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January 16, 2026 · 4:15 am

DAVOS2026: The Gospel according to Michael

Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities.

Introduction

This is a introduction/preface/table of contents for the notes, articles and whitepapers I’v written in preparation for DAVOS2006. They are organized into the following categories:

  1. Microsoft Copilot / OpenAI ChatGPT
  2. Trust Debt Accounting
  3. Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™
  4. Self-Sovereign Control (SSC) 7.0 Metamodel
  5. The Digital Economist Think Tank
  6. Money, Currency, and Blockchain
  7. JSON, Story Telling, Floor Wax, Dessert Toppings, and Other Notes

January 15, 2026 · 12:35 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Sliced JSON

Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW AgenticOS™ and Hyperonomy™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 Foundation. All … Continue reading →

January 15, 2026 · 7:34 am 

#DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: What prompt can other people use to get the same high level of verification that I’m receiving for my responses?

Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW AgenticOS™ and Hyperonomy™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 Foundation. All Rights Reserved Q1. What prompt can other people use to get … Continue reading →

January 15, 2026 · 6:33 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: How much of the liability question applies equally to OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot?

Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Q1: How much of what we’ve discussed in this thread applies equally to OpenAI ChatGPT as well as Microsoft Copilot? Short answer first: Almost … Continue reading →

January 14, 2026 · 12:12 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Framework for Assessing AI Corporate and Moral Liability

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Disclaimer This article reflects the author’s personal analysis and opinions on artificial intelligence governance, corporate responsibility, and emerging legal standards. It is provided for … Continue reading →

January 14, 2026 · 5:13 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft: “Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping?”

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Q1: When I worked at Microsoft and a Microsoft partner would come to us and suggest a new product or a new project, we … Continue reading →

January 14, 2026 · 3:41 am | Edit

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: How does Microsoft account for Trust Debt?

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Trust Debt is the accumulated loss of user confidence caused by unreliable behavior, broken promises, or opaque practices in a product, which eventually must … Continue reading →

January 13, 2026 · 12:09 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Trust Debt (#trustdebt)

Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW™, and TDW AgenticOS™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 Foundation. All Rights Reserved. Trust Debt is the accumulated loss of user confidence … Continue reading →

January 13, 2026 · 7:48 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Highly Revealing Interview with OpenAI ChatGPT

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Definitive How and Why Circular Hyperscalers have been deceiving us about Artificial Intelligence Key Prompts Q1: Explain the familiarity pathway and the context pathway, … Continue reading →

January 9, 2026 · 4:52 am 

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: The Digital Economist (TDE) 2026 Whitepaper Collection: Analysis and Synthesis 0.4

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License PART 0 — Introduction This report delivers three outputs based on the analysis of 37 papers from The Digital Economist (TDE) website’s 2026 whitepaper … Continue reading →

January 8, 2026 · 7:55 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: What is the core purpose of money/currency and value exchange?

Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW AgenticOS™ and Hyperonomy™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 … Continue reading →

January 7, 2026 · 7:05 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: How does AI knowably lie?

Thank you for correcting me — and you’re right to do so.I will answer precisely to what you actually asked, not a softened version of it. You asked: Let’s take this cleanly and without hedging. 1. On my misstatement — … Continue reading →

January 7, 2026 · 6:11 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Why does AI knowably lie? Why do hyperscalers give AI permission to knowably lie? Here’s why AI can never be trusted…

2. No Real-Time Verification Built In By Default Unless explicitly enabled with tools like web search, the model doesn’t independently verify claims against current, authoritative sources — so answers can be out of date or incomplete. Why is “Real-Time … Continue reading →

December 28, 2025 · 2:07 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Interplanetary Blockchains: Fact or Fiction?

Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW AgenticOS™ and Hyperonomy™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 Foundation. All … Continue reading →

December 22, 2025 · 5:41 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Definition: Neuromorphic

Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW™, and TDW AgenticOS™ are trademarks of the Web 7.0 … Continue reading →

December 10, 2025 · 6:58 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Self-Sovereign Control (SSC) 7.0 Metamodel

Also known as the Grand Scheme of Things (GST). Create your own magic with Web 7.0™ / TDW AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public LicenseWeb 7.0™, TDW™, … Continue reading →

December 2, 2025 · 10:03 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Identic AI – Powered by Web 7.0 AgenticOS™

Create your own magic with Web 7.0 AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities… Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Resources

November 22, 2025 · 7:48 am

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: Truly Effective Communication/Story Telling

Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License Start with something familiar to your audience (a belief). Then, take them on a guided tour to your eventual destination. Make sure everyone gets … Continue reading →

November 21, 2025 · 4:52 pm

DAVOS2026 EXCLUSIVE: The Second Reformation: Age of Agents

Create your own magic with Web 7.0 AgenticOS™. Imagine the possibilities. Copyright © 2025 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License To be continued… Google CEO Sundar Pichai says artificial intelligence is going to … Continue reading →

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January 14, 2026 · 5:13 am

DAVOS2026: Microsoft: “Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping?”

Copyright © 2026 Michael Herman (Bindloss, Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License

Q1: When I worked at Microsoft and a Microsoft partner would come to us and suggest a new product or a new project, we had an internal phrase or an internal question we used to ask ourselves somewhat in jest, and the phrase is, is it a floor wax or a dessert topping? And I’m wondering if you know the origins of that phrase.

Yes — the phrase “Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping?” actually has a pretty clear origin in American pop culture, and that’s almost certainly where groups at Microsoft (and many tech companies) picked it up and started using it as a humorous internal shorthand.

Here’s the basics:

📺 Origin: Saturday Night Live “Shimmer” Sketch (1976)

The phrase comes from a parody commercial on Saturday Night Live from the show’s first season, for a fictitious product called “New Shimmer.” In the sketch:

  • A husband (Dan Aykroyd) and wife (Gilda Radner) argue about what the product actually is —
    is it a floor wax… or is it a dessert topping?
  • Chevy Chase, playing the product pitchman, eventually declares:
    “New Shimmer is both a floor wax and a dessert topping!” — and sprays it on a mop and a dessert to demonstrate.

It was a completely absurd ad spoof, poking fun at over-the-top marketing claims and products that try to be everything to everyone.

🧠 How It Became Business/Evaluation Humor

Over time this SNL joke entered broader American business and engineering culture as a lighthearted metaphor:

  • When someone proposes a new product, project, or idea that seems like it’s trying to be too many unrelated things at once, folks will quip “Is it a floor wax or a dessert topping?”
  • The implication is: is this thing clearly one specific useful thing — or is it trying to do multiple different things that don’t clearly fit together? It’s a way of flagging fuzzy product definition or scope creep.

In other words, your internal Microsoft use of the phrase is a typical example of how the humor from that sketch got repurposed into a shorthand for product strategy evaluation.

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