The NextNet + district0x – Dusk of Dark Dawn of Light

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SYNERGY

The NextNet is a project currently in development, there is synergy between it and district0x. This a proposal to merge the two projects.

There are congruent utilities, congruent ramifications, and congruent underlying infrastructures between the NextNet and district0x. Herewith is a summary of the NextNet project. The prime congruency between the NextNet and district0x is that each effectively functions as decentralized social networks, TRUE social networks that are not centralized.

The following is a description of the NextNet project; Part One of a series titled A Vision of the Future, its working title is: The Killer App of the Internet (revision 5)

THE AUDACITY

To save the world.

SUMMARY – OR, EFFICIENCY

The NextNet is designed to transition the world from being brought to heel, to healing. The problem with the old-world aggregate system is global inefficiency and resistance to increasing efficiency – inefficient systems are interconnected to inefficient systems, compounding inefficiency. The NextNet deigns to supplant the old-world aggregate system with a unified aggregate system designed for the unification of the freedoms, the wills, and the expressions of people, academia, politics, and government.

Global inefficiency is resolved by providing the tool that interconnects increasingly efficient systems – compounding efficiency – while reducing the need to recover advancements. Recovering advancements is akin to every individual having to run the same mile. Rather, the scheme on the NextNet is that every individual runs a subsequent mile, thus advancing distance much further. The NextNet exists at the precipice of advancement.

Global cohesion of advancements can exist within a unifying new-world paradigm. The new-world paradigm is → evolution: the facilitation of flow/workflow, the compounding of efficiency, the growth of utility, the adaptation to wills, and the adaptation to circumstances. The new-world paradigm is embodied by the NextNet. It is the attempt of this discussion to describe this new-world paradigm, its ramifications, and some utility.

The NextNet is a decentralized aggregate of interconnecting systems. Systems on the NextNet interconnect, almost like a structure of interconnecting building blocks… except, a structure of building blocks is spatially constrained and every block can only be part of one structure at a time.

The aggregate system of the NextNet is globally cohesive, interconnected into a singular whole. On the NextNet, the interconnecting systems are not spatially constrained; all systems on the NextNet functionally exist where invoked. This allows for the evolution of systems on the NextNet – evolution of systems through the facilitation of flow/workflow, the compounding of efficiency, the growth of utility, and the adaptation to wills and circumstances – while maintaining cohesion.

It is possible to tune systems toward efficiency as though evolving an engine. It is possible for discourse to grow into new branches of discourse. It is possible for systems to interconnect ad nauseam on a global network of systems. It is possible for cloud computations to exist on a global network of cloud computations. It is possible to globally – cohesively – adapt to circumstances. It is possible to capture progress and lock progress into a mutual system. Nobody should have to recreate someone else’s work (unless they want to), they shouldn’t have to unless necessary. It wastes time. It is possible to build a system without having to recreate the components that already exist, especially if the systems are not spatially constrained.

Evolution is achieved by supplanting systems with improved – often automated – versions.

For example: for decades, the ‘fill cup with soda’ system was manually operated upon. Now: there exists a soda machine that automates the ‘fill cup with soda’ system. This automated soda machine is a boon to the efficiency of the establishments that use the machine. However, there is a problem: the automated soda machine is spatially constrained. It can only exist within one establishment at a time. Where the ‘fill cup with soda’ system is used, the automated version automatically supplants the manual version.

If the automated soda machine could exist on the NextNet: it would only need to be created once, and would be used by all establishments without spatial constraint. The automatic system would supplant the manual system simultaneously for all establishments that use the ‘fill cup with soda’ system. All establishments that use the ‘fill cup with soda’ system would simultaneously and automatically evolve.

IMPETUS, RAMIFICATIONS, AND ANTICIPATION

There is to be a unified system for the wills and expressions of people, academia, politics, and government. The unifier is a tool which embodies the paradigm of evolution. The problem to be surmounted by the tool is a world fractured into inefficient interconnected systems. The result of a solution is a totally social world.

The NextNet is a singular tool designed to: reflect the wills and expressions of people, groups, and collectives of groups within base-reality; facilitate discourse, workflow, and information dissemination paradigms; be the basis for the easy construction of ‘cloud computation’ routines.

This is the tool that satisfies the need for base-reality to be congruent to the wills and expressions of people, groups, and collectives of groups. With respect to the power to correspond to the wills of people, groups, and collectives of groups: true freedom can exist and real-world circumstances can be subject to the wills of all. This is the singular tool that is able to reflect the wills and expressions between formerly disparate parts of society. The NextNet is a tool that is so useful that its existence mandates its use.

The old-world paradigm is → control: slight-of-hand and structured work without consideration for efficiency. The old-world paradigm lacks vigor and capacity to adapt. The world's social environment is subject to circumstances and rigid structures. The world's social environment should be able supersede circumstances through adaptation and correspondence between wills and base-reality. The new-world paradigm and the paradigm’s ramified tool – the NextNet – in whole and in parts adapts to circumstances. The Internet was the start of this process.

The Internet, as a medium, is like a room. Within the room is a Feng Shui of flow of data. The Internet is an aggregate of interconnected instances of software and hardware. Both software and hardware have a role in the organization, access, and amount of data on the Internet.

For ages, a problem has restrained people: discourse and information dissemination. Advancements plot a trend toward broader bandwidths, higher speeds, and longer distances. Antiquated tools were limited by their operating technologies, their mediums; however, while the Internet – as a tool and as a medium – exists at the precipice of dissemination’s known limit of bandwidth, speed, and travel distance. The Internet’s effectiveness at disseminating is not limited by its medium. The increasing complexity of the Internet is in lockstep to a proportionately contorting medium; software, more than hardware, forms the medium of the Internet. The technology to support rapid evolution of systems and utilities already exists.

When examining the evolution of discourse and information dissemination, it is possible to predict the next leap. Anticipate the leap and the means to compel the leap by following the trajectory of emergent trends, then by exploiting the trajectory through the creation of the means to compel the trajectory. There are shortcomings within the present paradigm that demolish congruency between systems and base-reality – these shortcomings limit the adaptability of the present aggregate system and limit the adaptability of the constituents of present the aggregate system. The limitations can be eschewed within the new-world paradigm.

What are discourse and information dissemination paradigms attracted to? Assuaging bandwidth, speed, and travel distance: there is another trend: it is the attraction toward better facilitation of discourse (especially with respect to workflow), better proliferation of information, more expansive socialization, and increasing transparency. These have, largely, been expressed on the Internet as social network centers.

The Internet has revealed the capacity to serve as a strong medium for socialization. For a social network to grow, it must be able to actuate cohesivity at many scales. While social network centers scale, they do not quickly adapt. They serve gimmicks while capitalizing on the propensity of discourse. The true power of socialization through the Internet has yet to be tapped. Social networks should be primarily useful rather than distracting. There is a need for a TRUE social network that quickly adapts to base-reality and to every granular need of the users. The NextNet is a tool that embraces adaptation and evolution and thereby sloughs off outmoded systems.

The NextNet is a tool that interconnects a TRUE social network, a social network that is not centralized. A social network where information is retrievable from – rather than from central places – the locations that have stored the information in redundancy.

The NextNet embodies a new information dissemination paradigm. A paradigm of: transparency, accountability, freedom of expression, and coherent discourse with respect to information’s integrity, credibility, and legitimacy.

Most activities on the NextNet are non-anonymous and transparent. This is the ultimate conclusion to social networking.

It’s time to build the ultimate global decentralized tool: to build the tool for the fluid expression of wills; to build the tool for perpetual facilitated discourse; to build the tool for amplified, cohesive, and efficient flow/workflow¹; to build the tool for easy-to-construct cloud computations; to build the tool that facilitates flow/workflow through adaptable systems.

¹ Amplified flow/workflow is the sum of congruent flows/workflows. Cohesive flow/workflow is the collective interoperations of components of flow/workflow. Efficient flow/workflow is the harnessing of flow/workflow with predilection for efficiency.

The NextNet is able to adapt to the wills of its users; the ramifications of users taking an active role in the adaptation, evolution, and functionality of systems and tools are without boundary. Users are the eyes, hands, and brains for the evolution of the NextNet. The usefulness of software is frequently – purposely – marred. The NextNet is a tool that is held by the hands of the users and is given function by the users. Functionality, adaptation, and evolution will not be marred. The NextNet is perpetually adapting to the wills of its users, to real-world circumstances, and toward efficiency. The NextNet is subject to – via the users – a perpetual pursuit of adaptation and evolution. The NextNet is perpetually – coherently – growing in size, complexity, and utility.

FOUR PRIMARY UTILITIES ARE…

•…Democracy

The NextNet will be able to retain votes for a democracy – within groups and governments – to represent the wills of people. Democracy is representation which compels a group to enjoin itself.

•…Discourse

Discourse is for users, groups, and collectives of groups to express with respect to anything.

On the level of users: discourse, work-related discourse, and workflow are unified and facilitated with respect to a ‘universal productivity’ paradigm (which will be described in detail within a subsequent discussion). The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm scales from the endeavors of users, to the endeavors of groups, and to the endeavors of collectives of groups.

•…Workflow

This is the global network of automations and facilitations of workflow. This is a precursor to the increasing and the compounding of efficiency of the NextNet. Workflow courses through ‘work routines’.

‘Work routines’ are systems through which work flows to actuate the operations of work, like: a water wheel churned by the flow water. With the automation and facilitation of workflow through ‘work routines’ comes increased efficiency; network-wide efficiency compounds on a network of increasingly efficient systems of ‘work routines’. Many ‘work routines’ can be automated if there are mutual and interconnectable data systems.

Where workflow is not fully automated: the NextNet facilitates the workflow for users or groups to engage with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm. When workflow courses through users or groups, those users or groups become the operators unto the workflow.

•…Computation

On the NextNet: a ‘cloud computation’ system – as a routine – interconnects to an assortment of computational routines; the NextNet retains a network of computational routines. Computations on the NextNet can interconnect ad nauseum, allowing for the construction of ‘cloud computations’. Systems of ‘cloud computations’ are automations of flow( of computations)/workflow where routines operate unto the flow( of computations)/workflow. ‘Cloud computations’ on the NextNet can interconnect with data systems, permitting the perpetual construction and interpretation of data sets.

CONTIGUOUS WHOLES AND SYSTEMS

Contiguous wholes are aggregate things. They are aggregates of interconnected constituent wholes. Constituent wholes are each a contiguous whole. Every thing is a whole. Wholes – things – can contain other wholes and can be constituent to other wholes. A whole can be solid, or ephemeral, or abstract, or cognitive etc. Regardless of the substance of a whole, the whole is – within base-reality – ultimately part of the undivided universe where boundaries do not exist.

Systems within the NextNet are…

•…Wholes. Systems are contiguous – aggregate – wholes.

•…Tools.

•…Utilities.

•…Modular. Systems retain interconnectable counterparts. Systems can interconnect with systems. Systems can interconnect with data (datums exist as relatively inert systems). And data can interconnect with data.

•…Multifarious. A system functionally invokes an assortment of systems. This means that systems essentially contain systems. Systems are composed by internally interconnecting systems; to interconnect systems is to compose a system. Interconnections within a system form the contiguous – aggregate – whole of the system. Data can be composed by internally interconnecting data; data exists within data systems.

•…Multilocational. Systems functionally exists where invoked. This means that a system can essentially be – simultaneously – constituent to an assortment of overlying systems.

•…Routines. Routines are the routes that comprise systems; the routines of systems are the substrate for flow/workflow to course through. Routines are like conduits retaining the flow of electricity; or, a channel retaining the flow of water. Routines are cyclical – recurring – operations. Routines define the behaviors of systems.

•…Operators. Operators perform operations unto flow/workflow through cyclical – recurring – routines. An operator is like a system of a turbine within a dam which performs an operation unto the flow of water. The effect – routine – of the operation of the system of the turbine is the splitting of flow from purely kinetic flow into: less kinetic flow and electrical flow.

Systems, being multilocational, are invoked by overlying systems. Aggregates of interconnecting systems form overlying systems. Overlying systems operate as singular systems, as singular units.

A car – as a singular unit, as a singular system – is an overlying system. The aggregate of interconnecting systems within the car constitutes the overlying system of the car. Systems within the car operate independently of the overlying system of the car. Flow churns the operations of the systems of the car which churn the operations of the overlying system of the car. The NextNet is a system which can adapt to and react to the world as a singular unit.

FLOW

Composite dance routines are multifarious: a composite dance routine can invoke an assortment of dance routines to form the composite dance routine. Dance routines are multilocational: a dance routine can be invoked by an assortment of composite dance routines, simultaneously.

A dance routine, being multilocational, can be invoked by an assortment of dancers simultaneously. A dancer is multifarious: a dancer can invoke an assortment of dance routines to form a composite dance routine. A dancer is not multilocational; a dancer can only exist within a singular choreography.

Choreographies are multifarious: a choreography can invoke an assortment of dancers. Choreographies are multilocational: a choreography can be invoked by an assortment of venues simultaneously.

When a choreography is initiated: the fluid motion of dancers is churned by the motion of dance routines; flow courses through dance routines and dancers. Dancers flow through and churn the operations – the routines – of a choreography. A choreography internally interconnects dancers. Dancers are systems.

All components of a choreography are modular, including the choreography itself because a choreography can be performed within an assortment of venues. Also, the audience of a choreography is modular because there is support within a venue for an assortment of audiences, not just one audience.

Flow is motion within systems; systems embody vigor. The flow of dancers, energy, power, force, data, work, discourse, and computations are all equate-able and kinetic – each flow through the form of contiguous – aggregate – systems. The kinetic nature of flow moves stuff, like: a river moving flotsam. The kinetic nature of flow churns operations; the force of flow is a compeller of motion and a compeller of the operations of systems like water churning a turbine; systems churn – operate – through the force of flow. The force of flow is universal.

Workflow is flow. ‘Workflow’ implies that the ‘flow’ pertains to the operations of ‘work’. Work is an operation unto workflow. Work is a broad concept, from the mechanical sense of work, to the sense of a tool performing work, to the sense of work performed by workers within a workforce.

The behaviors of performed work – operations of systems – are essentially predetermined.

The behaviors of systems are, in themselves, minute systems of ‘cause then effect’. ‘Cause then effect’ is a universal system. ‘Cause then effect’ occurs due to the force of flow. Systems receive flow as impetus to react to the flow. Effects – reactions – become the causes for subsequent effects. Flow courses through impetus, then reaction, then impetus. Sequences of systems of ‘cause then effect’ behave like sequences of toppling dominoes.

Flow is the essence of a continuity between happenings. Flow churns the operations of interconnected systems.

ORGANISMS, PARADIGMS, SYSTEMS, AND AGENTS

Organisms, paradigms, and systems (…and utilities and operators and dancers and choreographers and environments and processors….) are all agents. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an agent is: “one that acts or exerts power"; "something that produces or is capable of producing an effect"; "an active or efficient cause"; "a computer application designed to automate certain tasks". These are all true within the NextNet.

Organisms are spatially constrained, like a dancer. Internally, organisms are interconnecting cascades of organisms. Organisms, within a cascade, are within organisms; organisms operate as the environments of other – smaller – organisms. Environments are overlying systems. Organisms are able to – with great congruency with flow – react to and adapt to circumstances and to their environment. They are able to exert onto their environment a preference for being.

Unlike organisms: systems and paradigms, on the NextNet, are without spatial constraint. Systems and paradigms should be like agents that behave and adapt like organisms.

Paradigms are frameworks for behaviors and are frameworks from which systems generate. The old-world paradigm capitalizes upon inefficiency to the benefit of few and to the detriment of many. The systems that the old-world paradigm generate are inefficient – seemingly by design; they are quite inert, rarely adapt, and they cause flow to be diverted into the environment and caches.

The world over, over time: inert – interconnecting – systems have shaped what we understand to be our reality. Whatever the predicament, it is the result of every system of ‘cause then effect’ leading up to the predicament. The aggregate system of the world whirrs in inefficiency. The predilection of the aggregate system of the world does not foster adaptation toward potential routes of greater efficiency and – in fact – frequently squashes potential routes of greater efficiency. The inefficiency of the aggregate system of the world interconnects inefficient systems, compounding inefficiency from top to bottom. The current aggregate system of the world is a rigid – inert – structure, rather than an adaptable system that behaves like an organism.

Systems on the NextNet embody the predilection to adapt to circumstances and to the environment of base-reality, like: organisms. To treat systems as inert structures is to deny the fluid and ever-changing reality of nature. The NextNet – through the use of its primary utilities and through its predilection for adaptation and evolution – compels the behaviors, expressions, and ramifications of the new-world paradigm. The NextNet embodies the new-world paradigm.

Systems should retain rigor and the capacity to adapt to circumstances and evolve. Systems should be tools for the well-being and the creative expression of people. Systems should facilitate harmonious behavior.

THE SHIFT TOWARD EFFICIENCY

Orchestras are systems comprised of persons (agents) and systems; there are persons within an orchestra and there are systems that are invoked by the persons to facilitate the performance of various operations – like: the interpretation of sheet-music. Persons in an orchestra and their invoked systems facilitate flow resulting in harmonious music.

The NextNet adapts to circumstances and the will of its users akin to music adapting to the desires of audiences – the desired outcome of the NextNet is efficiency. The attraction to harmony by an audience is akin to the attraction to harmony within adaptations toward efficiency. Music is adaptable through modular instrumentation, modular musicians, modular compositions, modular tones, modular rhythms… each can be supplanted. Adapting toward greater efficiency is achieved by supplanting lesser-harmonious components with greater-harmonious components. Flow strums the chords of harmonious – efficient – systems.

Flow/workflow courses through systems as a force of nature; flow/workflow courses through routines of relatively low resistance. Where routines of lesser resistance are anticipated it should be easy and commonplace to adapt systems toward the routines of lesser resistance – toward greater efficiency. Anticipated routines of lesser resistance should be exploited; it is possible to continuously adapt systems toward increasing efficiency of flow/workflow.

Imagine a grass field with sidewalks. The sidewalks indicate routes for flow. The sidewalks constitute a system for flow. Agents endowed with locomotion flow through the routes of the system of sidewalks; however, the agents also locomote on the grass. Over time: the grass deteriorates where a path of lesser resistance exists. It would be shrewd to use the revealed path to adapt the system of sidewalks toward more efficient flow.

Imagine – instead – that before any sidewalks are lain: the grass field was reified into an abstract form on a computer. To determine the routes of least resistance: the computer performs a simulation of the flow of agents through the grass field. After the simulation, the real field’s system of sidewalks is formed to correspond to the simulation – the real field is lain with sidewalks that correspond to the determined routes of least resistance.

Flow/workflow can course through abstract forms. Many systems of flow/workflow have both a material – or, immaterial – form and an abstract form. The correspondence between the two forms should represent truths about their flow/workflow. To alter the routine of one form should ideally, with some latency, alter the routine of the other form. This can apply to any domain of routines, for instance: a workplace. The abstract form of a workplace can be used to conduct – facilitate – the workflow of the workplace and to increase the efficiency of the workplace.

Step out of a domain, into the domain’s external environment – a new domain. Step out of new domains enough times and tap your head against the boundary of self-contained cognizance. In this environment, imagine that you can see the true form of anything. Imagine a force within this environment. Solidify this force into a form, a whole. Notice that you can transform the form of this whole and while doing so you notice a churning force within the whole. You notice that the churning force hums when the form facilitates efficient flow and grinds when the form facilitates inefficient flow. As you transform the form: you realize that focusing and altering the flow of force must be done with elegance. When the churning force hums: it is tuned to efficiency. After tuning the entirety of the whole toward efficiency, you notice that it resembles its initial form, but with added elegance.

To maximize the efficiency of flow, systems must be tuned toward efficiency. The total efficiency of a system should be tunable through iterations of improved systems that supplant their outmoded lineage. Systems on the NextNet can be supplanted by improved systems that conduct – facilitate – more efficient flow. This is adaptation and evolution.

‘PERCEPTION, THEN INTERPRETATION, THEN TRANSMISSION’

‘Perception, then interpretation², then transmission’ is a corollary to the universal system of ‘cause then effect’. This system itself – and each component of this system – is a system of ‘cause then effect’. (Causes transform into effects within each component of the system; and, effects transform into causes within the boundaries between the components of the system. Exactly where transformations occur within components and boundaries is often impossible to discern.) This system applies to all systems. This system is the key to modular – interconnectable – systems and modular – interconnectable – computations.

² Within this discussion: interpretation and information³ are synonymous. Interpretation and information are simultaneously the operation of behavior/implication routines and the compeller of the operation of behavior/implication routines. The result of the operation of behavior/implication routines is effectively pre-determined within systems. There are gaps that exist between the ‘external’ and the ‘subjective reaction, through behavior, to – or, the subjective understanding, through implication, of – the external’. These gaps are arced by the flow of interpretation and information through behavior (leading to subjective reaction), or by implication (leading to subjective understanding). The energy, or flow, of an arc is kinetic. The kinetic flow of interpretation and information powers the operation of behavior/implication routines. A result is the final product of interpretation and information. A result is transmittable.

³ Within this discussion: data and information are nearly synonymous. Arguably, everything is data and everything is information. However – within this discussion – data is: unperceived. And, information is: perceived data with a subjective understanding as arced by implication. Even within this discussion, the distinction is largely irrelevant because all data on the NextNet is, in some manner, perceived. The kinetic flow of information compels data to transform from ‘not understood’ into ‘subjectively understood’. Data transforming into information is like food combusting into the locomotion of an organism. Data is like wood, and information is like the wood combusting into fire.

Flow/workflow is subject to the system of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’. Within a system, perception retrieves input – flow/workflow – from a transmission. Then the input is interpreted by the system. Then the interpretation is routed to the next recipient as a transmission. Then the next recipient’s perception retrieves input – flow/workflow – anew from the transmission. And so on. Transmissions – results of interpretations – are routed to next recipients as conducted – facilitated – by overlying systems. Transmissions are simultaneously the effect of one system and the cause for another system.

Routed transmissions – results of interpretations – are effects. And, received transmissions are causes. Recipients of transmissions are recipients of causes, which were formerly effects. Systems receive causes for subsequent effects. Transmissions route – course – like tossed hot potatoes; next recipients receive hot potatoes as transmissions.

There is no true end or beginning to the operation of this system, this routine – only cycles. Systems do not need to know why they are operating, they only perceive, then interpret, then transmit. Systems are restricted to: perceptions of flow/workflow, then interpretations of the flow/workflow (or, operations unto the flow), then routing the resulting flow/workflow as transmissions.

It’s systems of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’ throughout nature – all the way up and all the way down. And so it is on the NextNet.

TOOLS

Tools are systems of ‘cause then effect’. Tools are systems of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’. Tools conduct – facilitate – focus of flow/workflow through routines. Tools receive flow/workflow, then interpret – or, operate upon – the flow/workflow, then route flow/workflow anew. A tool often requires an operator (…agent, environment, worker, computer…) to compel operations. Operations of a tool can be simple, like: force focuses here.

Imagine a hammer. Input into the hammer imbues the hammer with momentum, which continues until the input stops. Input stops when the force of the hammer transfers outward due to striking an object. The overlying system of a tool describes more fully the application of the tool. Within the system overlying the hammer, it can be seen that the hammer is part of a ‘hammer, nail, and board’ system. Flow/workflow courses from one system to another, from one focused operation to another focused operation.

Tools facilitate – and, at times, automate – flow/workflow. Systems conduct – facilitate – flow/workflow through inner interconnections. To harness flow/workflow with focus and with efficiency is a principle function of the NextNet – or, of any tool. The NextNet harnesses flow/workflow through: an adaptable overlying system that retains adaptable components; correspondence to real-world counterparts. With correspondence between the abstract systems of the NextNet and base-reality: efficiency within the NextNet corresponds to the reality of the efficiency. The mechanism of correspondence often requires manual operation.

Imagine a parabolic mirror which focuses and facilitates workflow. Reify an abstract system of the parabolic mirror. Within the abstract system it is apparent that the parabolic mirror doesn’t focus workflow very well and it radiates a lot of workflow as inefficiency. Loss of workflow is the inefficiency of a tool. To achieve desired efficacy: the parabolic mirror adapts toward a smaller resulting focal point of workflow and toward lesser radiation of workflow.

With an abstract system and correspondence to its real-world counterpart: the abstract system adapts toward the desired efficacy. And, the real-world counterpart of the abstract system, through correspondence, also adapts toward the desired efficacy.

Systems – tools – can be as complex as necessary while remaining partially and wholly adaptable. With the existence of abstract systems, it becomes possible to manifest adaptations within real-world counterparts if the real-world counterparts are compelled to correspond to the abstract systems. This is the adaptation – evolution – of tools. Some real-world counterparts automatically correspond to their abstract systems because they are one and the same.

ADAPTATION

Often: representations on the NextNet will simultaneously be the abstract system and the real-world counterpart. With absolute congruency: many abstract systems on the NextNet will directly correspond to the truth of their own systems. For example: a system that represents a routine exchange of data: the representation of the exchange of data is literally the same as the reality of the exchange of the data, there is no need for two happenings and retentions to exist. There is a one-to-one correspondence with these types of systems.

Efficiency requires adaptable systems that are not rigidly structured. An organism is not rigidly structured. Organisms and the interactions of organisms – internally and externally – are fluid, rather than mechanical. Reality is a fluid operation, not a structure.

The NextNet is akin to an aggregate organism adapting to circumstances; fracture the aggregate organism-like-system of the NextNet and observe the resulting volley of organism-like-systems. These systems each adapt, like: organisms. The aggregate of these systems – the NextNet – adapts, like: an organism. It is only within a paradigm shift – and within a singular tool that embodies the new paradigm of the shift – that systems can be wholly efficient, interconnected, and congruent with real-world circumstances, like: the congruency of an aggregate being, the congruency of that being’s interactions with other beings, and the congruency between the being and its circumstances in base reality – or, the environment. Rigid control is not necessary for an aggregate system to have interconnecting parts. Efficient systems can be designed to interconnect – which is, rather than rigid control, a protocol for receiving and transmitting flow.

A magnet can be any shape yet is able to attract any other magnet of any shape. Imagine that magnets are multifarious and multilocational – reified, this is the general – abstract – form of the NextNet. This abstract form is the means for the NextNet to grow, react, adapt, and evolve.

To quickly react to stimulus and to quickly adapt to circumstance is an evolutionary advantage. Cohesive reaction and adaptation by groups scales in difficulty as groups grow in size. Frequently: within today's discourse and workflow paradigms, productivity is left up to the individual which bottlenecks the overall efficiency of groups – this is eschewed with a tool that embodies the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm for the discourse and workflow of individuals and groups. Without the tool and within large groups in particular: workflow is impossible to exploit globally.

On the NextNet, on the level of users: synergy between discourse, workflow, users, groups, and collectives of groups is achieved via the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm. The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm conducts – facilitates – the flow of discourse and the flow of work. A mutual tool for discourse and workflow conducts – facilitates – synergy. Awareness of identified and anticipated routines of workflow makes possible the support of workflow through workflow systems which facilitate and automate the routines of workflow for users, groups, collectives of groups, and systems. Outmoded workflow systems can be supplanted – adapted – evolved.

Systems adapt and grow by retaining current systems while supplanting outmoded systems with current systems. Supplanting outmoded systems with current systems is automatic. The development – construction – of new systems is not automatic – or, at least is not conceptually.

A subsequent implementation of a system retains some number of inner interconnections from its outmoded lineage – this is necessary to maintain cohesion. Wherever a system is invoked, the most recent iteration of the system is the invoked system. This is the ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm.

The ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm applies to all data and systems, including utilities (as systems and as tools). Utilities can evolve and adapt, just like systems, just like tools, just like routines for flow/workflow. Improved versions of utilities supplant outmoded versions. Interpreters of data are utilities. There is a decoupling between data and interpreters of data so that: outmoded data can be automatically supplanted with current versions of the data; outmoded interpreters of data can be automatically supplanted with current versions of interpreters. This decoupling is possible due to the modular nature of the NextNet. Data can perpetually change and grow in size and complexity via supplanting data. Interpreters of data can perpetually evolve. Presently: systems aren't built to seamlessly evolve like organic life.

Systems of flow/workflow are able to evolve and adapt. As beings with the capacity to evolved and adapt our systems to our preference and to our circumstances: there exists the power to support the flow/workflow of the systems through improvements. Tools – systems – harness efficiency by giving to the users the power to adapt the systems of flow/workflow. Tools are best developed by the users of the tools and systems. Users are aggregates of eyes, hands, and brains and they compel the adaptation and evolution of tools and systems. Users, in anticipating the efficacy of tools, are in the best position to adapt the tools.

The NextNet is a tool – a system – that facilitates flow through its network. In particular: flow of data, flow of discourse, flow of work, and flow of computations. Organisms evolve and adapt to circumstances with respect to pre-determined behavior routines. The NextNet is a tool that facilitates group behavior more akin to the behavior of organisms, rather than being subject to brutalist-monolithic – rigid – structures. An evolving and adapting network is not a rigid structure.

Parse the word 'network' into 'net work'. ‘Net work’ is work represented, or engaged, on a net. The NextNet is the net. The NextNet conducts – facilitates – ‘net work’. The NextNet retains routines that correspond to the flow of ‘net work’. On the NextNet: systems of ‘net work’ are interconnectable. ‘Net work’ on the NextNet interconnects into a cohesive whole which operates in whole and in parts. If instances of ‘net work’ are automated, then – after – there will be an increase in the overall efficiency of the NextNet. The NextNet compounds efficiency through its network of increasingly efficient instances of ‘net work’.

Presently: the global network of systems is essentially gridlocked. Presently: systems – being multifarious and multilocational and within the old-world paradigm – compound inefficiency to a nearly insurmountable degree. Think of the multitude of current dominant systems that do not correspond to the fluid nature of growth and adaptation; rather, they correspond to control over land regions, to control over people, and to control over systems.

Presently: control is the paradigm from which dominant systems are built; control is the paradigm that interconnects the dominant systems on the global network of systems. While control remains more important than harmony, fluidity, adaptation, and evolution there will be a cacophony of resulting issues. Control is rigid. With available tools: control is not necessary. With the tools available now: control is an outdated paradigm. Cohesive coordination of systems is achievable through the NextNet, rather than through the brute force of rigid control. Control is not graceful.

Within the new-world paradigm: without rigid control and with grace: systems seamlessly adapt to real-world circumstances and toward efficiency; however, within the old-world paradigm: the iterations of adaptations are resisted; the form of society conforms to rigid – pre-existing – control-structures; the global network of systems conforms to rigid – pre-existing – control-structures; the systems cannot accommodate real-world circumstances without gaudy and inefficient forms; the systems frequently correspond to fabrications that do not exist within base-reality – these fabrications are upheld above all-else, even above the survival of species’.

THE KEYSTONE

Systems can be interconnectable if they are designed to be interconnectable. A system, being multifarious, can internally interconnect an assortment of systems. A system, being multilocational, can to be constituent to an assortment of systems. Flow is a universal force; flow courses through systems and compels the operations of systems. The total efficiency of the NextNet must be tunable. Systems must adapt. And utilities (as systems) must grow.

THE NEXTNET

The NextNet is in parts and/or in whole…

•…Flow

Flow is a universal force which compels cause and effect and the operations of systems.

•…Retrievable

All data within the whole of the NextNet must be retrievable by users and systems.

•…Transparent

With transparency: it is difficult to alter data in a way that groups cannot see and interpret.

Efficiency and utility should generally be the focus of a tool, not necessarily cashflow. Transparency is the basis for a global effort toward increasing efficiency and growth of utility.

There is a need for pervasive transparency within a global system. The path toward a TRUE social network is pebbled with modicums of transparency; the bulk of data within the old-world paradigm is obfuscated from users. For pervasive transparency: there must be one rule: almost everything on the NextNet must be non-anonymous and transparent (at the very least, some democratic data will not be openly interpretable). The trend within social networking is a trend of increasing transparency. Non-transparency is a barrier that exists within the old-world paradigm. There's a lot of utility within total transparency!

For example: retrieving an invoice can be a game of Telephone Tag or I Hope They Respond To That Email. A seeker of an invoice should be able to go to the location of the invoice and download the invoice; yet, they cannot due to privacy (non-transparency) and incompatible – non-mutual – data systems. Any system or user of the NextNet should be able to retrieve and/or route data for any particular purpose. Why would a user need to retrieve an invoice at all if the underlying purpose for retrieval was systematized into an automated routine?

(Systems embody purposes when purposes exist as descriptions or as routines. Where a purpose exists as a description: the purpose should be a guideline for system-related activities. Where a purpose exists as a routine: the routine should actuate expressions congruent to the purpose. One method of deriving a purpose is to reverse engineer: examine routes of flow/workflow. Then: describe the purpose, or establish the purpose as a routine for flow/workflow.)

There are many potential systems that can capitalize upon transparency. For example: there are potential systems that could use, due to a mutual data need, a global – open – ledger. The ledger can retain records of transactions, no matter the type of currency or value representation. With an open ledger and with transparency as the bedrock: it is possible to accurately trace the routing of resources and to facilitate the distribution of resources for greatest benefit.

There exists the potential for private networks to interconnect with the NextNet.

•…Democratic

There is a need for an easy to use, multipurpose voting utility – a utility that can represent the wills of people. The voting utility operates upon votes as anonymous, as self-tallying, and as personally verifiable. Some democratic data will not be openly interpretable, but will be interpretable by the people that the data pertains to. This is a safety precaution due to a historical happening of voter data being used for nefarious or violent activities. Hence: democracy on the NextNet, on the level of people, is an anonymously engaged utility.

This is not just about democracy within governments, it's also about allowing the life of any group to be congruent with the sum of its constituents.

•…Productive

The practice and study of productivity is niche, and, unfortunately, ordinarily, only serves the individual. Groups exist that support constituent individuals in productivity; however, these groups are outnumbered by the groups that leave every constituent individual to their self. The reason for this is: it's hard to simultaneously work, to learn about organizing work, and to foster the habit of organizing work. Productivity programs are often an arcane utility (Outlook by Microsoft) and a subduing methodology (Getting Things Done by David Allen). And, most daunting of all: matching theory with application, and matching a system of workflow with the actual work that needs to be engaged.

On the level of users: the NextNet uses the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm which satisfies the productivity needs of users, groups, and collectives of groups. Discourse and workflow can coexist with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm, this is why Outlook can seamlessly and simultaneously function as a center for discourse and as a system of workflow. The NextNet conducts – facilitates – discourse and workflow with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm.

The form of the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm looks like all that is universal between all systems of productivity. Without going into detail within this discussion about methods of productivity, know that there is a ‘universal productivity’ paradigm that scales from the endeavor of users, to the endeavor of any group of any size, to the endeavor of collectives of groups. The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm unifies discourse, workflow, individuals (users), groups, and collectives of groups.

•…Discourse

Discourse within the NextNet occurs with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm; discourse is retained with respect to topics, expressions, data, systems, individuals, users, groups, collectives of groups, workflow… anything.

A type of discourse is peer-review. Presently: discourse over research is not organized in a way that supports a perpetual peer-review operation. Three primary reasons: 1. Money: research dissemination frequently deigns to be profitable for the disseminating entity; 2. Practicality: organizing ongoing discourse can be troublesome, especially when research is retained behind disparate paywalls; 3. Competition: resolutions to problems are frequently pursued by uncooperating teams. It would be a boon to the expansion of knowledge and the capacity to adapt to real-world circumstances if there existed the capacity to interact with the operation of peer-review as if it were a perpetual – global – discourse (and workflow). Perpetual discourse compels the evolution of discourse. It should be possible to observe the operation of peer-review as it grows in detail and into new hubs of thought. Imagine our evolving understanding of the universe to be a perpetual – globally interconnected – evolving discourse.

The categories of ‘people’ (‘peers’), ‘academia’, ‘politics’, ‘government’, and ‘democracy’ should coexist within the same domain of fair expression, because there is no reason they can’t (because they can!). The domain is discourse (and workflow). Discourse is the first step to informing collective behavior.

•…Modular

Systems and data on the NextNet are modular; systems and data on the NextNet are multifarious and multilocational, interconnectable, and not spatially constrained. Being multifarious: a system can invoke an assortment of systems. Being multilocational: a system can be constituent to an assortment of systems.

Interpretation of data must be modular. The NextNet decouples data and interpretation. To guide interpretation and for the sake of growing utility: data (for example: the data of an invoice) must declare the system used to write said data. A system that is used to write data will inform on the system to be used to read (interpret) the data. But this should not be strict. In this way, data remains open to improved – or, alternative – methods of interpretation. Decoupling allows data to be useful to a variety of systems.

This is the basis for a ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm, where the use of a system is automatically through the most recent version of the system. This is the basis for the adaptation and evolution of the NextNet and its constituent systems.

•…Redundant

With redundancy, it is difficult to alter data in a way that groups cannot see and interpret. The integrity of data is verifiable with redundancy. Further, data retained by a collective can outlast data retention on volatile media (such as compact disc).

•…Queryable

It is a problem that research is organized within non-mutual regions of the Internet. And, additionally, organized by specifications specific to each region. This problem causes queries into the entirety of research to be impossible. It is ironic that decentralization will be the path toward a queryable whole.

•…Qualitative

(Content is anything – including systems, data, and utilities – within the NextNet.)

Qualitative-multifarious content: content can be described by its declared assortment of qualities. The nature of content is described by its qualities; every quality describes an aspect of content; a quality describes content as having a particular quality. Content, being qualitative-multifarious, associates to every declared quality. There is no limit to the number of qualities content can declare. Content can be largely described by its menagerie of qualities.

Qualities are multilocational, meaning that a single quality can be declared by an assortment of content. Every quality – being multilocational – associates to all content that has declared the quality. Qualities are a means of organizing and filtering content.

•…Computable

The NextNet is the infrastructure for easy-to-coordinate cloud computations.

A routine is executed by the means necessary to complete the routine whether it is by a worker taking a stimulus (or, an input) as a priori to work and generate the output of the work, or a computer taking an input (or, a stimulus) as a priori to apply operations and generate the output of a computation.

By being modular systems, and by being multifarious and multilocational, routines functionally exist where invoked. This permits any routine to invoke an assortment of routines, and permits any routine to be invoked by an assortment of routines.

Construction of routines on the NextNet can be accomplished by linearly – functionally – stringing together routines. This is to be the basis for ad hoc – functional – cloud computations. Cloud computations can be anything from computations of sorting algorithms, to analysis of data, to, perhaps, the operations of operating systems.

Imagine a device that has all the world's computation potential and it comprises a screen, a meager processor, very limited memory, an input method, an enclosure, and Wi-Fi connectivity. Imagine the low cost of such a device and the potential for the device to access all systems and all computation routines on the NextNet.

•…Scalable

The construct of every system should err toward total scalability. For example: the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm facilitates productive discourse and work-related discourse at any scale. Systems can be large, small, complex, or simple while – ideally – retaining scalability. A system is scalable if the system’s construct retains a coherent form during dilation of the system.

•…Decentralized

Data is retained by the participants of the network of the tool. This adds to the integrity of the network’s data.

A decentralized network’s infrastructure is difficult to dismantle. +++ To envision a network infrastructure that does easily break and does not rely so heavily on the Internet’s current infrastructure: imagine a chipmunk chirping in the woods. Imagine that the chipmunk is within a distribution of other chipmunks, all chirping in the woods. Every chipmunk exists as the central node of its own local communication-sphere; every chipmunk subconsciously constructs its own portion of the contiguous network of overlapping communication-spheres. Communications are routed through this contiguous network; the information dissemination network of chipmunks routes information with minimal coordination.

The same is possible for the routing of data – or, information. An alternative information dissemination scheme that allows for information to get where it needs to go, with a minimum of coordination, can be constructed. For a new infrastructure that does not rely so heavily on the Internet: consider the overlap of Wi-Fi signals: imagine the scheme of the information dissemination network of chipmunks applied to densely people-populated areas.

Signed, H.C.E. (Here Comes Everybody)

[rongomaib]

Reads like a political thesis. Not a technical description of something people can build.

What specific problem does it solve? Why wild anyone use it?

On 7 Sep. 2017 8:44 am, "axiom-prime" notifications@github.com wrote:

SYNERGY

The NextNet is a project currently in development, there is synergy between it and district0x. This a proposal to merge the two projects.

There are congruent utilities, congruent ramifications, and congruent underlying infrastructures between the NextNet and district0x. Herewith is a summary of the NextNet project. The prime congruency between the NextNet and district0x is that each effectively functions as decentralized social networks, TRUE social networks that are not centralized.

The following is a description of the NextNet project; Part One of a series titled A Vision of the Future, its working title is: The Killer App of the Internet (revision 5)

THE AUDACITY

To save the world.

SUMMARY – OR, EFFICIENCY

The NextNet is designed to transition the world from being brought to heel, to healing. The problem with the old-world aggregate system is global inefficiency and resistance to increasing efficiency – inefficient systems are interconnected to inefficient systems, compounding inefficiency. The NextNet deigns to supplant the old-world aggregate system with a unified aggregate system designed for the unification of the freedoms, the wills, and the expressions of people, academia, politics, and government.

Global inefficiency is resolved by providing the tool that interconnects increasingly efficient systems – compounding efficiency – while reducing the need to recover advancements. Recovering advancements is akin to every individual having to run the same mile. Rather, the scheme on the NextNet is that every individual runs a subsequent mile, thus advancing distance much further. The NextNet exists at the precipice of advancement.

Global cohesion of advancements can exist within a unifying new-world paradigm. The new-world paradigm is → evolution: the facilitation of flow/workflow, the compounding of efficiency, the growth of utility, the adaptation to wills, and the adaptation to circumstances. The new-world paradigm is embodied by the NextNet. It is the attempt of this discussion to describe this new-world paradigm, its ramifications, and some utility.

The NextNet is a decentralized aggregate of interconnecting systems. Systems on the NextNet interconnect, almost like a structure of interconnecting building blocks… except, a structure of building blocks is spatially constrained and every block can only be part of one structure at a time.

The aggregate system of the NextNet is globally cohesive, interconnected into a singular whole. On the NextNet, the interconnecting systems are not spatially constrained; all systems on the NextNet functionally exist where invoked. This allows for the evolution of systems on the NextNet – evolution of systems through the facilitation of flow/workflow, the compounding of efficiency, the growth of utility, and the adaptation to wills and circumstances – while maintaining cohesion.

It is possible to tune systems toward efficiency as though evolving an engine. It is possible for discourse to grow into new branches of discourse. It is possible for systems to interconnect ad nauseam on a global network of systems. It is possible for cloud computations to exist on a global network of cloud computations. It is possible to globally – cohesively – adapt to circumstances. It is possible to capture progress and lock progress into a mutual system. Nobody should have to recreate someone else’s work (unless they want to), they shouldn’t have to unless necessary. It wastes time. It is possible to build a system without having to recreate the components that already exist, especially if the systems are not spatially constrained.

Evolution is achieved by supplanting systems with improved – often automated – versions.

For example: for decades, the ‘fill cup with soda’ system was manually operated upon. Now: there exists a soda machine that automates the ‘fill cup with soda’ system. This automated soda machine is a boon to the efficiency of the establishments that use the machine. However, there is a problem: the automated soda machine is spatially constrained. It can only exist within one establishment at a time. Where the ‘fill cup with soda’ system is used, the automated version automatically supplants the manual version.

If the automated soda machine could exist on the NextNet: it would only need to be created once, and would be used by all establishments without spatial constraint. The automatic system would supplant the manual system simultaneously for all establishments that use the ‘fill cup with soda’ system. All establishments that use the ‘fill cup with soda’ system would simultaneously and automatically evolve.

IMPETUS, RAMIFICATIONS, AND ANTICIPATION

There is to be a unified system for the wills and expressions of people, academia, politics, and government. The unifier is a tool which embodies the paradigm of evolution. The problem to be surmounted by the tool is a world fractured into inefficient interconnected systems. The result of a solution is a totally social world.

The NextNet is a singular tool designed to: reflect the wills and expressions of people, groups, and collectives of groups within base-reality; facilitate discourse, workflow, and information dissemination paradigms; be the basis for the easy construction of ‘cloud computation’ routines.

This is the tool that satisfies the need for base-reality to be congruent to the wills and expressions of people, groups, and collectives of groups. With respect to the power to correspond to the wills of people, groups, and collectives of groups: true freedom can exist and real-world circumstances can be subject to the wills of all. This is the singular tool that is able to reflect the wills and expressions between formerly disparate parts of society. The NextNet is a tool that is so useful that its existence mandates its use.

The old-world paradigm is → control: slight-of-hand and structured work without consideration for efficiency. The old-world paradigm lacks vigor and capacity to adapt. The world's social environment is subject to circumstances and rigid structures. The world's social environment should be able supersede circumstances through adaptation and correspondence between wills and base-reality. The new-world paradigm and the paradigm’s ramified tool – the NextNet – in whole and in parts adapts to circumstances. The Internet was the start of this process.

The Internet, as a medium, is like a room. Within the room is a Feng Shui of flow of data. The Internet is an aggregate of interconnected instances of software and hardware. Both software and hardware have a role in the organization, access, and amount of data on the Internet.

For ages, a problem has restrained people: discourse and information dissemination. Advancements plot a trend toward broader bandwidths, higher speeds, and longer distances. Antiquated tools were limited by their operating technologies, their mediums; however, while the Internet – as a tool and as a medium – exists at the precipice of dissemination’s known limit of bandwidth, speed, and travel distance. The Internet’s effectiveness at disseminating is not limited by its medium. The increasing complexity of the Internet is in lockstep to a proportionately contorting medium; software, more than hardware, forms the medium of the Internet. The technology to support rapid evolution of systems and utilities already exists.

When examining the evolution of discourse and information dissemination, it is possible to predict the next leap. Anticipate the leap and the means to compel the leap by following the trajectory of emergent trends, then by exploiting the trajectory through the creation of the means to compel the trajectory. There are shortcomings within the present paradigm that demolish congruency between systems and base-reality – these shortcomings limit the adaptability of the present aggregate system and limit the adaptability of the constituents of present the aggregate system. The limitations can be eschewed within the new-world paradigm.

What are discourse and information dissemination paradigms attracted to? Assuaging bandwidth, speed, and travel distance: there is another trend: it is the attraction toward better facilitation of discourse (especially with respect to workflow), better proliferation of information, more expansive socialization, and increasing transparency. These have, largely, been expressed on the Internet as social network centers.

The Internet has revealed the capacity to serve as a strong medium for socialization. For a social network to grow, it must be able to actuate cohesivity at many scales. While social network centers scale, they do not quickly adapt. They serve gimmicks while capitalizing on the propensity of discourse. The true power of socialization through the Internet has yet to be tapped. Social networks should be primarily useful rather than distracting. There is a need for a TRUE social network that quickly adapts to base-reality and to every granular need of the users. The NextNet is a tool that embraces adaptation and evolution and thereby sloughs off outmoded systems.

The NextNet is a tool that interconnects a TRUE social network, a social network that is not centralized. A social network where information is retrievable from – rather than from central places – the locations that have stored the information in redundancy.

The NextNet embodies a new information dissemination paradigm. A paradigm of: transparency, accountability, freedom of expression, and coherent discourse with respect to information’s integrity, credibility, and legitimacy.

Most activities on the NextNet are non-anonymous and transparent. This is the ultimate conclusion to social networking.

It’s time to build the ultimate global decentralized tool: to build the tool for the fluid expression of wills; to build the tool for perpetual facilitated discourse; to build the tool for amplified, cohesive, and efficient flow/workflow*; to build the tool for easy-to-construct cloud computations; to build the tool that facilitates flow/workflow through adaptable systems.

*Amplified flow/workflow is the sum of congruent flows/workflows. Cohesive flow/workflow is the collective interoperations of components of flow/workflow. Efficient flow/workflow is the harnessing of flow/workflow with predilection for efficiency.

The NextNet is able to adapt to the wills of its users; the ramifications of users taking an active role in the adaptation, evolution, and functionality of systems and tools are without boundary. Users are the eyes, hands, and brains for the evolution of the NextNet. The usefulness of software is frequently – purposely – marred. The NextNet is a tool that is held by the hands of the users and is given function by the users. Functionality, adaptation, and evolution will not be marred. The NextNet is perpetually adapting to the wills of its users, to real-world circumstances, and toward efficiency. The NextNet is subject to – via the users – a perpetual pursuit of adaptation and evolution. The NextNet is perpetually – coherently – growing in size, complexity, and utility.

FOUR PRIMARY UTILITIES ARE…

•…Democracy

The NextNet will be able to retain votes for a democracy – within groups and governments – to represent the wills of people. Democracy is representation which compels a group to enjoin itself.

•…Discourse

Discourse is for users, groups, and collectives of groups to express with respect to anything.

On the level of users: discourse, work-related discourse, and workflow are unified and facilitated with respect to a ‘universal productivity’ paradigm (which will be described in detail within a subsequent discussion). The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm scales from the endeavors of users, to the endeavors of groups, and to the endeavors of collectives of groups.

•…Workflow

This is the global network of automations and facilitations of workflow. This is a precursor to the increasing and the compounding of efficiency of the NextNet. Workflow courses through ‘work routines’.

‘Work routines’ are systems through which work flows to actuate the operations of work, like: a water wheel churned by the flow water. With the automation and facilitation of workflow through ‘work routines’ comes increased efficiency; network-wide efficiency compounds on a network of increasingly efficient systems of ‘work routines’. Many ‘work routines’ can be automated if there are mutual and interconnectable data systems.

Where workflow is not fully automated: the NextNet facilitates the workflow for users or groups to engage with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm. When workflow courses through users or groups, those users or groups become the operators unto the workflow.

•…Computation

On the NextNet: a ‘cloud computation’ system – as a routine – interconnects to an assortment of computational routines; the NextNet retains a network of computational routines. Computations on the NextNet can interconnect ad nauseum, allowing for the construction of ‘cloud computations’. Systems of ‘cloud computations’ are automations of flow( of computations)/workflow where routines operate unto the flow( of computations)/workflow. ‘Cloud computations’ on the NextNet can interconnect with data systems, permitting the perpetual construction and interpretation of data sets.

CONTIGUOUS WHOLES AND SYSTEMS

Contiguous wholes are aggregate things. They are aggregates of interconnected constituent wholes. Constituent wholes are each a contiguous whole. Every thing is a whole. Wholes – things – can contain other wholes and can be constituent to other wholes. A whole can be solid, or ephemeral, or abstract, or cognitive etc. Regardless of the substance of a whole, the whole is – within base-reality – ultimately part of the undivided universe where boundaries do not exist.

Systems within the NextNet are…

•…Wholes. Systems are contiguous – aggregate – wholes.

•…Tools.

•…Utilities.

•…Modular. Systems retain interconnectable counterparts. Systems can interconnect with systems. Systems can interconnect with data (datums exist as relatively inert systems). And data can interconnect with data.

•…Multifarious. A system functionally invokes an assortment of systems. This means that systems essentially contain systems. Systems are composed by internally interconnecting systems; to interconnect systems is to compose a system. Interconnections within a system form the contiguous – aggregate – whole of the system. Data can be composed by internally interconnecting data; data exists within data systems.

•…Multilocational. Systems functionally exists where invoked. This means that a system can essentially be – simultaneously – constituent to an assortment of overlying systems.

•…Routines. Routines are the routes that comprise systems; the routines of systems are the substrate for flow/workflow to course through. Routines are like conduits retaining the flow of electricity; or, a channel retaining the flow of water. Routines are cyclical – recurring – operations. Routines define the behaviors of systems.

•…Operators. Operators perform operations unto flow/workflow through cyclical – recurring – routines. An operator is like a system of a turbine within a dam which performs an operation unto the flow of water. The effect – routine – of the operation of the system of the turbine is the splitting of flow from purely kinetic flow into: less kinetic flow and electrical flow.

Systems, being multilocational, are invoked by overlying systems. Aggregates of interconnecting systems form overlying systems. Overlying systems operate as singular systems, as singular units.

A car – as a singular unit, as a singular system – is an overlying system. The aggregate of interconnecting systems within the car constitutes the overlying system of the car. Systems within the car operate independently of the overlying system of the car. Flow churns the operations of the systems of the car which churn the operations of the overlying system of the car. The NextNet is a system which can adapt to and react to the world as a singular unit.

FLOW

Composite dance routines are multifarious: a composite dance routine can invoke an assortment of dance routines to form the composite dance routine. Dance routines are multilocational: a dance routine can be invoked by an assortment of composite dance routines, simultaneously.

A dance routine, being multilocational, can be invoked by an assortment of dancers simultaneously. A dancer is multifarious: a dancer can invoke an assortment of dance routines to form a composite dance routine. A dancer is not multilocational; a dancer can only exist within a singular choreography.

Choreographies are multifarious: a choreography can invoke an assortment of dancers. Choreographies are multilocational: a choreography can be invoked by an assortment of venues simultaneously.

When a choreography is initiated: the fluid motion of dancers is churned by the motion of dance routines; flow courses through dance routines and dancers. Dancers flow through and churn the operations – the routines – of a choreography. A choreography internally interconnects dancers. Dancers are systems.

All components of a choreography are modular, including the choreography itself because a choreography can be performed within an assortment of venues. Also, the audience of a choreography is modular because there is support within a venue for an assortment of audiences, not just one audience.

Flow is motion within systems; systems embody vigor. The flow of dancers, energy, power, force, data, work, discourse, and computations are all equate-able and kinetic – each flow through the form of contiguous – aggregate – systems. The kinetic nature of flow moves stuff, like: a river moving flotsam. The kinetic nature of flow churns operations; the force of flow is a compeller of motion and a compeller of the operations of systems like water churning a turbine; systems churn – operate – through the force of flow. The force of flow is universal.

Workflow is flow. ‘Workflow’ implies that the ‘flow’ pertains to the operations of ‘work’. Work is an operation unto workflow. Work is a broad concept, from the mechanical sense of work, to the sense of a tool performing work, to the sense of work performed by workers within a workforce.

The behaviors of performed work – operations of systems – are essentially predetermined.

The behaviors of systems are, in themselves, minute systems of ‘cause then effect’. ‘Cause then effect’ is a universal system. ‘Cause then effect’ occurs due to the force of flow. Systems receive flow as impetus to react to the flow. Effects – reactions – become the causes for subsequent effects. Flow courses through impetus, then reaction, then impetus. Sequences of systems of ‘cause then effect’ behave like sequences of toppling dominoes.

Flow is the essence of a continuity between happenings. Flow churns the operations of interconnected systems.

ORGANISMS, PARADIGMS, SYSTEMS, AND AGENTS

Organisms, paradigms, and systems (…and utilities and operators and dancers and choreographers and environments and processors….) are all agents. From the Merriam-Webster dictionary, an agent is: “one that acts or exerts power"; "something that produces or is capable of producing an effect"; "an active or efficient cause"; "a computer application designed to automate certain tasks". These are all true within the NextNet.

Organisms are spatially constrained, like a dancer. Internally, organisms are interconnecting cascades of organisms. Organisms, within a cascade, are within organisms; organisms operate as the environments of other – smaller – organisms. Environments are overlying systems. Organisms are able to – with great congruency with flow – react to and adapt to circumstances and to their environment. They are able to exert onto their environment a preference for being.

Unlike organisms: systems and paradigms, on the NextNet, are without spatial constraint. Systems and paradigms should be like agents that behave and adapt like organisms.

Paradigms are frameworks for behaviors and are frameworks from which systems generate. The old-world paradigm capitalizes upon inefficiency to the benefit of few and to the detriment of many. The systems that the old-world paradigm generate are inefficient – seemingly by design; they are quite inert, rarely adapt, and they cause flow to be diverted into the environment and caches.

The world over, over time: inert – interconnecting – systems have shaped what we understand to be our reality. Whatever the predicament, it is the result of every system of ‘cause then effect’ leading up to the predicament. The aggregate system of the world whirrs in inefficiency. The predilection of the aggregate system of the world does not foster adaptation toward potential routes of greater efficiency and – in fact – frequently squashes potential routes of greater efficiency. The inefficiency of the aggregate system of the world interconnects inefficient systems, compounding inefficiency from top to bottom. The current aggregate system of the world is a rigid – inert – structure, rather than an adaptable system that behaves like an organism.

Systems on the NextNet embody the predilection to adapt to circumstances and to the environment of base-reality, like: organisms. To treat systems as inert structures is to deny the fluid and ever-changing reality of nature. The NextNet – through the use of its primary utilities and through its predilection for adaptation and evolution – compels the behaviors, expressions, and ramifications of the new-world paradigm. The NextNet embodies the new-world paradigm.

Systems should retain rigor and the capacity to adapt to circumstances and evolve. Systems should be tools for the well-being and the creative expression of people. Systems should facilitate harmonious behavior.

THE SHIFT TOWARD EFFICIENCY

Orchestras are systems comprised of persons (agents) and systems; there are persons within an orchestra and there are systems that are invoked by the persons to facilitate the performance of various operations – like: the interpretation of sheet-music. Persons in an orchestra and their invoked systems facilitate flow resulting in harmonious music.

The NextNet adapts to circumstances and the will of its users akin to music adapting to the desires of audiences – the desired outcome of the NextNet is efficiency. The attraction to harmony by an audience is akin to the attraction to harmony within adaptations toward efficiency. Music is adaptable through modular instrumentation, modular musicians, modular compositions, modular tones, modular rhythms… each can be supplanted. Adapting toward greater efficiency is achieved by supplanting lesser-harmonious components with greater-harmonious components. Flow strums the chords of harmonious – efficient – systems.

Flow/workflow courses through systems as a force of nature; flow/workflow courses through routines of relatively low resistance. Where routines of lesser resistance are anticipated it should be easy and commonplace to adapt systems toward the routines of lesser resistance – toward greater efficiency. Anticipated routines of lesser resistance should be exploited; it is possible to continuously adapt systems toward increasing efficiency of flow/workflow.

Imagine a grass field with sidewalks. The sidewalks indicate routes for flow. The sidewalks constitute a system for flow. Agents endowed with locomotion flow through the routes of the system of sidewalks; however, the agents also locomote on the grass. Over time: the grass deteriorates where a path of lesser resistance exists. It would be shrewd to use the revealed path to adapt the system of sidewalks toward more efficient flow.

Imagine – instead – that before any sidewalks are lain: the grass field was reified into an abstract form on a computer. To determine the routes of least resistance: the computer performs a simulation of the flow of agents through the grass field. After the simulation, the real field’s system of sidewalks is formed to correspond to the simulation – the real field is lain with sidewalks that correspond to the determined routes of least resistance.

Flow/workflow can course through abstract forms. Many systems of flow/workflow have both a material – or, immaterial – form and an abstract form. The correspondence between the two forms should represent truths about their flow/workflow. To alter the routine of one form should ideally, with some latency, alter the routine of the other form. This can apply to any domain of routines, for instance: a workplace. The abstract form of a workplace can be used to conduct – facilitate – the workflow of the workplace and to increase the efficiency of the workplace.

Step out of a domain, into the domain’s external environment – a new domain. Step out of new domains enough times and tap your head against the boundary of self-contained cognizance. In this environment, imagine that you can see the true form of anything. Imagine a force within this environment. Solidify this force into a form, a whole. Notice that you can transform the form of this whole and while doing so you notice a churning force within the whole. You notice that the churning force hums when the form facilitates efficient flow and grinds when the form facilitates inefficient flow. As you transform the form: you realize that focusing and altering the flow of force must be done with elegance. When the churning force hums: it is tuned to efficiency. After tuning the entirety of the whole toward efficiency, you notice that it resembles its initial form, but with added elegance.

To maximize the efficiency of flow, systems must be tuned toward efficiency. The total efficiency of a system should be tunable through iterations of improved systems that supplant their outmoded lineage. Systems on the NextNet can be supplanted by improved systems that conduct – facilitate – more efficient flow. This is adaptation and evolution.

‘PERCEPTION, THEN INTERPRETATION, THEN TRANSMISSION’

‘Perception, then interpretation**, then transmission’ is a corollary to the universal system of ‘cause then effect’. This system itself – and each component of this system – is a system of ‘cause then effect’. (Causes transform into effects within each component of the system; and, effects transform into causes within the boundaries between the components of the system. Exactly where transformations occur within components and boundaries is often impossible to discern.) This system applies to all systems. This system is the key to modular – interconnectable – systems and modular – interconnectable – computations.

*Within this discussion: interpretation and information** are synonymous. Interpretation and information are simultaneously the operation of behavior/implication routines and the compeller of the operation of behavior/implication routines. The result of the operation of behavior/implication routines is effectively pre-determined within systems. There are gaps that exist between the ‘external’ and the ‘subjective reaction, through behavior, to – or, the subjective understanding, through implication, of – the external’. These gaps are arced by the flow of interpretation and information through behavior (leading to subjective reaction), or by implication (leading to subjective understanding). The energy, or flow, of an arc is kinetic. The kinetic flow of interpretation and information powers the operation of behavior/implication routines. A result is the final product of interpretation and information. A result is transmittable.

***Within this discussion: data and information are nearly synonymous. Arguably, everything is data and everything is information. However – within this discussion – data is: unperceived. And, information is: perceived data with a subjective understanding as arced by implication. Even within this discussion, the distinction is largely irrelevant because all data on the NextNet is, in some manner, perceived. The kinetic flow of information compels data to transform from ‘not understood’ into ‘subjectively understood’. Data transforming into information is like food combusting into the locomotion of an organism. Data is like wood, and information is like the wood combusting into fire.

Flow/workflow is subject to the system of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’. Within a system, perception retrieves input – flow/workflow – from a transmission. Then the input is interpreted by the system. Then the interpretation is routed to the next recipient as a transmission. Then the next recipient’s perception retrieves input – flow/workflow – anew from the transmission. And so on. Transmissions – results of interpretations – are routed to next recipients as conducted – facilitated – by overlying systems. Transmissions are simultaneously the effect of one system and the cause for another system.

Routed transmissions – results of interpretations – are effects. And, received transmissions are causes. Recipients of transmissions are recipients of causes, which were formerly effects. Systems receive causes for subsequent effects. Transmissions route – course – like tossed hot potatoes; next recipients receive hot potatoes as transmissions.

There is no true end or beginning to the operation of this system, this routine – only cycles. Systems do not need to know why they are operating, they only perceive, then interpret, then transmit. Systems are restricted to: perceptions of flow/workflow, then interpretations of the flow/workflow (or, operations unto the flow), then routing the resulting flow/workflow as transmissions.

It’s systems of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’ throughout nature – all the way up and all the way down. And so it is on the NextNet.

TOOLS

Tools are systems of ‘cause then effect’. Tools are systems of ‘perception, then interpretation, then transmission’. Tools conduct – facilitate – focus of flow/workflow through routines. Tools receive flow/workflow, then interpret – or, operate upon – the flow/workflow, then route flow/workflow anew. A tool often requires an operator (…agent, environment, worker, computer…) to compel operations. Operations of a tool can be simple, like: force focuses here.

Imagine a hammer. Input into the hammer imbues the hammer with momentum, which continues until the input stops. Input stops when the force of the hammer transfers outward due to striking an object. The overlying system of a tool describes more fully the application of the tool. Within the system overlying the hammer, it can be seen that the hammer is part of a ‘hammer, nail, and board’ system. Flow/workflow courses from one system to another, from one focused operation to another focused operation.

Tools facilitate – and, at times, automate – flow/workflow. Systems conduct – facilitate – flow/workflow through inner interconnections. To harness flow/workflow with focus and with efficiency is a principle function of the NextNet – or, of any tool. The NextNet harnesses flow/workflow through: an adaptable overlying system that retains adaptable components; correspondence to real-world counterparts. With correspondence between the abstract systems of the NextNet and base-reality: efficiency within the NextNet corresponds to the reality of the efficiency. The mechanism of correspondence often requires manual operation.

Imagine a parabolic mirror which focuses and facilitates workflow. Reify an abstract system of the parabolic mirror. Within the abstract system it is apparent that the parabolic mirror doesn’t focus workflow very well and it radiates a lot of workflow as inefficiency. Loss of workflow is the inefficiency of a tool. To achieve desired efficacy: the parabolic mirror adapts toward a smaller resulting focal point of workflow and toward lesser radiation of workflow.

With an abstract system and correspondence to its real-world counterpart: the abstract system adapts toward the desired efficacy. And, the real-world counterpart of the abstract system, through correspondence, also adapts toward the desired efficacy.

Systems – tools – can be as complex as necessary while remaining partially and wholly adaptable. With the existence of abstract systems, it becomes possible to manifest adaptations within real-world counterparts if the real-world counterparts are compelled to correspond to the abstract systems. This is the adaptation – evolution – of tools. Some real-world counterparts automatically correspond to their abstract systems because they are one and the same.

ADAPTATION

Often: representations on the NextNet will simultaneously be the abstract system and the real-world counterpart. With absolute congruency: many abstract systems on the NextNet will directly correspond to the truth of their own systems. For example: a system that represents a routine exchange of data: the representation of the exchange of data is literally the same as the reality of the exchange of the data, there is no need for two happenings and retentions to exist. There is a one-to-one correspondence with these types of systems.

Efficiency requires adaptable systems that are not rigidly structured. An organism is not rigidly structured. Organisms and the interactions of organisms – internally and externally – are fluid, rather than mechanical. Reality is a fluid operation, not a structure.

The NextNet is akin to an aggregate organism adapting to circumstances; fracture the aggregate organism-like-system of the NextNet and observe the resulting volley of organism-like-systems. These systems each adapt, like: organisms. The aggregate of these systems – the NextNet – adapts, like: an organism. It is only within a paradigm shift – and within a singular tool that embodies the new paradigm of the shift – that systems can be wholly efficient, interconnected, and congruent with real-world circumstances, like: the congruency of an aggregate being, the congruency of that being’s interactions with other beings, and the congruency between the being and its circumstances in base reality – or, the environment. Rigid control is not necessary for an aggregate system to have interconnecting parts. Efficient systems can be designed to interconnect – which is, rather than rigid control, a protocol for receiving and transmitting flow.

A magnet can be any shape yet is able to attract any other magnet of any shape. Imagine that magnets are multifarious and multilocational – reified, this is the general – abstract – form of the NextNet. This abstract form is the means for the NextNet to grow, react, adapt, and evolve.

To quickly react to stimulus and to quickly adapt to circumstance is an evolutionary advantage. Cohesive reaction and adaptation by groups scales in difficulty as groups grow in size. Frequently: within today's discourse and workflow paradigms, productivity is left up to the individual which bottlenecks the overall efficiency of groups – this is eschewed with a tool that embodies the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm for the discourse and workflow of individuals and groups. Without the tool and within large groups in particular: workflow is impossible to exploit globally.

On the NextNet, on the level of users: synergy between discourse, workflow, users, groups, and collectives of groups is achieved via the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm. The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm conducts – facilitates – the flow of discourse and the flow of work. A mutual tool for discourse and workflow conducts – facilitates – synergy. Awareness of identified and anticipated routines of workflow makes possible the support of workflow through workflow systems which facilitate and automate the routines of workflow for users, groups, collectives of groups, and systems. Outmoded workflow systems can be supplanted – adapted – evolved.

Systems adapt and grow by retaining current systems while supplanting outmoded systems with current systems. Supplanting outmoded systems with current systems is automatic. The development – construction – of new systems is not automatic – or, at least is not conceptually.

A subsequent implementation of a system retains some number of inner interconnections from its outmoded lineage – this is necessary to maintain cohesion. Wherever a system is invoked, the most recent iteration of the system is the invoked system. This is the ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm.

The ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm applies to all data and systems, including utilities (as systems and as tools). Utilities can evolve and adapt, just like systems, just like tools, just like routines for flow/workflow. Improved versions of utilities supplant outmoded versions. Interpreters of data are utilities. There is a decoupling between data and interpreters of data so that: outmoded data can be automatically supplanted with current versions of the data; outmoded interpreters of data can be automatically supplanted with current versions of interpreters. This decoupling is possible due to the modular nature of the NextNet. Data can perpetually change and grow in size and complexity via supplanting data. Interpreters of data can perpetually evolve. Presently: systems aren't built to seamlessly evolve like organic life.

Systems of flow/workflow are able to evolve and adapt. As beings with the capacity to evolved and adapt our systems to our preference and to our circumstances: there exists the power to support the flow/workflow of the systems through improvements. Tools – systems – harness efficiency by giving to the users the power to adapt the systems of flow/workflow. Tools are best developed by the users of the tools and systems. Users are aggregates of eyes, hands, and brains and they compel the adaptation and evolution of tools and systems. Users, in anticipating the efficacy of tools, are in the best position to adapt the tools.

The NextNet is a tool – a system – that facilitates flow through its network. In particular: flow of data, flow of discourse, flow of work, and flow of computations. Organisms evolve and adapt to circumstances with respect to pre-determined behavior routines. The NextNet is a tool that facilitates group behavior more akin to the behavior of organisms, rather than being subject to brutalist-monolithic – rigid – structures. An evolving and adapting network is not a rigid structure.

Parse the word 'network' into 'net work'. ‘Net work’ is work represented, or engaged, on a net. The NextNet is the net. The NextNet conducts – facilitates – ‘net work’. The NextNet retains routines that correspond to the flow of ‘net work’. On the NextNet: systems of ‘net work’ are interconnectable. ‘Net work’ on the NextNet interconnects into a cohesive whole which operates in whole and in parts. If instances of ‘net work’ are automated, then – after – there will be an increase in the overall efficiency of the NextNet. The NextNet compounds efficiency through its network of increasingly efficient instances of ‘net work’.

Presently: the global network of systems is essentially gridlocked. Presently: systems – being multifarious and multilocational and within the old-world paradigm – compound inefficiency to a nearly insurmountable degree. Think of the multitude of current dominant systems that do not correspond to the fluid nature of growth and adaptation; rather, they correspond to control over land regions, to control over people, and to control over systems.

Presently: control is the paradigm from which dominant systems are built; control is the paradigm that interconnects the dominant systems on the global network of systems. While control remains more important than harmony, fluidity, adaptation, and evolution there will be a cacophony of resulting issues. Control is rigid. With available tools: control is not necessary. With the tools available now: control is an outdated paradigm. Cohesive coordination of systems is achievable through the NextNet, rather than through the brute force of rigid control. Control is not graceful.

Within the new-world paradigm: without rigid control and with grace: systems seamlessly adapt to real-world circumstances and toward efficiency; however, within the old-world paradigm: the iterations of adaptations are resisted; the form of society conforms to rigid – pre-existing – control-structures; the global network of systems conforms to rigid – pre-existing – control-structures; the systems cannot accommodate real-world circumstances without gaudy and inefficient forms; the systems frequently correspond to fabrications that do not exist within base-reality – these fabrications are upheld above all-else, even above the survival of species’.

THE KEYSTONE

Systems can be interconnectable if they are designed to be interconnectable. A system, being multifarious, can internally interconnect an assortment of systems. A system, being multilocational, can to be constituent to an assortment of systems. Flow is a universal force; flow courses through systems and compels the operations of systems. The total efficiency of the NextNet must be tunable. Systems must adapt. And utilities (as systems) must grow.

THE NEXTNET

The NextNet is in parts and/or in whole…

•…Flow

Flow is a universal force which compels cause and effect and the operations of systems.

•…Retrievable

All data within the whole of the NextNet must be retrievable by users and systems.

•…Transparent

With transparency: it is difficult to alter data in a way that groups cannot see and interpret.

Efficiency and utility should generally be the focus of a tool, not necessarily cashflow. Transparency is the basis for a global effort toward increasing efficiency and growth of utility.

There is a need for pervasive transparency within a global system. The path toward a TRUE social network is pebbled with modicums of transparency; the bulk of data within the old-world paradigm is obfuscated from users. For pervasive transparency: there must be one rule: almost everything on the NextNet must be non-anonymous and transparent (at the very least, some democratic data will not be openly interpretable). The trend within social networking is a trend of increasing transparency. Non-transparency is a barrier that exists within the old-world paradigm. There's a lot of utility within total transparency!

For example: retrieving an invoice can be a game of Telephone Tag or I Hope They Respond To That Email. A seeker of an invoice should be able to go to the location of the invoice and download the invoice; yet, they cannot due to privacy (non-transparency) and incompatible – non-mutual – data systems. Any system or user of the NextNet should be able to retrieve and/or route data for any particular purpose. Why would a user need to retrieve an invoice at all if the underlying purpose for retrieval was systematized into an automated routine?

(Systems embody purposes when purposes exist as descriptions or as routines. Where a purpose exists as a description: the purpose should be a guideline for system-related activities. Where a purpose exists as a routine: the routine should actuate expressions congruent to the purpose. One method of deriving a purpose is to reverse engineer: examine routes of flow/workflow. Then: describe the purpose, or establish the purpose as a routine for flow/workflow.)

There are many potential systems that can capitalize upon transparency. For example: there are potential systems that could use, due to a mutual data need, a global – open – ledger. The ledger can retain records of transactions, no matter the type of currency or value representation. With an open ledger and with transparency as the bedrock: it is possible to accurately trace the routing of resources and to facilitate the distribution of resources for greatest benefit.

There exists the potential for private networks to interconnect with the NextNet.

•…Democratic

There is a need for an easy to use, multipurpose voting utility – a utility that can represent the wills of people. The voting utility operates upon votes as anonymous, as self-tallying, and as personally verifiable. Some democratic data will not be openly interpretable, but will be interpretable by the people that the data pertains to. This is a safety precaution due to a historical happening of voter data being used for nefarious or violent activities. Hence: democracy on the NextNet, on the level of people, is an anonymously engaged utility.

This is not just about democracy within governments, it's also about allowing the life of any group to be congruent with the sum of its constituents.

•…Productive

The practice and study of productivity is niche, and, unfortunately, ordinarily, only serves the individual. Groups exist that support constituent individuals in productivity; however, these groups are outnumbered by the groups that leave every constituent individual to their self. The reason for this is: it's hard to simultaneously work, to learn about organizing work, and to foster the habit of organizing work. Productivity programs are often an arcane utility (Outlook by Microsoft) and a subduing methodology (Getting Things Done by David Allen). And, most daunting of all: matching theory with application, and matching a system of workflow with the actual work that needs to be engaged.

On the level of users: the NextNet uses the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm which satisfies the productivity needs of users, groups, and collectives of groups. Discourse and workflow can coexist with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm, this is why Outlook can seamlessly and simultaneously function as a center for discourse and as a system of workflow. The NextNet conducts – facilitates – discourse and workflow with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm.

The form of the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm looks like all that is universal between all systems of productivity. Without going into detail within this discussion about methods of productivity, know that there is a ‘universal productivity’ paradigm that scales from the endeavor of users, to the endeavor of any group of any size, to the endeavor of collectives of groups. The ‘universal productivity’ paradigm unifies discourse, workflow, individuals (users), groups, and collectives of groups.

•…Discourse

Discourse within the NextNet occurs with respect to the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm; discourse is retained with respect to topics, expressions, data, systems, individuals, users, groups, collectives of groups, workflow… anything.

A type of discourse is peer-review. Presently: discourse over research is not organized in a way that supports a perpetual peer-review operation. Three primary reasons: 1. Money: research dissemination frequently deigns to be profitable for the disseminating entity; 2. Practicality: organizing ongoing discourse can be troublesome, especially when research is retained behind disparate paywalls; 3. Competition: resolutions to problems are frequently pursued by uncooperating teams. It would be a boon to the expansion of knowledge and the capacity to adapt to real-world circumstances if there existed the capacity to interact with the operation of peer-review as if it were a perpetual – global – discourse (and workflow). Perpetual discourse compels the evolution of discourse. It should be possible to observe the operation of peer-review as it grows in detail and into new hubs of thought. Imagine our evolving understanding of the universe to be a perpetual – globally interconnected – evolving discourse.

The categories of ‘people’ (‘peers’), ‘academia’, ‘politics’, ‘government’, and ‘democracy’ should coexist within the same domain of fair expression, because there is no reason they can’t (because they can!). The domain is discourse (and workflow). Discourse is the first step to informing collective behavior.

•…Modular

Systems and data on the NextNet are modular; systems and data on the NextNet are multifarious and multilocational, interconnectable, and not spatially constrained. Being multifarious: a system can invoke an assortment of systems. Being multilocational: a system can be constituent to an assortment of systems.

Interpretation of data must be modular. The NextNet decouples data and interpretation. To guide interpretation and for the sake of growing utility: data (for example: the data of an invoice) must declare the system used to write said data. A system that is used to write data will inform on the system to be used to read (interpret) the data. But this should not be strict. In this way, data remains open to improved – or, alternative – methods of interpretation. Decoupling allows data to be useful to a variety of systems.

This is the basis for a ‘perpetual adaptation and evolution’ paradigm, where the use of a system is automatically through the most recent version of the system. This is the basis for the adaptation and evolution of the NextNet and its constituent systems.

•…Redundant

With redundancy, it is difficult to alter data in a way that groups cannot see and interpret. The integrity of data is verifiable with redundancy. Further, data retained by a collective can outlast data retention on volatile media (such as compact disc).

•…Queryable

It is a problem that research is organized within non-mutual regions of the Internet. And, additionally, organized by specifications specific to each region. This problem causes queries into the entirety of research to be impossible. It is ironic that decentralization will be the path toward a queryable whole.

•…Qualitative

(Content is anything – including systems, data, and utilities – within the NextNet.)

Qualitative-multifarious content: content can be described by its declared assortment of qualities. The nature of content is described by its qualities; every quality describes an aspect of content; a quality describes content as having a particular quality. Content, being qualitative-multifarious, associates to every declared quality. There is no limit to the number of qualities content can declare. Content can be largely described by its menagerie of qualities.

Qualities are multilocational, meaning that a single quality can be declared by an assortment of content. Every quality – being multilocational – associates to all content that has declared the quality. Qualities are a means of organizing and filtering content.

•…Computable

The NextNet is the infrastructure for easy-to-coordinate cloud computations.

A routine is executed by the means necessary to complete the routine whether it is by a worker taking a stimulus (or, an input) as a priori to work and generate the output of the work, or a computer taking an input (or, a stimulus) as a priori to apply operations and generate the output of a computation.

By being modular systems, and by being multifarious and multilocational, routines functionally exist where invoked. This permits any routine to invoke an assortment of routines, and permits any routine to be invoked by an assortment of routines.

Construction of routines on the NextNet can be accomplished by linearly – functionally – stringing together routines. This is to be the basis for ad hoc – functional – cloud computations. Cloud computations can be anything from computations of sorting algorithms, to analysis of data, to, perhaps, the operations of operating systems.

Imagine a device that has all the world's computation potential and it comprises a screen, a meager processor, very limited memory, an input method, an enclosure, and Wi-Fi connectivity. Imagine the low cost of such a device and the potential for the device to access all systems and all computation routines on the NextNet.

•…Scalable

The construct of every system should err toward total scalability. For example: the ‘universal productivity’ paradigm facilitates productive discourse and work-related discourse at any scale. Systems can be large, small, complex, or simple while – ideally – retaining scalability. A system is scalable if the system’s construct retains a coherent form during dilation of the system.

•…Decentralized

Data is retained by the participants of the network of the tool. This adds to the integrity of the network’s data. A decentralized network’s infrastructure is difficult to dismantle.

To envision a network infrastructure that does easily break and does not rely so heavily on the Internet’s current infrastructure: imagine a chipmunk chirping in the woods. Imagine that the chipmunk is within a distribution of other chipmunks, all chirping in the woods. Every chipmunk exists as the central node of its own local communication-sphere; every chipmunk subconsciously constructs its own portion of the contiguous network of overlapping communication-spheres. Communications are routed through this contiguous network; the information dissemination network of chipmunks routes information with minimal coordination.

The same is possible for the routing of data – or, information. An alternative information dissemination scheme that allows for information to get where it needs to go, with a minimum of coordination, can be constructed. For a new infrastructure that does not rely so heavily on the Internet: consider the overlap of Wi-Fi signals: imagine the scheme of the information dissemination network of chipmunks applied to densely people-populated areas.

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[Bradymck]

Hello @axiom-prime, Thanks for the submission. Could you describe where your project and district0x could have synergy on a technical level and through those connection how to you see them functioning as a district. This could use a brief summery with bullet points describing what you will use district0x for. This will help me dig into this on the live stream and give practical examples on how this would work as a district. This will help me understand

Example: We will open source our code and propose this merging of projects through the following means:

• Open source and evaluate the feasibility of a project merge
• NextNet will use Aragon to control it's underlying code and changes
• NextNet will utilize the IPFS backend to store data and migrate it's current infrastructure to district0x
• NextNet will migrate it's existing systems to an Ethereum contract so it can be implemented as a district.
• Write modules and open source submissions to district0x that facilitate the merging of code.

Just throwing ideas out here. I'm not entirely sure how this would work but this is to give a clear example of what I would need to see to help here. The community would also like to see some open source code before they could see how this would work. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Also, please provide an ETH address for this submission.

[Bradymck]

I'm going to close this out for now. Let me know when you decide to release some of the work you and your team are developing so we can figure how district0x could interface with the platform you are building. I look forward to seeing what you are working on. I would love to reopen this so we can see how this would work as a district.

[Bradymck]

The deadline for the reward is today, please provide a token address before the end of the day