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Cornerstone Essay

The Bulletin's anchor pieces. A cornerstone essay is the publication's reference definition of a load-bearing claim — the kind of piece the rest of the catalog argues from rather than re-litigating. Cornerstone essays are revised in place when the underlying thesis sharpens; they are not retired.

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Cornerstone Essay

Three Metaphors, One Bet

An argument piece. Operating system, agentic mesh, AI workforce — the three metaphors competing for the agentic-AI category are not equivalent, and the metaphor a category settles on determines the developer mental models, the commercial structures, and the kind of company that ends up winning.

Idris Aksoy·11 min read

Cornerstone Essay

The Web4 Substrate Is Live

A cornerstone essay. The Model Context Protocol and the Agent-to-Agent protocol now sit under the Linux Foundation, and the agentic internet has, for the first time, a neutral substrate. Web4 is the layer that gets built on top of it.

Idris Aksoy·12 min read

Cornerstone Essay

What Is Web4? A Working Definition

A cornerstone essay. Web4 is the working name for the operating layer that replaces the app — agentic infrastructure, autonomous services, and the post-app internet — and the Bulletin's editorial position is that it is already partly built.

Idris Aksoy·11 min read