The World of Active Things

By Mahmudur R Manna

The World of Active Things is a foundational conceptual work for the future of engineering, knowledge modelling, and agent systems. It argues that the world is not best understood through static records, documents, and workflows alone, but through Active Things: bounded realities that begin, change, relate, persist, and end.

From this idea, the book develops a coherent framework for thinking about boundary, lifecycle, states, events, transitions, relations, and purpose as the deeper structure through which active reality becomes knowable. It then extends that framework into practical concepts such as Identity Index, Lifecycle Memory, and the composition of Active Things in enterprise data systems and agent-driven environments.

This is not a narrow software manual or a passing AI trend book. It is a serious conceptual contribution: an attempt to offer a stronger unit for modelling knowledge, memory, and interaction in a world increasingly shaped by active systems.

For engineers, system designers, knowledge architects, and thinkers working on the future of agents, memory, and enterprise systems, this book offers a new lens for building more faithful, more coherent, and more durable foundations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GY4XMMN1
• ISBN13: 9798258366849
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"