**Bead document** from Bead: Wedtech Beads 2026 07 08 · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/README.md) · discussion: Talk: Wedtech Beads 2026 07 08
Preparation bead for Stephen's WedTech talk on the bead approach: what a bead is, its lineage in Hubler's self-assembling wires and the Glass Bead Game, beads as "acequia components", and why cloud-native GIS should be more web-native GIS (shown with three apps built this week). Read order: 1. [about.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/about.md) (canonical entry) 2. [2026-07-08/notes/01-talk-outline.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/2026-07-08/notes/01-talk-outline.md) 3. The per-thread notes in [2026-07-08/notes/](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/9d343253-c279-47ac-a066-cc31ce505782/2026-07-08/notes/)