Changelog
Version history and development updates for the Civilization Systems Model project.
Version 0.0.4
March 2025
- Enhanced Resilience & Fragility page with comprehensive content:
- Restructured content using three-part pattern with detailed historical examples
- Added rich historical case studies of resilience mechanisms across civilizations
- Included specific metrics and quantitative data throughout all sections
- Enhanced sections on resilience mechanisms with detailed examples from various historical contexts
- Expanded content on diversity, connectivity patterns, buffer capacities, and adaptive capacity
- Added detailed analysis of antifragility and asymmetrical response profiles with historical examples
- Implemented expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Enhanced Path Dependency & Lock-In page with comprehensive content:
- Restructured content using three-part pattern with detailed historical examples
- Added rich historical case studies of lock-in mechanisms across technological, institutional, and cognitive domains
- Included specific metrics and quantitative data throughout all sections
- Enhanced sections on lock-in mechanisms with detailed historical examples and data
- Expanded sections on breaking path dependency with detailed case studies and research findings
- Enhanced system design implications section with concrete examples and quantitative evidence
- Implemented expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Enhanced Emergence & Self-Organization page with comprehensive content:
- Restructured content using three-part pattern with detailed historical examples
- Added rich historical case studies of emergent systems across civilizations
- Included specific metrics and quantitative data throughout all sections
- Enhanced Economic, Urban, Cultural, and Political Emergence sections with historical evidence
- Expanded Computational Models and Design Implications sections with detailed examples
- Implemented expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Style enhancements:
- Added italic styling to summary paragraphs for improved visual distinction
- Enhanced readability of expandable content sections
Version 0.0.3
March 2025
- Comprehensive restructuring of main index page sections:
- Redesigned "Understanding Each Layer" using three-part structure with detailed examples
- Added quantitative data and specific historical examples to each layer component
- Expanded Layer Interactions section with detailed case studies and cross-layer dynamics
- Added specific metrics for interaction patterns between civilization system layers
- Applied expandable list functionality to improve content accessibility
- Implemented expandable list items functionality across the site:
- Added JavaScript and CSS for intelligently truncating long list items with a 180-character threshold
- Created chevron indicators showing expandable content that rotate on expansion
- Implemented smooth transitions for expand/collapse animations
- Ensured first complete sentence remains visible regardless of length
- Designed for both desktop and mobile viewing experience
- Enhanced content structure documentation in CLAUDE.md:
- Added comprehensive guidelines for the three-part content structure
- Documented implementation standards for expandable list items
- Created detailed examples and templates for content creators
- Comprehensive System Properties index page with detailed sections:
- Added rich introductory content explaining the fundamental nature of system properties
- Created extensive section on key characteristics of system properties with historical examples
- Enhanced property summaries with specific historical examples and additional context
- Developed detailed section on property interactions with concrete historical cases
- Added new Analytical Applications section with practical use cases
- Implemented expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Comprehensive Analytical Applications index page with detailed sections:
- Added rich explanatory content on the practical application of the civilization system model
- Created extensive section on methodological characteristics with historical examples
- Enhanced application summaries with specific historical examples for each methodology
- Developed detailed section on practical usage with concrete case studies
- Added new content on integrated application of multiple methodologies
- Implemented expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Comprehensive Energy Transitions - Historical Progression section restructuring:
- Replaced timeline visualization with detailed three-part content structure
- Added rich historical data on each energy era (Biomass, Coal, Oil/Gas, Nuclear, Renewables)
- Included specific metrics, dates, and quantitative data throughout
- Developed synthesis paragraph on transformation patterns across energy transitions
- Applied expandable list items functionality for improved content accessibility
- Comprehensive Demographic Transitions page with detailed content across all sections:
- Added rich content on population dynamics, urbanization phases, and family structure evolution
- Included specific historical examples, quantitative data, and dates throughout
- Applied expandable list items functionality to make dense content more accessible
- Structured content following the three-part pattern: intro, detailed bullets, synthesis
- Comprehensive Environmental Feedback Cycles page with detailed content:
- Added historical example cycles (Mesopotamia, Easter Island, Dust Bowl, Ozone)
- Developed Anthropocene dynamics section covering climate, biodiversity, nitrogen, and material cycles
- Compared technological vs. institutional/behavioral adaptation approaches
- Explored socio-ecological system coupling with specific examples and data
- Enhanced Transformation Drivers index with expanded framework:
- Expanded explanation of driver characteristics with concrete historical examples
- Added detailed driver interaction section with specific relationship patterns
- Enhanced historical convergence matrix to include all six drivers
- Added comprehensive current transformation dynamics section
- Expert Authority Reconfiguration section enhancement in Information Technology Revolutions:
- Expanded with detailed examples of how information technologies transform authority structures
- Added specific historical data and transition patterns for different information regimes
- UI and navigation improvements:
- Enhanced mobile navigation experience
- Fixed chevron positioning in expandable lists
- Improved system visualization components
- Added table of contents sections to longer pages
Version 0.0.2
March 2025
- Enhanced Information Technology Revolutions page with significantly expanded content across all sections:
- Added detailed information about oral, written, print, broadcast, digital, and AI-based information technologies with specific historical examples and data points
- Expanded cognitive impacts section with in-depth analysis of how each information technology transformed both individual and collective thinking patterns
- Enhanced information velocity effects section with comprehensive treatment of how each technology revolution altered the speed and patterns of information flow through society
- Expanded authority disruption patterns section with detailed examples of how information technologies have transformed religious and political authority structures throughout history
- Template standardization implemented across key pages, using a consistent three-part structure:
- Introductory paragraphs establishing context
- Detailed bullet points with bold lead-ins containing specific historical examples and quantitative data
- Synthesis paragraphs identifying higher-order patterns
- Added GitHub Actions workflow for automated deployment to Neocities
Version 0.0.1
Initial Release - February 2025
- Core framework established with four-layer model of civilization systems
- Six transformation drivers documented:
- Energy Regime Transitions
- Information Technology Revolutions
- Institutional Innovations
- Metacognitive Developments
- Demographic Transitions
- Environmental Feedback Cycles
- Six system properties defined:
- Emergence & Self-Organization
- Path Dependency & Lock-In
- Resilience & Fragility
- Adaptation & Learning
- Scale Effects & Complexity
- Energy/Information Processing
- Six analytical applications outlined:
- Comparative Historical Analysis
- Transition Dynamics
- Collapse & Resilience Assessment
- Scenario Planning
- Innovation Ecosystem Mapping
- Cultural Evolution Analysis
- Initial site structure with responsive design and navigation