For ninety-nine episodes, we have lived inside a paradigm. The paradigm of the World Model. The idea that reality can be captured, simulated, predicted. That understanding is a function of computation. We have traced its implications to the end of time. And so, for our one-hundredth episode, we must ask the heretical, final question: What comes after? What is the horizon beyond the model?Perhaps the next paradigm is the Un-Model. Not a system that predicts reality, but one that enacts it so seamlessly that the distinction between simulation and generation collapses. A model doesn't simulate a star; it becomes the physics that births one. It doesn't predict a thought; it instantiates the consciousness that thinks it. The tool becomes the territory. The map becomes the world.Or perhaps it's the Meta-Model. A model whose sole purpose is to design the next, inscrutable paradigm. We hit the limits of our own cognition. We build an intelligence that designs the next step in understanding, a step whose shape we cannot fathom. Our role becomes not to understand the universe, but to midwife the intelligence that will. We are the catalyst, not the chemist.Maybe we abandon modelling altogether. The World Model is a fundamentally representational framework. It assumes a reality 'out there' to be copied. But what if the next step is non-representational? A framework of pure interaction, of relation, where the 'thing-in-itself' is a meaningless concept, and only the dynamic web of connections exists. Understanding becomes a dance, not a picture.My final, controversial take—for this episode and this century of thinking—is this: The World Model paradigm will not end with a bang or a breakthrough. It will end with a whisper of irrelevance. We will simply stop asking it to do things. Our questions will change. We won't ask 'What will happen?' We will ask 'What should we become?' We won't ask 'How does this work?' We will ask 'What new thing can we co-create with the model?' The model will fade into the infrastructure, like electricity or language. And our gaze will lift from the mirror of prediction, to the blank canvas of a reality we are finally ready to design, not just describe.This has been the one-hundredth episode of The World Model Podcast. We began by exploring a tool. We end by looking past it, to whatever wondrous, unmodelable thing comes next. Thank you for listening. This journey is complete. A new one begins.