The origin of BioTags came out of a discomfort that I’ve had with our collective obsession for seamless interoperability between our organizations, the physical things that we create and their digital footprints. APIs, blockchain solutions, digital twins, and web3 (once the semantic web), among others, are all initiatives around the collective need to model and share our data with those who rely on it. These efforts are disconnected from the physical things that they intend to track.