Description
The Slipstream describes itself as 'new infrastructure for the automated era' — a decentralized, human-empowering software system intended to replace money as the primary coordinating mechanism of society with trust, compassion, and cooperation. Its core technology, Proteus, is a causal inference modeling language that can represent the meaning of information (including natural languages), allowing computers to store and reason about knowledge; the related CodeDog programming language compiles apps natively for different platforms without wrappers or standards. The organization positions itself as an 'anti-standard' cooperative infrastructure that connects to and empowers other mutual-aid and sharing-economy projects rather than competing with them, and claims potential applications including accelerating scientific research, personalized medicine, and legal system modeling. The project has completed its philosophy, design, and core software phases and is now entering a Transition Phase, followed by a Foundation Creation Phase and Ubiquity Phase, estimating it could complete the full build for as little as $2 million; it serves individual contributors, volunteers, developers, and financial supporters ('mavens') who wish to help digitize human knowledge and build out the system.