Why Reflyx?

It might seem paradoxal to propose a new operating system in the age of AI, realtime communication and cloud computing. After all, we've never experienced such a rapid evolution of the computing landscape, at least it feels like an evolution. But what if I said that we're still think about software like the early hardware engineers of the the early 70s? What if I said that our current software paradigm is not only outdated but also misaligned with the needs of the modern world? We live in a modern online world powered by offline software. We innovate by applying this offline software to new real world problems and industries, but the concept of software itself, of how we think about it, it's very nature, has not changed since the early days of computing.

Why does it matter?

The fact that we constantly trying to fit offline-era software components to solve online-era problems is the root cause of many of not all of the major issues we face today and that will just exponentially exhacerbate in the future. We analyze complex collaboration problems, business processes involving mutiple organizations across multiple countries and industries, with our offline mindset. We try to create a snapshot of the reality and build a software solution support this crystalized vision.

We create an orderly veil above the chaotic reality

The problems we aim to solve are more and more complex, involving more people, more data from multiple sources, more security risks and with everchanging requirements. We've extended our offline software toolbox as much as we could with better runtime environment, better frameworks, languages, testing tools and more adapted development processes. But the gains are diminishing and the problems are growing. The offline software paradigm cannot be extended to solve AI adoption issues in our society, increasing security breaches due to more and more integration points and the overall cost explosion of software innovation due to hyper-specialization and less and less offshore economies of scale to leverage.

It matters because the need for software is not linear but exponential and our offline approach CANNOT scale beyond a linear progression. Cost and complexity will overrun our capacity to create software. And this is without taking AI into account...

The storm ahead

We can't continue to create computing devices that are completely misaligned with the problems we try to solve. Think about your laptop and how often you use most of its capacity. You spend your time in two apps: email client and web browser. All your files are in the cloud and the clever permission system of your operating system is useless for most security threats you will face. OSes are blind to everything that is happening outside the device on which they operate, which is 99% of everything you do with a computer! Would you buy a device that is offering expensive features that you don't need?

We're wasting too much energy trying to fit our offline approach to the online world. We can't continue this way, we can't let the software industry lead us in a society dead-end. Software is the life blood of our modern society and failure to evolve it will have dire impacts on our way of life. AI is reaching a level of maturity that will allow it to automate many decisions and routine tasks, which will endanger the jobs of many white and blue collar workers. AI will also increase security threats to our offline-integrated software systems. Each integration point is a potential security breach and AI actors will be able to figure out exploits faster than we can patch them. Fake content will be harder to detect, which will ingnite disinformation wars everywhere, fueling a war against democracy.

Software has transformed our world in the past 30 years. We need to change the model to address these misalignments, reduce the cost of creating software, reduce the bottlenecks of central IT planning and put humans are the center of software systems, not as mere external users. We need to put humans in control of their own information systems if we are to compete on equal ground with AI actors going forward. Humans are still smarter and more creative than AI, but our stance as visual data consumers is putting us at a disadvantage.

What is Reflyx OS?

Reflyx OS is a global operating system where each and every human is an information system. Reflyx is thus inherently decentralized and enforce a number of principles that empower humans to consume and produce information and work with AI to improve our society and reduce the friction in exchanging, transforming and enriching data. In Reflyx OS, you don't need to buy a computer. You connect to the global computing grid to access all the computing services you need, just like you access the power grid to get the electricity you need. On this commoditized grid, Reflyx will let you consume and produce rich information and interact with other actors, including AI, objects, organizations, systems and much more. In Reflyx OS, humans are part of the information chain, not just consumers.

Checkout the Reflyx Principles and learn how you can help make this vision a reality!