If You Are a Builder

If you are a software engineer, designer, systems architect, cryptographer, or any other kind of technical builder who recognizes the coordination infrastructure the book has been describing as work you could contribute to, the project called Providence is being developed openly and is looking for collaborators. The architecture is not finished. The hard problems are not solved. The trust layer, the identity-sovereignty implementation, the design of the physiological-wallet layer over the long term, the cryptographic architecture that holds the surveillance-resistance commitments, the governance system that prevents founder-permanence capture—each of these is work being done now or work that needs to begin. If this is your work, there are ways to find out more, and the book has been written in part as the document that helps you decide whether this is the project you want to give your time to.

If your judgment is that something different needs to be built, build it. The interlude after Chapter Five named this directly: the work belongs to whoever does it, in whatever form their conditions permit, and there is no version of the next civilization in which a single coordination infrastructure produced by a single team becomes the answer. Many simultaneous experiments are needed. The book has tried to be useful to all of them, not only to the one its author happens to be building.