Conceived in the mid-1990s

Lostair

Living Operating System Technology
caused by Artificial Intelligence Research

Lostair began as an early idea shaped by experimentation with Prolog, a logic programming language built around knowledge, rules, and inference. It suggested a different way of thinking about software: not simply as fixed instructions, but as systems capable of reasoning, adaptation, and emergence.

The origin

Working with Prolog introduced the possibility of software whose behaviour could emerge from logic rather than being explicitly written step by step. From that came the idea of a Living Operating System: a platform where intelligence is not merely added as a feature, but forms the foundation of how the system operates.

The vision

Lostair explored the idea of intelligent systems that could behave less like static programs and more like evolving environments.

Timeline

The Lostair concept forms through early experimentation with Prolog and logic-based programming.

The domain lostair.com is registered as a name for the idea.