GHYPERION INDUSTRIES
GHYPERION
Every civilization has been defined by the way it coordinates people, knowledge and resources.
01THESIS
Agriculture created cities.
Industry created nations.
The internet connected information.
Intelligence will coordinate everything.
Ghyperion is building the next coordination layer of civilization.
02THE CONSTRAINT
Civilization has always been limited by coordination.
For thousands of years, organizations have existed because coordinating people, capital and production was expensive.
That constraint is ending.
The company is not the final form of organization.
We’re building what comes next.
03EMERGENCE
FIG. 01 — EACH POINT IS AN ORGANIZATION
Civilization is becoming programmable.
04THE SYSTEM
Not products. Not divisions. Six coordination problems, worked as one body, each one a mechanism for increasing civilization’s capacity to coordinate.
I
Knowledge
RESEARCH
How a civilization learns.
II
Allocation
FUNDING
How it directs its resources.
III
Identity
CREATION
How it knows who is who.
IV
Commerce
OPERATION
How it exchanges value.
V
Attention
DISTRIBUTION
How it decides what matters.
VI
Relationships
COMMUNITY
How it holds together.
05PRECEDENT
Every civilization has an operating system.
Egypt
THE NILE
Rome
ROADS
The industrial age
FACTORIES
The internet
PROTOCOLS
The intelligence age
COORDINATION
Coordination is the next infrastructure.
06TOPOLOGY
FIG. 02 — COORDINATION TOPOLOGY, ORBITAL VIEW