Introducing the Zero Organization — A Future Of Temporary Autonomous Consortiums
Gavriel Shaw
The Cognitive Economy | I Support Research, Planning & Incubation, including End-to-End Marketing Management (Channel, Product, Growth) and Team Workshops
The Zero Organization has no boundaries in the traditional sense of company, corporate, or institutional structures.
These archaic edifices attempt to bound collaboration within legal frameworks, hierarchal management structures, with a redundant way of tracing value flows.
All this becomes superseded by micro traceability of work contribution, as hierarchies become flat through distributed decision making, and cooperatives that span innumerable geographic boundaries become the norm.
Take Vitalik Buterin's experimental 'pop-up city' concept Zuzalu (https://zuzalu.city) as example.
Or Burning Man.
Or hark back to Hakim Bey's 1991 cypherpunk-esque treatise The Temporary Autonomous Zone (readable online). A cornucopia of ontological anarchism suggesting the impermanence of collaborative groups that band together for a specific purpose, goal, event, or experience.. and then disband having fulfilled its temporary purpose.
As data becomes ever-more present and utilized in decentralized protocols, each of us gain capacity to discover, align, and participate in countless explorations or outcomes based on our values, interests, skills, and experiences.
In decades past, careers were set for life... while today we might transition across career types multiple times.
So to in the future, we may participate in many dozens... if not hundreds... of economic situations via smart-contracts that facilitate payment for contributions made.
The easiest analogy is to think of designers, writers, or developers who work independently and have dozens of clients over time.
They are not considered as employees or staff in the traditional sense, nor are they independent contributors. They may be consultants, advisors, or providers. Often referred to as contractors.
Similarly, The Zero Organization exists only in the temporary nature of its associations between 'contractors' facilitated by smart-contracts, assisted by AI, driven by data, forged by meaningful relationships.
Zero Organizations are consortiums between autonomous individuals.
Individuals with budgetary power within an economic engine of value creation and distribution. With decision making power and ownership of resource allocations, they include other individuals to participate in specific project areas to collaborate on mutual value creation. Associations last as long as the system and participants agree a mutual benefit.
Hence...
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Temporary Autonomous Consortiums, or TACs.
This model extends today's concept of a DAO; a Decentralized Autonomous Organization. A phrase that emerged around 2013 following Dan Larimer's suggestion of a DAC (Decentralized Autonomous Company).
The collaborative zero-hierarchy management structures of DAO's is still in its nascent stage of development, with various progress throughout the web3 sector.
Hypha.earth innovated the concept of DHO's: Decentralized Human Organizations, placing recognition and relationship of the individuals as central to the functionality of the organization. With values-based passion and compassionate communication as key learning points for inclusive human-centric synergy.
As distributed networks of Temporary Autonomous Organizations begin to form, perhaps we will naturally see the borders and boundaries between one organization and another begin to fade, as work becomes entirely organized around the flexibility of individual autonomous contributors, rather than through the rigidity of pre-DAO centralized corporate structures.
This largely depends on futuristic data management that will allow greater filtering and matching between projects and passionate/capable parties, and the measurability of value flows, right down to the individual.
Time will tell.
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