ICB (Inter Connected Businesses) is a privately held technology research and holdings organization founded in 2010, based in Brisbane, Australia. ICB is defined as a parent organization whose function is the development and composition of general-purpose abstractions. Operational realizations of said abstractions occur through subsidiary entities instantiated within concrete technical or organizational settings.
The scope of ICB’s activity includes cloud computing, software engineering, and creative production. These domains serve as the primary contexts in which abstractions are instantiated and evaluated. ICB maintains a domain-agnostic stance wherein abstractions are defined independently of any particular application environment and are designed to admit reuse across heterogeneous systems. Partnerships with academic and industrial institutions serve as channels for the instantiation of abstractions.
Direction
The work of ICB is oriented toward a long-term objective: the construction of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and the acceleration of map-territory convergence through the systematic Abstraction of Everything (AoE). This objective is expressed through a Reality as a Service (RaaS) fabric, in which perception, reasoning, prediction, and action are represented as composable units. Intelligence is treated as a property that emerges from the interaction of such units over a shared substrate (world space) that supports self-consistent perception and action.
Abstractions
In the context of ICB, an abstraction is defined as a read–write unit of reality. Each abstraction is specified by its inputs, outputs, transformation and compositional rules, together with mechanisms for perception and action. Reading is defined as (including but not limited to) sensing, inference, and prediction over some digital or physical state space. Writing comprises (including but not limited to) execution through software and robotic agents acting in virtual and physical environments, respectively. Under this definition, abstractions include software systems, hardware systems, abstract subclasses, and corporate entities. All abstractions are accessed through a unified interface defined by ICB.
Abstractions are treated by ICB as first-class objects. ICB is responsible for ensuring formal rigor, interoperability, and composability across the abstraction space. When an abstraction enters operation, it is instantiated as a subsidiary entity and evaluated with respect to its operational constraints. The abstraction remains part of the parent system while its realization evolves independently, allowing abstractions to persist beyond individual instantiations and remain available for recomposition.
Infrastructure
ICB Intelligent eXchange (ICB IX) constitutes the digital infrastructure over which all abstractions are orchestrated. IX is defined as a general-purpose substrate coordinating computation, dataflow, and execution across heterogeneous hardware environments. Participation is determined by network addressability. Nodes may include general-purpose servers, embedded systems, workstations, or datacenter infrastructure.
Within IX, application interfaces, serverless functions, object storage, databases, and content delivery are composed within a single environment. Redundancy and fault tolerance emerge as properties of composition. As the set of abstractions expands and interoperation increases, the system supports higher-order coordination between perception, reasoning, and action. Taken together, ICB, its abstraction space, and IX form a unified system in which general intelligence is approached as an emergent property.
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