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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.
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The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak.
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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
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It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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