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Nobody is as smart as everybody.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
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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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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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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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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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I work in a you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours kind of a place.
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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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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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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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
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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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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
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