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Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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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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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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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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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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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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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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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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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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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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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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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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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 to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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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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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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