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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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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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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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Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented
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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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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.
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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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Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.
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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
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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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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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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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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 most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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