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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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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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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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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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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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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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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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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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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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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
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The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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The young are always coming up with the good ideas it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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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 to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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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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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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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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