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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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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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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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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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When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
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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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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense it cares about what works
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Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.
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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 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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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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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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The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen
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Willingness to learn is important, but willingness to act on what you learn is critical.
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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.
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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
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Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
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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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