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Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
- Kevin Kelly
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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
- Kevin Kelly
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
- Kevin Kelly
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
- Kevin Kelly
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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.
- Kevin Kelly
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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
- Kevin Kelly
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
- Kevin Kelly
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Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.
- Kevin Kelly
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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
- Kevin Kelly
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
- Kevin Kelly
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
- Kevin Kelly
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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.
- Kevin Kelly
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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.
- Kevin Kelly
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
- Kevin Kelly
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
- Kevin Kelly
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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.
- Kevin Kelly
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The organization and the environment are in concert.
- Kevin Kelly
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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.
- Kevin Kelly
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
- Kevin Kelly
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The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
- Kevin Kelly
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An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
- Kevin Kelly
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
- Kevin Kelly
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Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
- Kevin Kelly
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
- Kevin Kelly
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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
- Kevin Kelly
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
- Kevin Kelly
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