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.
From Kevin Kelly
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.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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.
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
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.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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