Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
All imaginable futures are not equally possible.
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
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...
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 smar...
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 stee...
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.
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.
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...
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of...
A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.
...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncre...
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash ou...
