Kevin Kelly (editor) quotes

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abudance is human attention. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. View quote
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. View quote
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There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find a hive. View quote
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. View quote
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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
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. View quote
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And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. View quote
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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. View quote
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Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far. View quote
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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. View quote
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. View quote
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What humans can't engineer, evolution can. View quote
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In the network economy, producing and consuming fuse into a single verb: prosuming. Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment. View quote
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In the network economy a firm's primary focus shifts from maximizing the firm«s value to maximizing the network's value. View quote
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In the network economy, success is self-reinforcing; it obeys the law of increasing returns. The great innovation of Silicon Valley is not the wowie-zowie hardware and software it has invented. Silicon Valley's greatest "product" is the social organisation of its companies, and most important, the tangled web of former jobs, intimate colleagues, information leakage from one firm to the next, rapid company life cycles, and agile e mail culture. This social web, suffused into the warm hardware of jelly bean chips and copper neurons, creates a network economy. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
The capacity to evolve must be evolved itself. Evolution has been, and will keep on, exploring the space of possible evolutions. Organisms, memes, the whole ball of wax are only evolution's way to keep evolving. View quote
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"It works, why worry?" is life's deepest philosophy. View quote
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There's nothing more addictive than being a god. View quote
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Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living. View quote
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