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Life is a verb not a noun. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Urbanization is the advent of edge species. View quote
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The work of managing a natural environment is inescapably a work of local knowledge. View quote
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The quickest route to describing a seed's output is to sprout it. View quote
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Telling the future is what organisms are for. View quote
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When everything happens at once, wide and fast moving problems simply route around any central authority. Therefore overall governance must arise from the most humble interdependent acts done locally in parallel, and not from a central command. View quote
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Communication – which in the end is what the digital technology and media are all about – is not just a sector of the economy. Communication IS the economy. View quote
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The dynamic of our society, and particularly our new economy, will increasingly obey the logic of networks. Understanding how networks work will be the key to understanding how the economy works. View quote
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The aim of swarm power is superior performance in a turbulent environment. View quote
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Complete surrender to the bottom is not what embracing swarm power is about. View quote
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At present there is far more to be gained by pushing the boundaries of what can be done by the bottom than by focusing on what can be done at the top. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Mathematics says the sum value of a network increases as the square of the number of members. In other words, as the number of nodes in a network increases arithmetically, the value of the network increases exponentially. Adding a few more members can dramatically increase the value of the network. View quote
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The value of a network explodes as its membership increases, and then the value explosion sucks in yet more members, compounding the result. View quote
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It's a "hits" economy where resources flow to those that show some life. If a new novel, new product, or new service begins to succeed it is fed more; if it falters its left to wither. View quote
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Every time a closed system opens, it begins to interact more directly with other existing systems, and therefore acquires all the value of those systems. View quote
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The value of an invention, company or technology increases exponentially as the number of systems in participates with increases linearly. View quote
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The law of plentitude is most accurately rendered thus: In a network, the more opportunities that are taken, the faster new opportunities arise. View quote
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Because prices move inexorably towards the free, the best move in the network economy is to anticipate this cheapness. View quote
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If goods and services become more valuable as they become more plentiful, and if they become cheaper as they become valuable, then the natural extension of this logic says that the most valuable things of all should be those that are ubiquitous and free. View quote
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Following the free also works in the other direction. If one way to increase product value is to make products free, then many things now free may contain potential value not yet perceived. View quote
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The migration from ad hoc use to commercialisation cannot be rushed. To reach ubiquity you have to pass through sharing. (Kevin Kelly (editor))
Individual allegiance moves away from firms and toward networks and network platforms. View quote
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As more of the economy migrates to intangibles, more of the economy will require standards. View quote
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Letting go at the top is not an act against perfection, but against short-sightedness. View quote
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Because skill guilds constrain (and defend) an organisation, it is often far easier to start a new organisation than to change a successful old one. View quote
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