The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient. Kevin Kelly choicecontinuallycontinue Change image and share on social
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 advancebringcompute share on social
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. Kevin Kelly anticipatefutureorganism Change image and share on social
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. Kevin Kelly distributeintelligenceorganization Change image and share on social
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. Kevin Kelly consistenvironmentorganism Change image and share on social
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. Kevin Kelly antbraindecision Change image and share on social
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 coevolutionevidentevolution Change image and share on social
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. Kevin Kelly anticipatechangeenvironment Change image and share on social
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 authoritybottomcentral share on social
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself. Kevin Kelly broadenvironmentindistinguishable Change image and share on social
