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
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. Kevin Kelly abilitycommonconstrain 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
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. Kevin Kelly distributeintelligenceorganization Change image and share on social
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. Kevin Kelly environmentpartthing Change image and 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
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
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. Kevin Kelly consistenvironmentorganism Change image and 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
