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. Kevin Kelly arisebrainkind share on social
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better. Kevin Kelly attemptexploitmake Change image and share on social
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. Kevin Kelly organizationpersistentrelationship Change image and share on social
All imaginable futures are not equally possible. Kevin Kelly equallyfutureimaginable Change image and share on social
Managing bottom-up change is its own art. Kevin Kelly artbottomchange Change image and share on social
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. Kevin Kelly babysitbehaviorchild share on social
The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. Kevin Kelly currentenvironmentevolve Change image and share on social
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. Kevin Kelly basisbondchemical share on social
The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work. Kevin Kelly buildcomplexsimple Change image and share on social
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. Kevin Kelly areaattractionbasin share on social
