Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. Kevin Kelly advancelivetechnological Change image and share on social
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment. Kevin Kelly changedealenvironment 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
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex. Kevin Kelly complexmake Change image and share on social
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. Kevin Kelly anticipatefunctionfuture Change image and share on social
Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. Kevin Kelly buildcomplexitylayer Change image and share on social
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here. Kevin Kelly anticipateevolutionfuture share on social
We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. Kevin Kelly infectmindmisunderstand 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'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