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Kevin Kelly

"The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time."

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"The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time."

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"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."
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"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."
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"In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself."
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"Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design."
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"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."
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"Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better."
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"Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far."
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"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."
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