Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are pa... by Kevin Kelly

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

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The organization and the environment are in concert. by Kevin Kelly

The organization and the environment are in concert.

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It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference. by Kevin Kelly

It is easy to make a dollar but it is hard to make a difference.

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We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds... by Kevin Kelly

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

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Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it. by Kevin Kelly

Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob. by Kevin Kelly

We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

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Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction w... by Kevin Kelly

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

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This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

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Technology is anything that doesn't work yet. by Kevin Kelly

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a... by Kevin Kelly

I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.

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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

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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.

able organization literature

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.

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Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about wha... by Kevin Kelly

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

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‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

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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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Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your opt... by Kevin Kelly

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

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Softball isn't just a game it's away of life. by Kevin Kelly

Softball isn't just a game it's away of life.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

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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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We tend to think of the mind of an organization residing in the CEO and the organization's top managers, perhaps with the help of outside consultants that they call in. But that is not really how an organization thinks.

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