3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly An organization’s intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly 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.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
3 December 2020 Kevin Kelly 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.