Kevin Kelly

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#technology #technology

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#over #persistent #relationships #set #time

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#down #stable #things #top #works

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

#any #being #change #deal #each

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

#brain #comes #decision-making #discovered #distributed

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#certain #common #directions #embodied #evolution

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#distributed #intelligence #organization #point #ubiquitous

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#complexity #layered #modules #other #out

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#each #environment #most #organism #organisms

All imaginable futures are not equally possible. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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