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.
Kevin Kelly
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
human world attention abundance
?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.
science social-media self-consciousness
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability
technology future
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
technology humanity
.. The proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.
ideas thinking
Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.
purpose technology posterity contentment
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.
ability evolution people history
rights computers power
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
change art
The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.
innovation nature system
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.
environment organization organizations change help
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.
environment change
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
environment change system
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
organization organizations change
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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