This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“The internet is still at the beginning of its beginning. It is only becoming. If we could climb into a time machine,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“When copies are free, you need to sell things that cannot be copied. Well, what can’t be copied? Trust, for instance.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“We have no certainty we’ll contact extraterrestrial beings from one of the billion earthlike planets in the sky in the next 200 years, but… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“Our most important mechanical inventions are not machines that do what humans do better, but machines that can do things we can’t do at… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“In the universal library, no book will be an island. It’s all connected.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
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… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have “published” at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
