"What color is a chameleon placed on a……" — Kevin Kelly
"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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46 Quotes by Kevin Kelly
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I work in a "you scratch my back, and I'll stab yours" kind of a place.
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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not…
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In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
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Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
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One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can…
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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
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