Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
continue cost either exploit known less system
The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.
above adding base beyond client growing services versa
We're growing everything we do by adding complementary services above and beyond what we do for our client base and vice versa for IP's clients.
technology humans organs
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.
technology diversity mind
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.
technology winning games
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.
technology opportunity ubiquity
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability
systematic outcomes research
Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.
today tomorrow environment
The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part.
inspirational life years
Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."
technology mind usefulness
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.
order organization growth
Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.
jobs
Your greatest job is shedding what you don't have to do.
interesting environment most-interesting
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
technology machines life-is
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.