All Kevin Kelly Quotes
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
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This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
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The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.
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An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
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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.
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Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.
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Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.
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The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
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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.
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It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.
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Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
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