Kevin Kelly
Kevin Kelly
world becoming attention
The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
mind misunderstanding
We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.
organization environmental environment
The organization and the environment are in concert.
organization environmental turbulence
When a system is in turbulence, the turbulence is not just out there in the environment, but is a part of the organization or organism that you are looking at.
believe get-better impossible
We have to get better at believing the impossible.
environment broads organisms
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
long tails
The very long tail of the future is already here.
lessons evolution study
It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
wells can-do
Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.
organization persistent
An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.
trying literature environment
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
organization function anticipate
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
past organization way
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
children technology self
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.