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Organizations get invested into a particular product. And sometimes the best thing is to stop making that product, even though it's profitable, because it has optimized at a local peak. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#best #even #get #into #invested

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#allow #clearly #could #into #lives

The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#current #each #environment #evolve #full

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brought #computers #computing #confronted #control

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#certain #environment #going #just #like

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#arise #become #being #being overwhelmed #enough

The organization and the environment are in concert. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#environment #organization

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#actually #anticipating #because #evolution #future

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. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#just #looking #organism #organization #out