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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... →
Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.
An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
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.
The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
The organization and the environment are in concert.
But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your... →
Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot... →
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... →
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