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Kevin Kelly Quotes

American - Editor | August 14, 1952 -

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.

Today Tomorrow Environment You Say

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

Future Time Past Way Most Taking

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.

Lesson Evolution Become Study Around

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Environment Most Other Part Organism

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

Environment Sense Systems Organism

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.

Organization Looking Environment You

The organization and the environment are in concert.

Organization Environment Concert

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.

Impossible Understanding Environment

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Random You Paths Find Evolution Try

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas.

Organization Self Result Fall Say

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

Equality Possible Imaginable Equally

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.

Learning Future Science Society Mean

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