Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent.

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 ability to evolve in certain directions.

Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

We are infected by our own misunderstandin g of how our own minds work.

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.

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.