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

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

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

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."