Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

An organization is a set of relationships that are persistent over time.

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

The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.