Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

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

The young are always coming up with the good ideas; it's because they waste time. They follow their passion and do something, not looking for a payoff, just doing what's interesting.

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.