We are reaching deep within ourselves to adjust the master knob.

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

The very long tail of the future is already here.

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

We're just at the beginning of the beginning of all these kind of changes. There's a sense that all the big things have happened, but relatively speaking, nothing big has happened yet. In 20 years from now we'll look back and say, 'Well, nothing really happened in the last 20 years.'

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

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.