The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

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.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.