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.

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 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.

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

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

We have to get better at believing the impossible.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.