There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs.

Since a relationship involves two members investing in it, its value increases twice as fast as one's investment.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

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