Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

Our society lacks a feedback loop for controlling technology: a way to gauge intended effects from actual effects later on

Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

The very long tail of the future is already here.

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.