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

Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex.

Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.

Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

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

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

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