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

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.

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

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

Why fear feedback? Why stigmatize failure in the workplace when it's bringing you closer to achieving your organizational goals.