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

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment.

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine.

A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common history, that constrains your evolution and your ability to evolve in certain directions.