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

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

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.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

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.

This is the culmination of a lot of people's vision. I think this is just another step towards making Central Michigan football among the elite programs in the Mid-American Conference.

Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.