Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin KellyThe smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.
Kevin KellyโWhat 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.
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