Well, here's what you can do, and that's about it.

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.

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

Wherever the Net arises, there arises also a rebel to resist human control...A network nurtures small failures in order that large failures don't happen as often. It is...fertile ground for learning, adaptation, and evolution...The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All other topologies limit what can happen.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.