The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

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

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

Much of outcomes research is a systematic attempt to exploit what is known and make it better.