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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brou...

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

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All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

The nature of an innovation is that it will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalen...

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An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in rela...

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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

But when you are embodied in a location, in a physical plant, in a set of people, and in a common hi...

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Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

What Technology Wants

...the proper response to a lousy idea is not to stop thinking. It is to come up with a better idea.

What Technology Wants

Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full c...

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Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing...

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What Technology Wants

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

A complaint is a unique opportunity to strengthen the relationship with the client.

DO! The Pursuit of Xceptional Execution

‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror?...The chameleon responding to its own shifting image ...

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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not ...

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Kevin Kelly (editor)

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Born: 1952-08-14

Died: N/A

Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. Kelly is considered an expert in digital culture, and is said to have helped make technology part of popular culture.More