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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. – Kevin Kelly

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

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The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time. – Kevin Kelly

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If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that you have been set apart and that theres no will in this society to bring you back into the mainstream. – Jonathan Kozol

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[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. – J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977

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I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life – to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from ones neighbors. – Robert W. Service

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Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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