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

One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time. – Kevin Kelly

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesnt mean we can get there from here. – Kevin Kelly