Quote by Kevin Kelly
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is

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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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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Society
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We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work. – Kevin Kelly

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work
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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

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Future
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We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children. – Kofi Annan

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Future

Though I was excited about the Sojourner Truth play, it was not reassuring to think that my entire future might depend on the success of that one show. – Ethel Waters

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Future

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

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Future

Im not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. – Wilbur Smith

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Future

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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years. – Isaac Hanson

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