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

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

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

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