Quotes About Adaptation

The nature of an innovation is that is will arise at a fringe where it can afford to become prevalent enough to establish its usefulness without being overwhelmed by the inertia of the orthodox system.

Given enough time, decentralized connected dumb things can become smarter than we think. Second

She never falls, but never gets out of falling. It's a state of permanent almost-fell.

Perhaps the most useful lesson of coevolution for "wannabe" gods is that in coevolutionary worlds control and secrecy are counterproductive.

neither dystopia nor utopia is our destination. Rather, technology is taking us to protopia. More accurately, we have already arrived in protopia.

So much more of our routines and infrastructure remains to be liquefied

We don't need to be blind to this continuous process. The rate of change in recent times has been unprecedented, which caught us off guard. But now we know: We are, and will remain, perpetual newbies. We need to believe in improbable things more often. Everything is in flux, and the new forms will be an uncomfortable remix of the old. With effort and imagination we can learn to discern what's ahead more clearly, without blinders.

Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

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Get the ongoing process right and it will keep generating ongoing benefits. In our new era, processes trump products. This

In the next 30 years we will continue to take solid things—an automobile, a shoe—and turn them into intangible verbs. Products will become services and processes. Embedded with high doses of technology, an automobile becomes a transportation service, a continuously updated sequence of materials rapidly adapting to customer usage, feedback, competition, innovation, and wear.

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

We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them.

This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. This is a race with the machines. You'll be paid in the future based on how well you work with robots. Ninety percent of your coworkers will be unseen machines.

Evolution doesn't care about what makes sense; it cares about what works

There is no way that you can change anyone else's behavior. You can only change your own and when you make a genuine effort to do that, the strangest thing happens. It allows the other people in your life to make the behavior changes you've been hoping for.

Growing up in a family is a lot like stepping onto that stage in which everyone is ad-libbing. You have a part to play, but it's difficult to say at first exactly what it is because no one receives a script at birth. So you spend years figuring out what your role is without stepping on anyone else's toes.

So computer companies, listening to their existing customers, didn't

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

It amazed Izzy the way the children rushed through so many complicated emotions without space between each one. Everything rose so quickly to the surface and then subsided, like firecrackers, and what had originally been so jarring to her, their unguarded emotion, now filled her with great comfort, that anything, no matter what it was, would eventually give way to something else.

the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.

And how easy do you think it is to obtain it? Like, do you think I can just find child sizes of Nomex clothing at Walmart? Like, for tiny firefighters? I'm having to get it altered. It's complicated. I'm being pushed to my limits in terms of thinking creatively about our situation.

Daylight Savings" Like the money the light doesn't go as far these days

[A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields....