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.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

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

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

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

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