The Very Long Tail Of The Future

An Organization's Intelligence Is Distributed To The Point Of Being Ubiquitous.

The Current Understanding Was That It Was Impossible To Predict How Something Would Evolve Because It Was A Very Turbulent Environment Full Of Things Interacting With Each Other.

The Daily Grinding Of Evolution, As Accelerated By Technology, Churns Out More And More Complex Organisms, With Higher Rates Of Energy Use, And With Increasing Specialization. Minds Are The Ideal Way To Express Complexity, Energy Density, Increasing Specialization, Expanding Diversity -- All In One System. Mindedness Is What Evolution Produces. Mindedness Is What Technology Wants, Too.

Attention Deficit Is No Longer The Supposed Domain Of Generation Y's Who Were Brought Up On A Diet Of Social Media And New Technology. A Recent Study Revealed 65 Percent Of 55-64 Year Olds Surf, Text And Watch Television Simultaneously.

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 Doesn't Mean We Can Get There From Here.