We Are Infected By Our Own Misunderstandin

We Have To Get Better At Believing The Impossible.

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.

We're Just At The Beginning Of The Beginning Of All These Kind Of Changes. There's A Sense That All The Big Things Have Happened, But Relatively Speaking, Nothing Big Has Happened Yet. In 20 Years From Now We'll Look Back And Say, 'well, Nothing Really Happened In The Last 20 Years.'

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.

The Way To Build A Complex System That Works Is To Build It From Very Simple Systems That Work.