Humans Are The Reproductive Organs Of Technology.

Preserve The Core, And Let The Rest Flux. In Their Wonderful Bestseller Built To Last, Authors James Collins And Jerry Porras Make A Convincing Argument That Long-lived Companies Are Able To Thrive 50 Years Or More By Retaining A Very Small Heart Of Unchanging Values, And Then Stimulating Progress In Everything Else. At Times "everything" Includes Changing The Business The Company Operates In, Migrating, Say, From Mining To Insurance. Outside The Core Of Values, Nothing Should Be Exempt From Flux. Nothing.

Life Is The Ultimate Technology. Machine Technology Is A Temporary Surrogate For Life Technology. As We Improve Our Machines They Will Become More Organic, More Biological, More Like Life, Because Life Is The Best Technology For Living.

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.

When A System Is In Turbulence, The Turbulence Is Not Just Out There In The Environment, But Is A Part Of The Organization Or Organism That You Are Looking At.

Managing Bottom-up Change Is Its Own Art.