The Very Long Tail Of The Future

It Has Become Evident That The Primary Lesson Of The Study Of Evolution Is That All Evolution Is Coevolution: Every Organism Is Evolving In Tandem With The Organisms Around It.

And They Discovered Something Very Interesting: When It Comes To Walking, Most Of The Ant's Thinking And Decision-making Is Not In Its Brain At All. It's Distributed. It's In Its Legs.

Managing Bottom-up Change Is Its Own Art.

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.

It's More Along The Lines Of Raising A Child: We Train The System To A Certain Range Of Behaviors That We Find Most Useful. But Then We Let It Go, Because We Don't Want To Have To Be Babysitting It The Whole Time.