Softball Isn't Just A Game It's Away

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 That Organizations And Organisms Anticipate The Future Is By Taking Signals From The Past, Most The Time.

Extrapolated, Technology Wants What Life Wants: Increasing Efficiency Increasing Opportunity Increasing Emergence Increasing Complexity Increasing Diversity Increasing Specialization Increasing Ubiquity Increasing Freedom Increasing Mutualism Increasing Beauty Increasing Sentience Increasing Structure Increasing Evolvability

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.

Wherever The Net Arises, There Arises Also A Rebel To Resist Human Control...a Network Nurtures Small Failures In Order That Large Failures Don't Happen As Often. It Is...fertile Ground For Learning, Adaptation, And Evolution...the Only Organization Capable Of Unprejudiced Growth, Or Unguided Learning, Is A Network. All Other Topologies Limit What Can Happen.