The Very Long Tail Of The Future

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

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.

Changing Things From The Top Down Works When Things Are Stable.

In A Broad Systems Sense, An Organism's Environment Is Indistinguishable From The Organism Itself.

Your Greatest Job Is Shedding What You Don't Have To Do.