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In Darwin’s language, the open connections of the tangled bank have been just as generative as the war of nature. Stephen Jay Gould makes this point powerfully in the allegory of his sandal collection: “The wedge of competition has been, ever since Darwin, the canonical argument for progress in normal times,” he writes. “But I will claim that the w
... See moreSteven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Citizens who thrive in the global society will identify themselves globally. They will make political, social, and economic choices based not on national identity, but on how those choices relate to themselves directly and to people like them around the world.… Nations and corporations who thrive will organize themselves accordingly. They will maxi
... See moreJames Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Whoever believes in progress believes that geographical discoveries, technological inventions and organisational developments can increase the sum total of human production, trade and wealth.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
Richard Dawkins’s Unweaving the Rainbow,
Steven Pinker • The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
a supposed designer of our biosphere will seem not only morally deficient, but intellectually unremarkable.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
A central debate within Darwinism concerns the unit that is actually selected: what kind of entity is it that survives, or does not survive, as a consequence of natural selection.
Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene
Anticipating what people want is something innovators are often good at;
Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom
He was saying that the only way to understand organisms was to see them as mortal and temporary vehicles used to perpetuate effectively immortal digital sequences written in DNA. A