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It may just be another case of the "adjacent possible" principle at work.

• TeMPOraL 7y ago
  "Adjacent possible" is the case of one of the weirdest possible definition for a very simple concept. I see people quoting this: "The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself." (Whatever the hell that means.) Even though the concept is much simpler: "adjacent possible" is the set of things within reach. Or: all the things on the border between what we have, and what we could have.