“An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.”
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The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment.
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.