tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27728643854946392942011-10-04T10:20:09.827-07:00<a href="http://www.blogged.com/blogs/andres-agostinis-official-press.html"> <img src="http://www.blogged.com/icons/vn_andresa3_1328434.gif" border="0" alt="Andres Agostinis Official Press Room !!! - Blogged" title="Andres Agostinis Official Press Room !!! - Blogged"></a>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-72350138764829855722011-01-06T16:14:00.001-08:002011-01-06T16:14:24.826-08:00Check out this SlideShare Presentation: <div style="width:477px" id="__ss_6164496"><strong style="display:block;margin:12px 0 4px"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/future-6164496" title="Futuretronium Book 100.0 (The Revolution II)! By Andres Agostini at http://linkd.in/9wp7bP &amp; http://bit.ly/hbCcL5 &amp; http://bit.ly/foZGYz &amp; http://bit.ly/dAmsCS &amp; http://bit.ly/dgNeS3">Futuretronium Book 100.0 (The Revolution II)! By Andres Agostini at http://linkd.in/9wp7bP &amp; http://bit.ly/hbCcL5 &amp; http://bit.ly/foZGYz &amp; http://bit.ly/dAmsCS &amp; http://bit.ly/dgNeS3</a></strong><object id="__sse6164496" width="477" height="510"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/doc_player.swf?doc=future-101214143400-phpapp01&stripped_title=future-6164496&userName=andresagostini" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed name="__sse6164496" src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/doc_player.swf?doc=future-101214143400-phpapp01&stripped_title=future-6164496&userName=andresagostini" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="510"></embed></object><div style="padding:5px 0 12px">View more <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/">documents</a> from <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini">Andres Agostini, Polymath Futurist</a>.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-7235013876482985572?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-10117682983735323452010-12-27T00:25:00.005-08:002010-12-27T00:25:56.755-08:00Dynamicist Thinking<br />“God-less uncertainty” Thinking<br />Multiple-angles Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1011768298373532345?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-31816986246299221482010-12-27T00:25:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:25:26.956-08:00Scenarist Thinking<br />Innovist Thinking<br />Breakthroughist Thinking<br />Creativist Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3181698624629922148?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-43354340531371614832010-12-27T00:25:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:25:01.616-08:00“Brain preparedness in advance” Thinking<br />“Grapple with complexity” Thinking<br />Singularist Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-4335434053137161483?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-29210437642580459692010-12-27T00:24:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:24:40.949-08:00Fundamental-change Thinking<br />Religiosity Thinking<br />Non-religiosity Thinking<br />Pluralist Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2921043764258045969?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-72499197446048734312010-12-27T00:24:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:24:05.069-08:00“CompetitivePerformance knowledge” Thinking<br />ContinualAnalysis Thinking<br />NeverEnding Thinking<br />Paradigm-shift Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-7249919744604873431?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-52625070485081489232010-12-27T00:23:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:23:00.802-08:00“Intensive care medical director” Thinking<br />“Comparative-performance knowledge” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5262507048508148923?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-39640659284502113602010-12-27T00:22:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:22:23.095-08:00“Senior medical intensivist” Thinking<br />“Senior military surgeon” Thinking<br />“Intensive care medical director” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3964065928450211360?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-5252911486959212022010-12-27T00:21:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:21:42.753-08:00“Self-Enculturated into Science, Engineering and Systems” Thinking<br />“Senior medical intensivist” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-525291148695921202?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-24138211167022228112010-12-27T00:21:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:21:15.229-08:00Ostracized-out Thinking<br />Ostracized-in Thinking<br />“Dynamic Complexity” Thinking<br />“Detail complexity” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2413821116702222811?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-89180591797186995222010-12-27T00:20:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:20:48.484-08:00Omni-perspective Thinking<br />Pluri-“Mental-Filter” Thinking<br />Contemplative Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8918059179718699522?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-42696135024615324022010-12-27T00:20:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:20:31.398-08:00Multi-level Thinking<br />Multi-scale Thinking<br />Multi-nuance Thinking<br />Multi-context Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-4269613502461532402?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-6735744327904220242010-12-27T00:19:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:19:51.698-08:00Interdepartmental Thinking<br />Intradepartmental Thinking<br />Omnidepartmental Thinking<br />Nondepartmental Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-673574432790422024?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-16525902832535431432010-12-27T00:19:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:19:29.421-08:00Non-proforma Thinking<br />Continuum Thinking<br />Continuous Thinking<br />Asynchronous Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1652590283253543143?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-71688644568194124602010-12-27T00:18:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:18:52.586-08:00Boundarylessness Thinking<br />Convex Thinking<br />Concave Thinking<br />Ostracized Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-7168864456819412460?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-20391390979172236912010-12-27T00:18:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:18:23.573-08:00“Narrative data-driven” Thinking<br />Self-upgrading Thinking<br />Coextensive Thinking<br />Non-coextensive Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2039139097917223691?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-90708247761452870672010-12-27T00:17:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:17:50.284-08:00“Numerical data-driven” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-9070824776145287067?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-51839530133989046982010-12-27T00:17:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:17:31.053-08:00“Amplest Nuance” Thinking<br />“Most Focused Nuance” Thinking<br />ConstructiveFeedback Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5183953013398904698?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-76622472972358985602010-12-27T00:16:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:16:30.670-08:00“Facilitate the expanded involvement of practitioners” Thinking<br />Nondelegate Thinking<br />Nuance Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-7662247297235898560?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-11307742533404207032010-12-27T00:16:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:16:03.994-08:00Armed-with-information Thinking<br />“Shrinking resources and precious little time” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1130774253340420703?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-80941936304000568682010-12-27T00:15:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:15:20.061-08:00Reverse-Engineering Thinking<br />Critical Thinking<br />Sense-of-urgency Thinking<br />See-through-the-strategy-soonest Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8094193630400056868?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-28966681213648256882010-12-27T00:14:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:14:52.154-08:00Multimedia-vision Thinking<br />“Out-There” Thinker’s Thinking<br />Road-map Thinking<br />“Creative Destruction” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2896668121364825688?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-36040422344371809412010-12-27T00:14:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:14:05.763-08:00Alternatives-Exploring Thinking<br />System-wide Thinking<br />“Support Learning and Change” Thinking<br />Specificity Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3604042234437180941?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-47556936574292835802010-12-27T00:13:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:13:26.588-08:00Hindsight Thinking<br />Multifaceted Thinking<br />Wholeness Thinking<br />“Continuous Improvement and Innovation” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-4755693657429283580?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-83869633472871287002010-12-27T00:12:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:12:50.502-08:00MatrixManagement Thinking<br />Interconnected Thinking<br />Submarine Thinking<br />Interdependency Thinking<br />Forethought Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8386963347287128700?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-56802798108842866692010-12-27T00:12:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:12:01.282-08:00Radar Thinking<br />Hummingbird Thinking<br />Horse-seeing Thinking<br />Helicopter Thinking<br />Submarine Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5680279810884286669?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-26508677037241276502010-12-27T00:11:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:11:00.768-08:00Pluri-Intent Thinking<br />GPS Thinking<br />Sonar Thinking<br />Radar Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2650867703724127650?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-68197135999660331242010-12-27T00:10:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:10:31.588-08:00Harmonic Thinking<br />Counter-seeing Thinking<br />Counter-envisioning Thinking<br />Multi-Range Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-6819713599966033124?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-20411706099857037752010-12-27T00:10:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:10:07.671-08:00Compounded Thinking<br />Parenthetical Thinking<br />Inventor’s Thinking<br />Discoverer’s Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2041170609985703775?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-28351230386308366062010-12-27T00:09:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:09:36.986-08:00Throughout Thinking<br />“Alpha and Omega” Thinking<br />Composite Thinking<br />Aggregated Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2835123038630836606?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-53127371281581070032010-12-27T00:09:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:09:04.793-08:00Engineering Thinking<br />Re-Engineering Thinking<br />“Overhauled Re-Engineering” Thinking<br />Systems Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5312737128158107003?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-36051311047905051752010-12-27T00:08:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:08:38.870-08:00In-Series Thinking<br />In-Parallel Thinking<br />Microscopic Thinking<br />Macroscopic Thinking<br />Telescopic Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3605131104790505175?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-80595522711620497282010-12-27T00:08:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:08:07.836-08:00“Applied Omniscience Knowledge” Thinking<br />Hyper-Geometrical Thinking<br />Dense Thinking<br />Multi-tasking Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8059552271162049728?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-16397064775978016132010-12-27T00:07:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:07:36.696-08:00Preter-Naturalist Thinking<br />Spacewalk Thinking<br />Discontinuous-Progression Thinking<br />Exuberant Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1639706477597801613?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-10257915725363172582010-12-27T00:07:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:07:04.092-08:00Cosmological Thinking<br />Comprehensive Thinking<br />Interdisciplinary Thinking<br />Exploratory Thinking<br />Naturalist Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1025791572536317258?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-77201388242499561322010-12-27T00:06:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:06:10.215-08:00“Pre Mortem” Thinking<br />Pre-“Post Mortem” Thinking<br />“Primum nocere” Thinking<br />“Primum non nocere” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-7720138824249956132?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-38519371722482706862010-12-27T00:05:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:05:46.263-08:00Illogicality Thinking<br />Throughput Thinking<br />Multi-Perspective Thinking<br />Pseudo-Serendipitous Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3851937172248270686?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-17727032403554719772010-12-27T00:05:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:05:17.090-08:00Undreamed-of Thinking<br />Un-daydreamed-of Thinking<br />Heterodox Thinking<br />Un-Commonsensical Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1772703240355471977?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-69635965011659089742010-12-27T00:04:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:04:46.249-08:00Preemptive Thinking<br />Counter-Intuitiveness Thinking<br />Womb-to-tomb Thinking<br />Unthinkable Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-6963596501165908974?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-81259609466412110482010-12-27T00:04:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:04:04.979-08:00“Pre Mortem” Thinking<br />Forensic Thinking<br />Pre-Forensic Thinking<br />“Short-Term and Long-Term” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8125960946641211048?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-25305466783513195752010-12-27T00:03:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:03:26.904-08:00“Against Inexpensive” Thinking<br />In-Advance Thinking<br />Early-On Thinking<br />“Post Mortem” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2530546678351319575?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-68441105096442653052010-12-27T00:02:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:02:51.622-08:00“Against the whole cliche of the moment” Thinking<br />“Against Sloppy,Emotional” Thinking<br />“Against Fashionable” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-6844110509644265305?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-88408811322600844322010-12-27T00:02:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:02:20.381-08:00Multidimensional Thinking<br />Cross-Functional Thinking<br />Trans-Contextual Thinking<br />Cross-Referenced Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8840881132260084432?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-86325961917679112632010-12-27T00:01:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:01:43.667-08:00Peripheral Thinking<br />Epicentric Thinking<br />Multi-Level Thinking<br />Pluri-Filter Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8632596191767911263?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-52658880766864588882010-12-27T00:01:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:01:13.223-08:00“À la Quantum Mechanics” Thinking<br />“A Priori” Thinking<br />“A Posteriori” Thinking<br />“A Cappella” Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5265888076686458888?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-55353459881621736982010-12-27T00:00:00.003-08:002010-12-27T00:00:50.822-08:00Non-Linear Thinking <br />Scenario-Method Thinking<br />Unconventional Thinking<br />Unorthodox Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5535345988162173698?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-26102897606297738312010-12-27T00:00:00.001-08:002010-12-27T00:00:02.663-08:00“Edisonian research” Thinking<br />Epidemiologic Thinking<br />Entomological Thinking<br />Fuzzy-Logic Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2610289760629773831?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-40691183624520258112010-12-26T23:59:00.001-08:002010-12-26T23:59:23.306-08:00Unconventionally-Uncommon Thinking<br />Weirdo’s Thinking<br />“Rara Avis” Thinking<br />Gestalt Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-4069118362452025811?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-53566904258042105022010-12-26T23:58:00.003-08:002010-12-26T23:58:54.627-08:00Factory Thinking<br />Surprise-Free Thinking<br />Through-Paradoxes Thinking<br />Qualitative Thinking<br />Quantitative Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-5356690425804210502?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-13106849053011049912010-12-26T23:58:00.001-08:002010-12-26T23:58:02.468-08:00“Terra Incognita” Thinking<br />Weird Science's Thinking<br />“Einsteinian Gedanke” Thinking<br />Ecological Thinking<br /><a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1310684905301104991?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-6005145906709911592010-12-26T23:43:00.001-08:002010-12-26T23:43:52.991-08:00But these rapid, bewildering changes are not just quantitative. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-600514590670991159?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-8610419289158238282010-12-25T18:33:00.009-08:002010-12-25T18:33:39.639-08:00But these rapid, bewildering changes are not just quantitative. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-861041928915823828?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-33026853193705901172010-12-25T18:33:00.007-08:002010-12-25T18:33:28.006-08:00THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3302685319370590117?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-69542923459342173092010-12-25T18:33:00.005-08:002010-12-25T18:33:24.962-08:00THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-6954292345934217309?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-21309235069011340942010-12-25T18:33:00.003-08:002010-12-25T18:33:10.869-08:00COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2130923506901134094?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-85753677806547887762010-12-25T18:33:00.001-08:002010-12-25T18:33:02.463-08:00HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS]. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-8575367780654788776?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-62934239614382813102010-12-25T18:32:00.007-08:002010-12-25T18:32:54.064-08:00Too much of education is based on yesterday not tomorrow. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-6293423961438281310?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-38133528181136379042010-12-25T18:32:00.005-08:002010-12-25T18:32:45.125-08:00new ideas, fresh innovations will emerge <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3813352818113637904?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-22189347239198143342010-12-25T18:32:00.003-08:002010-12-25T18:32:36.587-08:00We live in a constant, churning, changing environment. <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2218934723919814334?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-19408130047455244172010-12-25T18:32:00.001-08:002010-12-25T18:32:03.336-08:00“In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable.” <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1940813004745524417?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-23543461515812040042010-12-25T18:30:00.001-08:002010-12-25T18:30:34.097-08:00PostMortem analyzes are indispensable.Yet preMortem analyzes (esp. the qualitatively driven ones) are beyond grandiose.<a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-2354346151581204004?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-19264007564614269652010-12-25T18:29:00.005-08:002010-12-25T18:29:48.103-08:00Under the highest analysis and in actuality, your worst “sworn out” enemy is the one living by mediocrity and ignorance.<a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-1926400756461426965?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-91400894780371695602010-12-25T18:29:00.003-08:002010-12-25T18:29:32.511-08:00the only way to operate is (i) cross-functional, (ii) multidimensional and (iii) pluri-contextual <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-9140089478037169560?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-34143214980291454752010-12-25T18:29:00.001-08:002010-12-25T18:29:05.949-08:00They don't understand and will never understand the pontificated maxim, “everything is related to everything else.” <a href="http://tiny.cc/9mv4f">http://tiny.cc/9mv4f</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2772864385494639294-3414321498029145475?l=agostiniworks.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Andy - Andres Agostini- Science, Technology, Management, Risk Management, Scenario Methods, Project Management, High-Tech Visionary, Writer, Editor, Research Strategist, Analyst, Adviser, Coach....http://www.blogger.com/profile/12045719180505740813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2772864385494639294.post-8348805002112933882010-07-31T18:40:00.000-07:002010-08-01T15:18:33.128-07:00<div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >Part 1 of 2</span></span> <br /> <br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">FUTURETRONIUM^® <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"> <br /><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="" lang="EN-US">#1 FUTURETRONIUM^® AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND APPLICATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD WITHOUT INNUENDOS AND IN CRESCENDO AS FLUID POINTS OF INFLECTIONS ASCERTAIN THAT THE MORROW IS A THING OF THE PAST. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">#2 FUTURETRONIUM^®. <span style=""> </span>SUBSEQUENTLY, THERE IS NOW AND HERE AVAILABLE THE UNABRIDGED, AUTHORITATIVE ELICITATION AND ELUCIDATION OF ACTIONABLE KNOWLEDGE FROM AND FOR THE INCESSANTLY ARRHYTHMIC, ABRUPT, ANTAGONISTIC, MORDANT, CAUSTIC AND ANARCHISTIC FUTURE, AS WELL AS THE CONTENTIOUS INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCH FUTURE AND THE PRESENT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">#3 FUTURETRONIUM</span><b style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">^®</b><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">,</span><b style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"> A RADICAL YET RIGOROUS STRONG-SENSE AND CRITICO-CREATIVE FUTURES THINKING APPROACH TO QUINTESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMPLEXITIES, SUBTLETIES, INTRICACIES, AND SUBLIMITIES, AS WELL AS THE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE EXPLOITED OUT OF THE DRIVING FORCES INSTILLING AND INFLICTING PERPETUAL CHANGE INTO TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY.</span></span> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">By (c) Copyright 2010 by Andres Agostini ― All Rights Reserved ―<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Http://Futuretronium.blogspot.com/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:red;">(This Proprietary Encyclopedia may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Forget what you know and just believe in what you see and sense. It’s time for you to conceive, develop and institute your own Futures – exploiting the upsides and downsides of the surreptitiously covert ones – unless you will make yourself enslaved by circumstances beyond your control. Kindly please make your choices wisely and by you and for yourself!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I can offer this perspective as of now and under my human and humane perspective. I do like a great deal science and technology, but only to the truest service of the global civilization. Nonetheless, if you want to “reality check” these reflections, you will be able, very soon, to have every detailed explanation by an omniscient robot if you indefinitely postpone to do your own independent research, done for and by you (as of now).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Go to any “snail paced” newspapers in a developing country and this you’ll find within the daily headlines: Fiction immensely superseded – through many orders of magnitudes – by incontrovertible and yet the most dramatic realities. People kind of see a part of the waves but are infamously unaware that most pervasive currents underneath are the true dynamos of these swirling changed changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I just wonder: Is it about Scientific Method or is it about Scientific Method Under The Tutelage Applied Omniscience and With The Application of The Systems Methodology Approach? I designed, to this effect, this illustration viewable at http://bit.ly/d6d84w<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Before we proceed any further, please always remember the following.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is related to everything else.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> And to make matters worse, they will deploy and enforce universal and devastating imprudence, imprudence, imprudence and more imprudence. That imprudence so readily activated by the baseness-focused “practitioner.” When invoking <i>“Everything is related to everything else,” </i>it is succinctly to say (that is) by way of example:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is interrelated to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is connected to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is interconnected to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is intricate to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is involved in everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is inter-associated to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is interlocked to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is inter-coupled to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is inter-joined to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is conjoint to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is inter-tied to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is interdependent to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is correlated to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is intertwined with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is intermeshed with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is implicated in everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is entangled with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is entwined with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is tangled with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is knotted with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is interwoven into everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is engaged with everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is parenthetic to everything else.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Everything is related to everything else” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">does not make any sense at all for people who have chosen not to get educated and self-educated on indispensable basic science.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">CONTENTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">1.- The Imperative <i>Nota Bene</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">2.- Objective<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">3.- Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">4.- The Challenge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">5.- Epic Omission(s)?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">6.- The Peer-To-Peer Message Among Ignoramuses?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">7.- Dakota Tribal Wisdom and Organizations<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">8.- To Be Or Not To Be In Execution?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">9.- The Information Technology Revolution and the Absence of Cohesive and Sufficient Language<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">10.- Are You Fighting The Demon Of Decay?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">11.- Bonaparte’s Geological Prophecies on Hurricane Katrina’ and </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Gulf of Mexico</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">’s Since The Nineteenth Century<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">12.- Strategos Institute’s CEO and </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">London</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Business</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">’s Professor On The Future And The Derived Organizational Strategy Framework<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">13.- Introductory Quotations By Enlightened Minds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">14.- The Future And The Technological Singularity As Per Ray Kurzweil, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">15.- What is Happening Now? How Many “Nows” Are There?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 141.6pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -141.6pt;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">16.- Method First, Technology Second.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">17.- Body of the Present textbook.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">18.- Relevant Commentaries to Clarify Hideous Misunderstandings (Under Systematic Commission) by Magnificent People<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">19.- On Predictions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">20.- Wrapping Up (FUTURETRONIUM®)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">21.- Caveat<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">22.- The Hope<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">23.- Turning Hope into Actions<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">24.- How To Cope With Century Twentieth One!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">25.- What Are The Types Of Thinking That Jointly And Simultaneously Must Be Exercised To First Guess The Future? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">26.- Appendix, “Reflecting on the Education We Immediately Need”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">27.- Appendix of Definition of Applied Omniscience<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">28.- The Most Thoughtful Statement By Any American President To Date!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">29.- “The Singularity,” </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">NASA</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Lewis</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Research</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">Center</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">, The Ohio Aerospace Institute, The Vision-21 Symposium And </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">San Diego</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">State</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Professor Vernor Vinge! (March 1993)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">30.- “THE FUTURIST” Magazine's Top 10 Forecasts for 2010 and Beyond <br /><i>Plus more than 250 forecasts from Outlook, our annual special report.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">31.- Demystifying the “real deal” in profession, science, technology, leadership, management, strategy, and business, as well as offering the clearest blueprint! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">32.- QUESTION: What do Ralph Waldo Emerson, James D. Watson, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Arthur C. Clarke, Bernard D'espagnat, Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Malcolm S. Knowles, Bertrand Russell, Francis Bacon, Henry Kissinger, Otto Herman Khan, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, and the Panchatantra <<http: org="" wiki="" panchatantra="">> have in common? So they can offer us a positive and constructive reflection to navigate with an even-keeled vessel through uncharted waters in the third millennium? – A Critico-Creative Thinking Prescription To Illustrate Success In 16 Steps!<o:p></o:p></http:></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">33.- QUESTION: Are We Adrift In A </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sea</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Of </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Confusion</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">? Can The Undersigned Offer A Reasonable Pathway? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">34.- The Top Trends for 2010 by San Francisco Futurist Dr. James Canton, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">35.- The Message<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">36.- Answered Questions?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">37.- Glossary<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">38.- What I’ve Given You!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">39.- Annotated Bibliography<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">40.- Additional Bibliography for Suggested </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Reading</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">41.- About The Author.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">THE IMPERATIVE NOTA BENE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Through this work, terms widely used such as “knowledge,” “science,” and “learning” – among others directly or indirectly inferring and/or connoting knowledge acquisition – are solely considered only in regards to practical application and ample execution. Every reflecting or pondering, in my case, must be conducive to smarter actions. Smarter executions require much more wisdom. And wisdom is nothing else than organized knowledge. Ergo, lack of knowledge and ignorance will bring about the opposite to smart executions, but in fact emphasize disharmony, imprudence and peace disruption.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">OBJECTIVE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In this book I have tried to give you a very practical overview of massive change besieging our institutions, professions and civilizations globally, as well as our personas, and how it can be taken advantage of.<span style=""> </span>Regardless of how thorough I have been, this written work is never a substitute for your own personal and professional research, discernment, pondering and conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the process, and remembering that <i>“everything is related to everything else,”</i> the undersigned will address subject matters that seem in deep disconnect. There are jillion assumptions, notions and beliefs that are working extraordinarily in precluding a better understanding of the world we now live in.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I will focus on rigor with vigor since superficiality has been taken to unprecedented prominence for our collective disgrace. By means of an example, in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> people say: <i>“Don't look at the waves; just look at the currents underneath.”</i> I haven't found a more sensible wisdom to address the matters here under discussion. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In speaking of Chinese spiritual leaders in times of antiquity, a sage told his disciples, <i>“Attempt not to live in difficult times; those are the interesting ones indeed.”</i> Our generations, and that preceding ones to ours, have chosen to live in difficult times, Have they not? Either you face realities or find the “means” to avoid it and seize the good consequences.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In July 2010 a top corporate petroleum expert – speaking of imprudence as it is addressed here – said to news media that his chairman was not a <i>“perfect English-speaking person!”</i> What did he mean? Did he mean that </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">London</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> is not sufficiently related to the Globe Theater? Did he mean to say that his boss was not Shakespeare, Bacon or Milton? In fearing consummated liabilities are bared on one’s shoulders, Does one begin to arbitrarily tinker the sacrosanct science of semantics?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally, there are lots of lost talks, indoctrination, teaching so-called leadership by all of the wrong and right people making insidious mistakes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There is not a single robust teamwork if there isn’t plentiful of cohesive bonding<span style=""> </span>– regarding the sense of purpose and aiming highest to conquering goals, objectives and outcomes – if there is no optimum and executable states and flowing, yet integrated states of <i>esprit de corps.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Before teaming up into great alignment of purpose, spirit of unity and sense of urgency though, get an extraordinary yet actionable teaming arrangement getting every neuro-cell and every neuron and every synaptic connection to board the vessel impersonated by your own mind and as per your own brain. In other words, if you can’t get you mental act together, your execution act will be a mess and even mayhem.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Since I will be using metaphors, I wish to establish a clear definition of this lexicon. Metaphors are defined as: <i>“…A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison…” </i>I will use metaphors frequently in this textbook though, in the final analysis, the entirety of this material will be subjected to great rigor. Speaking of the immense variations of change requires addressing that subject through many angles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Recalling that this material is about the impact and the points of inflections fostered by many modes of change and to the utter end of spoken-of change, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid make the following claim: <i>“Technological and social systems shape each other … technologies <span style=""> </span>– such as gunpowder, the printing press, the railroad, the telegraph and the Internet <span style=""> </span>– can shape society in profound ways. But on the other hand, social systems <span style=""> </span>– in the form of governments, the courts and informal organizations, social movements, professional networks, local communities, market institutions and so forth <span style=""> </span>– shape, moderate and redirect the raw power of technologies.” </i>[56]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As your work through the following pages and if the reader is under a pervasive search of his and her<span style=""> </span>sovereign own (a miracle with its own merits and by itself), remember that you are on a journey that will take time, commitment, study, research, discipline and perennial self-reflection and self-pondering. Then you’ll need to execute smartly and in a sustaining smartness and cleverness through the most acid tests of times. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mind, Evolution and Universe?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Princeton</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> physicist Freeman Dyson put it: <i>“Mind, through the long course of biological evolution, has established itself a moving force in our little corner of the universe. Here on this small planet, mind has infiltrated matter and has taken control. It appears to me the tendency of mind to infiltrate and control matter is a law of nature.”</i><span style=""> </span>[86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Timely is, subsequently, to remember Einstein’s words, <i>“There is nothing more practical than theory.” </i>If it is going to take time and without desiring to discouraging you, I must unambiguously state that there is no room here, now, there or then for easy “magic solutions.” It is to large a task for me to encourage or discourage anyone. Nonetheless, getting to work through applied omniscience <<>><span style=""> </span>will render grounded hopes. The more the smart working, the more the grounded hopes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Which “magic solutions” are those indeed? People seeking immediate and easy solutions without (a) the depth of knowledge and (b) resources are set out to a major self-frustration and disappointment. And they will get these major self-frustrations and disappointments without a fail and in an ever-increasing rate of growth until they understand the following: <i>“You cannot get to a new place with an old map.” </i>To conceive a new map is no minutia effort. In fact, it’s an immense and immensely sustained effort.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Lacking to meet or factually meeting raw realities, as well as elucidating the findings, is a personal journey to the innermost core of each one. You can do something or you can do nothing. This is how democracy operates. Each one has its bearings. Take the pick.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To keep my conscientious awareness heightened and hygienic and to never raised the wrong expectation, my own Intellectual Manifesto is viewable at http://bit.ly/aBayq4<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Allow me now to add another interesting perspective as you will be finding habitually through this textbook. In his book “The New Ruthless Economy: World and Power in the Digital Age,” (publisher in March 2005), Simon Head (high-ranking member of the Rothermere American Institute of Oxford) indicates: <i>“Since 1995, the year in which the new economy based on information technology began to boom, the revenues have not been proportional to productivity and, during the last five years, the gap between income and productivity has been dramatic. Between 1995 and 2006 the productivity growth per employee superseded employees’ actual wages in 340%. Between 2001 and 2006, the first six years of George H. Bush’s presidency, this gap further deepened in an alarming 779%.” </i>[58]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Perpetual novelty – a function of dramatic changed change under a multitude of fluxes<span style=""> </span>–<span style=""> </span>appears entirely, increasingly unleashed from precedent when analyzed from the longest and amplest historic perspective (pursued by an exact-science practitioner), thus creatively disrupting (dragging the FUTURE into this as-of-now PRESENT) through a chain of past-time successions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The links, between historic successions and other preterit sequences, not only are “broken” and most lucid against fuzzy-logic discernment and counter-intuitiveness (that of my beloved, yet-in-its-infancy Quantum Mechanics), but also beginning to get unrelated to the essence, the substance, the depth and scope and <i>tempo</i>, as well as to the veritable and relevant facts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Fuzzy-logic discernment and counter-intuitiveness must take into consideration many pathways among many others, including those by Buddhism. For instance, Kalu Rinpoche establishes: <i>“We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When we understand this, we see that we are nothing. And being nothing, we are everything. That is all.”</i> [68] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">More Buddhist wisdom to gain some perspective about Fuzzy-logic discernment and counter-intuitiveness: “<i>If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Reality, Mind and Buddhism by a Westerner’s View!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Gary Hamel, PhD: <i>“Alan Kay tells a wonderful little story about how he came to recognize this deep truth: On the third day of a conference at a Buddhist center, I asked people why they put their palms together several times a day. The Buddhists believe that the world is an illusion, but we have to go along with the illusion for efficiency reasons. When they put their hands together it is a semicolon, an acknowledgment that whatever they may think is going on right now is largely a fabrication of their own mind.” </i>[88]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">World and vision?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision That which doesn’t exist doesn’t exist in relation to that which exists. This is true vision. By means of such vision nothing is seen and nothing is not seen …. The mind and the world are opposites, and vision arises when they meet. When your mind doesn’t stir inside, the world doesn’t arise outside. When the world and mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> By Bodhidharma, Indian Zen Buddhist monk who brought Zen from </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> to </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> (circa 520 A.D.)<i> </i>[89]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Courage and success by the prominent British premier.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Winston Churchill: <i>“Courage is the capacity to go from failure to failure with increased enthusiasm!” </i>We’re going to need the personal cosmological trait lavishly I am not afraid to assert.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Succeeding in reversal?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Piet Hein: <i>“The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain and simple to express. Err and err and err again but less and less and less.” </i>[89]<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A distant past and also a distant future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edward Fredkin (born 1934): <i>“A third implication of the concept is that because the vast preponderance of the lifetime of the universe lies in the distant future rather than in the past, the historical achievements of life and mind are meager foreshadowings of the starring role that intelligent life is likely to play in shaping the future of the cosmos. Indeed, this new way of looking at the intimate linkage of life, mind, and the cosmos suggests a novel way of thinking about the ultimate destiny of our destiny of our universe.” </i>[86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">DNA, Complexity and digital information system?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edward <em><span style="font-style: normal;">Fredkin (bio at http://bit.ly/bMVDlb) described his theory in an interview with science writer Robert Wright: </span>“What I’m saying is that at the most basic level of complexity an information process runs what we think of as physics. At the much higher level of complexity life, DNA – you know, the biochemical functions – are controlled by a digital information system. Then, at another level, our thought processes are basically information processing.”</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></em>[86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Universe with a purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">Robert Wright (bio at http://bit.ly/azFvZG), in response to Fredkin, puts it: </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Fredkin believes that the universe is very literally a computer and that it is being used by someone, or something, to solve a problem.<span style=""> </span>It sounds like a good news/bad joke: the good news is that our lives have purpose; the bad news is that their purpose is to help some remote hacker pi to nine jillion decimal places.”</span></em><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [86]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Artificial Man?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">The philosopher Thomas Hobbes (bio at http://bit.ly/5vaI4) offered an uncanny preview of the science of artificial intelligence in his masterpiece Leviathan [description viewable at http://bit.ly/16Qymw] published in 1651: </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in the principal part within; why we not say that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?”</span></em><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [86] Brackets are mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Space, Evolution and Universe?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">Cosmology Frank Tipler (bio at http://bit.ly/cmsdLs) has bluntly stated: </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Almost all of space and time lies in the future. By focusing attention only on the past and present, science has ignored almost all of reality, it is about time science decided to study the future evolution of the universe.”</span></em><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">History and approaching a singularity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">Information theorist John von Nuemann (bio at http://bit.ly/2zfuto) in the 1950s: </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The ever accelerating progress of technology … gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we known them, could not continue.”</span></em><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The geometrically non-linear human progress!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;" lang="EN-US">Ray Kurzweil (bio at http://bit.ly/MIMkN), in understanding the future of evolution, indicates: </span><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Von Neumann makes two important observations here: acceleration and singularity. The first idea is that human progress is exponential … rather than linear …. The second is that exponential growth is seductive, starting out slowly and virtually unnoticeably, but beyond the knee of the curve it turns explosive and profoundly transformative. The intelligence that will emerge [post-Singularity] will continue to represent the human civilization. In other words, future machines will be human, even if they are not biological. This will be the next step in evolution, the next high-level paradigm shift …. Most of the intelligence of our civilization will ultimately be nonbiological. By the end of this century, it will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than [un-enhanced] human intelligence.” </span></em><span style="" lang="EN-US">[86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Cambrian Explosion and the Future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">James N. Gardner: <i>“It should never be clear that the future will differ radically from the past; it will be at least different as the radically new world of biological complexity and diversity ushered in the Cambrian Explosion was from the preceding era …. The central point is that collateral advances in sciences seemingly far removed from cosmology can help dissipate the intellectual limitations imposed by common sense and naive human intuition. And, in an uncanny reprise of the Lyell/Darwin intellectual synergy, it is a realization of the vastness of time and history that gives rise to the crucial insight. Only in this instance, the vastness of which I speak is the vastness of future time and future history.” </i>[86] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Past, Future and Baby Universes?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Chicago</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> cosmologist Sean Carroll: <i>“The [observed] arrow of time in our universe is puzzling because the fundamental laws of physics themselves are symmetric and don’t seem to discriminate between the past and future …. In our patch of the cosmos, time just so happens to be moving forward because of its initial low entropy, but there are others where this is not the case. The far past and the far future are filled with these other baby universes, and they would each think that the other had its arrow of time backwards. Time’s arrow isn’t a basic aspect of the universe as a whole, just a hallmark of the little bit we see.” </i>[86]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Largest Book!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Galileo: <i>“Philosophy is written in this grand book – I mean the Universe – which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the characters in which it is written.”</i> [86]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Counter-intuitiveness at its best!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: <i>“The opposite of a false statement is a correct statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”<b> </b></i>[89]<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Counter-seeing to discover?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Andre Gide (1869 - 1951): <i>“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The influence to bias understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Upton Sinclair: <i>“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Who is your teacher that is not outside yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Brian Tracy: <i>“No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Relatives and absolutes?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sir Winston Churchill: <i>“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Improbabilities working on behalf of the learned?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Louis Pasteur: <i>“Chance favors the prepared mind.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Science and spirituality?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein: <i>“I hold that the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest motive in fostering scientific research.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">You’re your own leader?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mother Teresa: <i>“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From happiness to useful service?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Henry Ford (1863 - 1947): <i>“Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dimensional minds?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Oliver Wendell Holmes: <i>“A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Credit and predictions?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Louis V Gerstner, Jr., Former CEO, IBM:<i> “No credit can be given for predicting rain ― only for building arks.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Knowing Not Knowing?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Donald Rumsfeld: <i>“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Building a bridge?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Author Unknown: <i>“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door [you create pre-conditions by you].”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Upping the mind?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein: <i>“The significant challenges we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” </i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How do you distribute modernity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">William Gibson: <i>“The FUTURE is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Orders misunderstood?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Henry Miller: <i>“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Progress and Crime?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein: <i>“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What stays in place?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Christian Bovee: <i>“When all else is lost, the future still remains.” </i>[71] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Faith place in what time frame?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ruth Benedict: <i>“Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.” </i>[71] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Fearing what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thomas Fuller: <i>“He that fears the future may enjoy the present.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Calling the Future what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:state><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tennessee</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Williams: <i>“The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Having or not having?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">James Petersen: <i>“If you afraid for your future, you don’t have a present.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Which evil is the least worst?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Francesco Guicciardini: <i>“To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise … from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Handy futures?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thomas E. Dewey: <i>“We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our hands.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Fearing change?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">E. H. Harriman: <i>“It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anxious and miserable?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Marcus Annaes Seneca: <i>“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A heart and a fear?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Henry </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Wadsworth</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Longfellow: <i>“Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Is the mind wrongly operated?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">John Locke: <i>“Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of a future evil likely to befall us.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Uncertainties over certainty?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">William Sloane Coffin: <i>“I’m deglitched that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The future is meant to be bold?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alfred North Whitehead: <i>“It is the business of the future to be dangerous.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What purpose to set out for?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Robert M. Pirsig: <i>“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The advantageous mind?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Samuel Johnson: <i>“Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The mind-hand connection?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">B. C. Forbes: <i>“Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Who determines what? Is it the ignoramus?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Gerald Jampolsky: <i>“No way exists in the present to accurately determine the future effect of the least of our actions.” </i>[71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Are you recalling the future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Corrie ten Boom: <i>“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Aching lessons to learn?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Hugh White: <i>“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”</i> [71]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Imaginary Present and Fabricated Future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy …. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one – the knowledge and the dream.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [72] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A fightable time?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">William E. Gladstone (1809 – 1898): <i>“You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.”</i> [72]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What are you inventing?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alan Kay (1940 - ): <i>“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”</i> [72]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Change to change what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Milan Kundera (1929 -<span style=""> </span>): <i>“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.” </i>[72]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dreaming progress and modernity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Eleanor Roosevelt: <i>“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” </i>[73]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">De-learning for Life?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alvin Toffler: <i>“In the world of the future, the new illiterate will be the person who has not learned to learn.” </i>[73]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Guiding to which place?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein<i>: “Teachers are messengers from the past and an escort to the future.”</i> [73]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Geography allocated by times?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alison Lurie (1926 -<span style=""> </span>): <i>“As one went to </i></span><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Europe</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> to see the living past, so one must visit </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Southern California</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> to see the future.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [74]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">History and the train?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969): <i>“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”</i> [75]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Imprudence?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tacitus: <i>“Light-minded men are improvident of the future.”</i> [76]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Youth and Future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Franklyn </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Delano</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Roosevelt</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">: <i>“We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”</i> [77]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Forgiveness and Future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Paul Boese: <i>“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.”</i> [77]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Pencil your map?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Jon Bon Jovi: <i>“Map out your future, but do it in pencil.”</i> [77]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Future and responsibility?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">George Bernard Shaw: <i>“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”</i> [77]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Time and definitions?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Chales Caleb Colton: <i>“Time is the most indefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not to come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires.” </i>[77] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">CITIZENS MUST COME TOGETHER ON THIS CAUSE UNEQUIVOCALLY AND WITH THE GREATEST SENSE OF URGENCY, DILIGENT URGENCY OF SACRED-SCRIPTURES PROPORTIONS.</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Must become mind-prepared and ever-ready as per my firmest conviction in case they agree upon countering some downside consequences from massive change and upping further some upside facets of said massive change. Can an entire civilization possess “free will in group”? Really? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">One of the most important French-Canadian premier, to this end, makes an awesome quotation. Pierre Trudeau (1919 – 2000): <i>“The twentieth century really belongs to those who will build it. The future can be promised to no one.” </i>[70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE REAL DEAL. It’s time (as it seems to me after deeply researching the subject for almost 30 years), through <i>sprits de corps</i>-based talented teams of “rivals,” to institute the systemic, systematic, holistic stewardship of UPSIDE AND DOWNSIDE RISKS via epidemiological thinking <i>à la </i>Gestalt with the omniscience vista <<>>. Albert Einstein hence indicates: <i>“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”<span style=""> </span></i>[61]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="" lang="EN-US">THE MORE THE SO-CALLED CRISES HAPPEN, THE MORE THE EMPIRICAL-AND-OTHERWISE PROGRESSIONS OF APPLIED “STATES OF THE ART” WILL REGISTER WITHOUT A FAIL, BOTH IN THE FOREGROUND AND BACKGROUND, AS WELL AS UBIQUITOUSLY. “UBIQUITOUSLY” NOW EQUATES TO THE ENTIRETY OF THE UNIVERSE, LITERALLY.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What might the human race get in exchange while implementing all-encompassing MANAGEMENT (all chapters thoroughly) via a compound, all-solutions toolkit, routed with the envisioning and instituting of the optimal totality-of-knowledge? How? By operating the mind and the brains-driven business “battlefield” (just a <i>stratum</i> among zillion <i>strata</i>) with THE COMBINED, INDUSTRIOUS ASSISTANCE OF OMNISCIENCE, PANSOPHY, POLYMATH, ALL-KNOWINGNESS. To access to more insight on the terminology used in this paragraph, go to the Omniscience section for a thorough description. Omniscience at <<>>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We can still exercise many civil rights before some transbiologicals and robots take over as long as the “caveat” here described does not take precedence in the first place. Will you stay as an innocent and naive “by stander” for how long in order to further empowering the own state of increasing powerless quality and condition (that of you)?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What is the good news, if attention is indeed paid to world-class, “cross-pollinated and cross-referenced research” literature driven by scientific inquiry, research, and invention? The current civilization can increase UPSIDE RISKS (benefits) and simultaneously mitigate and terminate and modulate DOWNSIDE RISKS (disruptions), some existential and others not. Incidentally, one situation that does compound heavily (into <i>terra incognita</i>) is that of risks. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">CLEARLY, EVERYONE ON EARTH MUST WORK UNDER THE ROGUE RULING OF THE ULTIMATE. Upside and downside risks are promoted by deeds of humans and acts of Nature. Many times the human lack of countering the risks by the acts of Nature becomes even more critical. Risks – upside and downside ones – are the result of a continuum by “changed changes” points of inflection marshaled through a multitude of fluxes and flows. By the way, there is a plethora of Risk Management’s “countermeasures” with an ugly existential problem. Those “countermeasures” are designed through linear minds in a world plagued of hyper-exponential geometrical discontinuities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Diversity, by the way, when properly integrated and aligned (alignment of human and materiel resources), begets breakthrough innovation. QUESTION: WHICH PATH / ROUTE WILL THE PROFESSIONAL / BY-OWN-DESIRE IGNORANT, LAZY, MISTAKEN, IGNOMINIOUS, INDOLENT, CORRUPT ONES TAKE? REMEMBER, <i>“ONE CANNOT GET TO A NEW PLACE WITH AN OLD MAP.”</i> Just might need a GPS and SAT-phone with an Internet hot-swappable connector. The supine ignoramuses are savants in picking to avoid and downplay every form of reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">They will be calling names the “reality facer.” The finest disqualification would be the calling him and her negativists and pessimistics. The finest disqualification would be the calling him and her negativists and pessimistic. I saw an interview by a survivor of the Holocaust. She clearly stated that being immensely pessimistic saved the lives of those sentenced to death while the optimistic ones were burned in man-made Hell without a fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In speaking of your personal capital, I am exactly referring to the one held and treasured in your brain while the entirety of other magnificent sub-systems (such as heart, lungs, kidneys, liver) operate exactly as the life-supportive apparatuses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anyway, <i>“THE EMPIRES OF THE FUTURE ARE THE EMPIRES OR «MONARCHICAL STRATA» OF THE MIND”</i> (Churchill). HOW HAVE THE READER EXERCISED RADIANT AND PERVASIVE MIND EXPANSION LATELY, LATELY TOWARDS FOREVER AND EVER? The Human Race has always longed for progress, ultimately upping its living standards for centuries, while ignoring the concomitant daring sequels, responsibilities and liabilities. You engage in mind expansion seriously and sustainably to extend and expand your wise and clever executions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally, this is not the taken-for-granted “Society Of Knowledge” for free (that is exactly to say that it is not gratuitous at all). It is very expensive, since one must mortgage their intellectual capital endlessly and to the utmost and for good, every second and for Life. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I did not give birth to hominids very much to my fortune and relief, nor consider myself the supreme intelligence in the universe (let’s just abide by facts and figures and preter-naturalist thinking, as an amicable unasked suggestion); Primates (including pre-humans and current humans) were occupying the land and wandering around, intrigue buy copious wonders. A mind plus A body plus An oppositional finger (thumb) plus a rock can equate to a great deal of fine and terrible weaponized artifacts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In beyond stupidity and after over four billion of evolution, we humans cannot live without exercising our mind in the appalling linear world as we face a world of maximum non-linearity and multi-bumping by a multitude of discontinuous forces, forces that ever and ever grow more addicted to discontinuity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Those, today, gain critical mass easily when the 7-billion souls wish to breathe and make a living and enjoy some world-class life standards, literally <i>“de luxe.”</i> The adage, “one thing at the time” will NOW be replaced by “A PLENTIFUL, FOREVER ONGOING CLUSTER / BUNCH OF DRAMATIC THINGS IN REAL TIME AND ALL OF THE REAL-TIME TIME.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We have been called to revolt and act upon many integrated techniques and methods and practices compatible with a technocratic revolution by the humane that cannot rid his / her indispensable mind preparedness. But to get the maximum output, the musical must be choreographed and, above all, acted based on <i>sprits de corps</i> unanimity. In the mean time we are having tons of fun by showing off our collective un-preparedness until an “ex-solar typhoon,” sort of speak, hits next onto an ensuing point of inflection in cosmos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Only you make your own: conclusions, ideas, plans, findings, professional/organizational ethos and points of view. If your ethos, zeitgeist and weltanschauungs need or not radical upgrading, these will only be solved or not by you, as well as by the accompanying circumstances (pre-conditions and conditions) that knowingly or unknowingly you bestow upon yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The ultimate objective is for the reader (if he / she is by his / her own will in fact reading) to access insights to ask and work (for and by himself and herself) through each one’s own conclusions, thus coping better with the challenges of the Third Millennium. Trust no one, though you just might attempt to trust you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Is the future a function of the present or is the present a function of the future? What do present and future mean in practicality regarding business, profession, education, politics (including most universal <i>realpolitik</i> geopolitics), society (understanding the granularity of details ingrained in matter-of-fact demographics), industry, markets, as well as in regards to emerging science and technology? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In this sense, George Orwell (1903 -1950) indicated: <i>“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”</i> [69] And likewise David Hume (1711 – 1776) stated: <i>“The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.”</i> [69] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">When we speak about time compartmentalization (such as Future, Present and Past) are we honoring the instituted approach by Dr. Albert Einstein? Since time is never dislocated from “mass” and “energy,” Are we, in pronouncing these profound dynamic concepts, allocating correlative “volumes” of a) Mass and b) Energy for the times compartmentalized and termed: Future, Present and Past? We aren’t, Are we? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why are we “frustrated” when we get strategically surprised beyond devastation and mayhem by crystallized “disruption potentials” turned into palpable nightmares if we are failing to do our solely own homework we dislike but we need to survive so dearly? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Living and having lots of fun by superfluous modus vivendi will secure the modus operandi through Apocalypses. We always have the chance to counter several hazards but we must come together as a global society. Don't worry about the Universe; it'll go in its business-as-usual mode untouchably and invariably.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alvin Toffler offers some insight: <i>“The FUTURE always comes too fast and in the wrong order [expected by the great majority of mindful or absent/minded ‘incumbents’].” </i>Brackets are mine. [17] The problem is that many incumbents feel so un-incumbent though at a later onerous price.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In a continuous dialogue about massive change, Toffler adds:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alvin Toffler (1928 - ): <i>“…’Future Shock’ … the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time … The dizzying disorientation brought on by premature arrival of the future….”</i> [17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why is this FUTURE different to others? Why is change so pervasive, massive, ubiquitous and frenzy? Why is this ever-changing rate of change entailing difference and newness and what are the respective consequences and sequels unavoidably affecting our lives? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What are the imperatives we must superlative micro- and macro-manage to cope to sustainably and sufficiently prevail as a HUMAN RACE? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How can we gain a vantage position and benefit from such futures and changes? How can we “upside” strategic perils along the times to come while simultaneously “downside” eventual opportunities, thus combining both “outputted” advents into a maximum optimum adaptation?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why will this FUTURE unveil the ill and flawed considerations in greatly hidden, misunderstood and largely “socially engineered” fallacies, assumptions, conventions and beliefs? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">All of this <span style=""> </span>actually going at a rate of staggering universal velocity to the least extent (both geographically and demographically), while DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology<span style=""> </span>for use by the military) greatly to my innermost gusto and own entertainment <span style=""> </span>is stubbornly driven to “loving” defying (defiance) and disrupting (disruption) in “empirical,” yet “rampant” labs to “counter” and prove “wrong” so-called “immutable” classic laws of physics every day, literally. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">DARPA, the entity that spinned off an agency termed “NASA” and created magnificent Internet, exhibits a most lucid maxim: <i>“If you’re not failing frequently, you are not succeeding enough.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">If thirty years ago DARPA, Los Alamos National Laboratories, NASA, National Foundation of Science <i>et al.</i> had been commissioned with the invention of massive and abundant “green energy,” we could all now protect much better our environment (and possibly had reduced the formation of the climate global crisis), as well as enjoying plentiful sources of reliable energy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How could this have been achieved then? By appointing an initiative within the tradition of the Manhattan Project, the Apollo Program and the Genome project. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As civilizations we have the right to make extreme blunders as well as to be held liable (knowingly or not) for the inherent consequences and sequels. Isn’t there the national security of every country threatened now?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Can we seriously and professionally (that is, without deceiving) speak of “success appropriating” WITHOUT STRONGLY REVIEWING FAILURES AND, ABOVE ALL, ADDRESSING THE NANO-GRANULARITY OF YOUR RIVALS COMPREHENSIVELY AND IN ADVANCE? Indeed? Why don’t we learn lessons of wisdom by third parties? Is it because we are too busy in trying to figure out self-esteems “issues” very efficacious in clouding our minds?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What are the new high-tech deities in the “warped passages” block? Is this the FUTURE we have chosen not to start creatively imagining to the fullest in the PRESENT early on? The FUTURE is that unimpeachable real thing, Isn't it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Many people have huge difficulty understanding time progression and the strategic surprises that said progression fosters sometimes beyond creative imagination. Human rights, as well, might easily undergo retrogression with the incessant progression of time anyway, believe it or not!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It is attributed to Jeff Immelt, GE’s current CEO, the following: <i>“…post 9/11 is a different world…” </i>[42] This tragic milestone alone will play through times in forceful manners up to actual time horizons. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Reversing or smartly modulating the consequences will take a gargantuan effort by every constituent in Earth’s civilization, whether hungry or fulfilled, whether thirsty or satisfied, whether sophisticated, educated or illiterate, whether old or young.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I really hope that those not believing such a claim to make a thorough understanding quickly. This material is bound to helping in that direction and thereby offering unique and unprecedented insights. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Subsequently, in today’s world, timidity and fear are serious competitive liabilities. Coming times, upcoming times, forthcoming times, future times will prove themselves ruthless in the continuum known as PRESENT without a fail. What are we competing for? We are competing for the prevailing of our lives with dignity, Aren’t we?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In illustrating the PRESENT and the FUTURE (and the fluid interrelationship between the two), What rolls are they respectively impersonating to gain us further insight? This is a strong-sense and critico-creative discernment to understanding the ever-challenging nature and anatomy of change in every facet of Human Life!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In order to appreciate time progression and its beyond geometrical non-linear quality, Can we establish accurate parallelisms with metaphoric and not so metaphoric (yet most accurate) terms to better enlighten our minds with lacking optimum rigor? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why do we humans, marshaling through such a massive technological progression, readily wish to subject our existence to retrogression by choosing not to recognize grave and yet subtle forces that redefine it all?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the fainthearted. Stated simply, be it known that the scale, scope and magnitude of the FUTURES are impossible to overstate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is so playful and naive just gaming in arenas whose sole proprietor is the omni-mode ruling monarchical FUTURE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As the PRESENT carries on just acting serially (not coping with all simultaneously but just gradually and in immersed ill randomness), the FUTURE ascertains every impending deed simultaneously.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In instituting best analyzes and countering the DOWNSIDES and leveraging the UPSIDES, the optimum analyzes are those industriously pondered by: 1) <i>pre facto</i> (before the facts), 2) <i>a priori</i> (a form of before the facts), 3) <i>pre-mortem</i> (much before <i>mortem</i> or before <i>post-mortem</i>), and 4) <i>a posteriori.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Back in 1985, as I was starting to manage large operational petroleum risks <span style=""> </span>– along with the risks embodied by some forty thousand employees with one hundred six thousand direct “eligible dependents” <span style=""> </span>– (refinery, installations, wells, maritime fleets) <span style=""> </span>– including the immense risks of oil refinery number one and oil refinery number three as per worldwide standards, I started asking myself how I could foresee some of that potential disruption (clearly, early on and for future cases) to avoid it or mitigate it somewhat. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">At that moment, and for some strange reason, someone started speaking to me about Alvin Toffler’s and his game-changing book “Future Shock,” first published in the 1970s. [25] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From there on – having read the book carefully, I became engaged about the rate of change, seeing change engendering opportunities and chaos at the same time and forever.<span style=""> </span>I then realized that the timing, tempo and rhythm of the progression of the rate of change were always operating against humans’ intuitiveness and insight.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The driving force was the understanding of how small and complex things in life can be so profoundly modified by just instituting “out-of-this-world” common sense (not defunct “Thomas Paine” common sense any more). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Some forms of change are amazing and must be understood at any rate as per my view. For instance, when things feel less chaotic, it doesn’t mean that there is less chaos. It does mean that there is more chaos and order in fluid stasis. Clearly, organizations, firms, business, products, services, processes and markets have “life cycle.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Yes, there are furthermore cyclical and seasonal changes. But there are also changes that are counter-cyclical and counter-seasonal amidst many other more fundamental forms of change.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What it means is that many forms of chaos are greatly intertwined and, thus, generating a) mutually-reinforcing energies (productively and disruptively), b) function and purpose, and c) and self-preservation for said chaotic yet ordered system, as their collective selective pressures get aligned by their own combined valuable orders (usually multiplied by many orders of magnitude).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">When my father gave me his private library, I found a book that he never mentioned to me and which he read in 1957, way before my coming into existence, titled <i>“El Desenlace Del Drama Mundial” </i>(in Spanish, <i>“The Final Outcome of World’s Drama”)</i> published by Publicaciones Interamericanas and Pacific Press Press Publishing Association, and authored by Argentinean Dr. Fernando Chaij in 1956. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It is a textbook with the rigor and strategic end and theme of a book in the tradition of George Orwell, though it was not in any way speculative but rigorously based only on fact, statistics, reflection, concern and a rectification calling, never driven by the science-fiction genre. In fact, it is documented and supported with robust facts and statistics.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">So many years later I came to a great understanding (since I believe in the forces of genotype and phenotype, as well as in the perpetually fluid interaction between both). My maternal grandmother was really a busy lady, not only in making her home and being entrepreneurial, but my mother – not fully aware of the subtle scope of my profession – one day told me, <i>“Your grandmother was a futurologist. She worked on understanding how and when things were supposed to unfold.”</i> She was studying several languages on her own and reading international newspapers with great discipline. By professional futurology is here meant to capture prospective images of eventual futures by exercising the scenario method via the scientific approach through applied omniscience and systems methodology. When I operate my scenario method process, I don’t limit said process to only three scenarios, but to a nearly infinite number.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And my father would constantly tell me, besides amplifying my brain through education and mind shaping my personalities, <i>“try to foresee every problem so that you can fix each one in advance.”</i> Exactly as Dr. Aubrey de Grey PhD, a leading-edge scientist at the </span><st1:place><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US"> of </span><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Cambridge</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">, states it, <i>“We'll be solving problems before they arrive.” </i>[59] Quite a future-ready declaration, Is it not?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Prof. Hamel, along those lines by de Grey, states: <i>“From Nostradamus to Alvin Toffler, individuals and organizations have long been obsessed with trying to see the future. The goal is to somehow get advanced warning of ‘what will be’…”</i> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Furthering the motions by Hamel, de Grey, my loved father and my own self, Dr. Hauerwas has some invaluable words of wisdom about “Universal Knowledges.” Ensuing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Stanley Hauerwas, B.D., M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D.:<span style=""> </span><i>“…in support of the liberal notion that the knowledges that constitute the university have no ‘use’ fail to ask what [John Henry] Newman mean by ‘universal knowledge.’ By ‘universal’ Newman did not mean that the knowledges that constitute liberal learning cannot be justified by their utility, but rather that all knowledge was interconnected because the ‘universe in its length and breadth is so intimately knit together.’ To be educated is not to be well read or to know a great deal about this or that subject. Rather, it is the only true enlargement of mind which is the power of viewing many things at once as one whole, of referring them severally to their true place in the universal system, or understanding their respective values, and determining their mutual dependence. Thus is that form of Universal Knowledge set up in the individual intellect, and constitutes its perfection. Possessed of this real illumination, the mind never views any part of the extended subject-matter of Knowledge without recollecting that it is but a part, or without the associations which spring from this recollection. It makes every thing in some sort lead to every thing else; it would communicate the image of the whole to every separate portion, till that whole becomes in imagination like a spirit, everywhere pervading and penetrating its component parts, and giving them one definite meaning …. Philosophy, not theology, Newman believes to be the discipline that is distinct from all the sciences, that is, ‘in some sense’ philosophy is ‘a science of sciences.’ …”</i> [95] Brackets are mine. I must communicate that this wisdom is “hyperbolically” optimum. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Notwithstanding, said “Universal Knowledges,” an indeed appreciated and practicable notion is a sub-system (or only as a function of) what I have here defined as “applied omniscience.” There is no incongruence but an absolute synergistic supplementary. My <i>applied omniscience</i> definition at « http://bit.ly/c8zAeb » I strongly believe in one KNOWLEDGE stemming from applied omniscience.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I was raised in a home in which it was much more important to solve problems – through fundamental and permanent approaches – before their crystallizing. Before these findings, I wanted to know why and how each toy and even 383-inch (eight-cylinder) Chrysler Fury engine operate, as well as investigating the possibility of making those artifact “perform” better. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Fortunately, I am not a prognosticator but I am steadily practicing zillion “FUTURES” in advance effortlessly. For over some fifteen years these workings by my mind stop being “second nature” and became first nature indeed. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">For a client or for a serious subject matter of mine, I will be eliciting the driving forces that will impact positively and negatively, as well as the action plans to exploit every UPSIDE out of every DOWNSIDE. In the mean time, there is an Arab adage to share with you: <i>“That who foretells the truth lies even if he is telling the truth.”</i> <span style=""> </span>Further insight along these lines:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="addmd"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By Gary Hamel, PhD: <i>“The future belongs not to those who possess a crystal ball, but those willing to challenge the biases and prejudices of the ‘establishment.’ The future belongs more to the unorthodox than it does to the prognosticators, more to the movement than to the starry-eyed.”</i></span></span><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [87]<span class="addmd"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By extreme systematic and systemic cognition, I see trends, their intertwining, their superposing, their interrelationship, their dynamics, and their possibilities. I also see advantages and disadvantages and the fruitfulness of tackling them when it is called for. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Even more than I’d like it to be that way, I must admit I am a pervasive “patternist,” patternist (<i>paterfamilias’</i> patternists among other patternists) from patterns that become patterns identified, acknowledged, analyzed and understood early on, that is: before their underneath currents (driving forces) make it evident to the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As I apply, patternists emphasize the deepest understanding of patterns – as they are embedded and entrenched in driving forces – over the long-term times, without excluding short-term ranges.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the process I might regard myself a rigorist. I need to have an in-depth understanding of the driving forces to institute truly robust Risk Management (as I understand this grave, complex and indispensable discipline).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">These extreme systematically and systemically cognitions, as expressly exercising both hemispheres of your brain, might land me or you to pre-cog capabilities if you’re willing – that is – to deploy own efforts in sustained ways. In my case and that of my maternal grandmother, it has noting to do with clairvoyance. It has only and fully to do with the application of the scientific method and working out the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The scientific and technological progression, driven by the convergence of many visionary industries and the marketability of the stemming technologies globally, has brought an unprecedented level of scientific knowledge at a growing rate beyond geometrically exponential progression. In the mean time, and not so paradoxically, too many valuable minds are engaged in rogue retrogression (that is, progression’s antipodes) as well. Are minds in retrogression desperately seeking self devastation? Progression and retrogression impact and inflict changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From the <i>Institute for the Future</i>, Paul Saffo and Roy Amara make a point regarding change: <i>“I think about it as ‘orders of impact.’ First order, second order, etc. When an earthquake happens you have a whole series of waves that follow. The first order of the auto was the horseless carriage. The second order was the traffic jam. The third-order impact was the move toward the suburbs. This led in turn to the creation of huge metropolitan areas.”</i> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Medical advancements and breakthroughs not only hold the promise of prolonging life while holding it with great health and stamina, but it is entertaining the idea of human lives prevailing for up to one thousand years while some, like Dr. Ray Kurzweil Ph.D. and Dr. Terry Grossman M.D. [26], [27], speak habitually of conquering immortality. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Many serious researchers (including </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Cambridge</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">'s Dr. Aubrey de Grey, PhD) speak about as living as you pay and use the one-thousand year milestone not to make people afraid about immortality becoming a major reality in the near future. The aim is immortality <i>per se</i> and not the thousand years in actuality. In the final decision, anyone will make its “freewill” choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Addressing Kurzweil, Grossman and de Grey, a clever and prominent physician makes his point. Dr. Joseph Knoll, M.D., who effected an extraordinary reflection: <i>“We shall never forget that humans obviously cannot change natural laws, but by discovering their mechanisms of action they learn to make use of this knowledge. By conquering gravitation man stepped across his naturally given limit and ultimately landed on the moon.”</i> [59]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Someone in a History Channel program hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku indicated, along these lines in speaking of nanotechnology and biotechnology and life extension, <i>“…that illnesses and defects won’t be a part of the human life…”<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There is a valuable thought about the future and its arrival, attributed to Gary Hamel, <i>“The problem with the future is that is different [since is profound, its scientific properties are being dramatically changed in real time and all of the time]. If you are unable to think differently, the Future will always arrive as a surprise.”</i> Brackets are mine. [28]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In addition and as it is believed to be proclaimed by Samuel Goldwyn, <i>“Only a fool would make predictions, especially about the future.” </i>[64] If we are serious about change and all of its derivations and sequels, we must talk <i>future studies</i> copiously.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To optimize predictability and accuracy or even under the mildest scenario and sternest and clever effort to amplify and diversify scenarios envisioned to get an early preparation (in advance) about the dynamics of processes, challenges, opportunities, risks, and deviations. We must walk this intricated talk the soonest.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Before solving any complex problems, one must comprehend the most of them. A cross-functional, multidimensional, pluri-contextual scrutinizing and multi-strata of its ever-fluid and applicable womb-to-tomb, epidemiological vista will be beyond vital. In the execution, one must operate through many contexts and brainy filters and aided by a cohesive compilation of a great diversity of perspectives “funneled” into a monolithic unison. This “monolithic unison” is set under increasing dynamics. If you observed it fix, it’s because it’s moving faster that your senses can register.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Speaking of novel and comprehensive foresight and far-sight and the modes to raise the ante in that science, art, practice, and above all self-discipline. I will include a remarkable quotation by Strategos Institute Chairman and London Business School Professor.<span style=""> </span>Prof. Gary Hamel, PhD:<span style=""> </span><i>“Each revolution in art was based on a re-conception of reality. It wasn’t the canvas, the pigments, or the brushes that changed, but how the artist perceived the world. In the same sense, it’s not the tools that distinguish industry revolutionaries from humdrum incumbents – not the information technology they harness, not the process they use, not their facilities. Instead, is their ability to escape the stranglehold of the familiar.”</i> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As I paraphrase Dr. Stephen Hawking and to pursue the former, my express perpetual bottom-line (that of the undersigned) for Life is the ensuing: <i>“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the Universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”</i> In my case, my interest is not just intellectual but fully concrete and practical. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This work is not meant as an intellectual text so much as pragmatic and practical management look at change, with a very strong emphasis on execution. It’s not about a pure intellectual understanding, or just an <i>ivory tower</i> understanding, but, rather, the focus is on smart execution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">I strongly support JFK’s ensuing take as well.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">President John F. Kennedy’s speech on </span><st1:date year="1962" day="12" month="9"><span style="" lang="EN-US">September 12, 1962</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US"> at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Race</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">: <span style=""> </span><i>“If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space …. Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.” </i>[80]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In aligning the idea of understanding the nature of change and the impacts stemming from said change, former GE’s CEO Jack Welch indicated: <i>“Seeing the world the way it is, not the way we hope it will be or wish it to be.” </i>Then, Jeff Immelt succeeded Jack Welch and became new GE’s CEO in </span><st1:date year="2010" day="7" month="9"><span style="" lang="EN-US">September 07, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US">. [42]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To further enlighten the present material, Tichy stated: <i>“Jeff Immelt realizes that the world changes every day and that his job is to keep GE competitive in that changing world. But his ability to take the company where it needs to go is greatly facilitated by the fact that he has a clear understanding of where he is starting.” </i>[42]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Agreeing greatly with Dr. Hawkins’s, Welch also mentioned, <i>“To get to the guts of why things happen.” </i>[42] Welch indeed believes in exercising pattern analyzes (as patternist), Does he not?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There is a mandate in the PRESENT over the FUTURE by the forces of the FORTHCOMING TIMES. The solid idea about it requires crafting a new vision, with its appended (loose/tight and amorphous but abstract yet concrete) strategy, and aligning people to it. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Transformation involves not just tearing away from the PAST, but immediately moving into a new better future besieged by great perils that must be transformed or not into lucrative yet sustainable UPSIDES.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In speaking to your intellect, as your intellect and mine dialogue fluently this via, I will appeal to very legitimate narrative resources to offer you an accurate insight and perspective of how the scientific properties of change are changing and how changed changes are beginning to change it all beyond the wildest dreams and nightmares. I will use metaphors and other analogies with rigor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In due time, you will realize that this is a well-meant and responsible calling in which vigorous rigor is <i>sine qua non</i> to the undersigned. I immensely enjoy advanced democracy, rule of law (<i>rigor juris</i>), true justice, peace and harmony. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Nonetheless, to “milk” hope out of daring situations, I must face raw realities to start de-risking some really unnecessary disruption potentials. My most unambiguous end is to seek peace through harmonic means only. Believe me, I am not naive just become hopeful when I become phenomenally industrious to paraphrase some prominent Germans.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why will I use the above referred “legitimate narrative resources”? Because I feel there is massive universal and dysfunctional illiteracy concerning the rate of change. There has always been like that except but one feature. Now, the incumbents of supine ignorance are over-empowered by pervasive, yet inexpensive tools of creation and devastation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Even as headlines in “hard-copy” newspapers supersede the most creative fantasies embedded in science fiction, many incumbents just don’t get it. Others are really upset because they cannot understand why the PRESENT does not resemble the nearest PAST. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Others are paralyzed in and by the analyzes. And others manifest an anarchistic tendency towards society.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Through centuries, the greatest luminaries have greatly reflected and recommended not to fight against extraordinary forces, but to use them smartly. This time around, with the Kingdom of the “Society of Knowledge” ruling as the prominent Tudor family, one must become a cross-pollinated savant to navigate the waters shed by said forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT seems to be having a great deal of enjoyment by pontificating words and deeds solely engaged in exponential mediocrity, thus exploiting the worst of humankind as if it were the most desired quality. This featured quality by the PRESENT is pervasively horrendous and existentially damaging. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">On the contrary, the FUTURE is capable, and in fact it implements so, of doing well to the point we would astound ourselves. The actual quotation by Thomas Edison indicates: <i>“If we all did the things we are capable of doing well we would literally astound ourselves.”</i> [44]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As this material will portray, and very much to the advantage of the subject matter here dealt with, I carry and will carry on all my professional lines of practice with absolute agreement with Otto Herman Khan. He actually stated: <i>“I'm against fashionable thinking ... I'm against ignorance ... I am against the whole cliche of the moment ... I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking…”</i> [43]. The undersigned subscribes every declaration by Otto Herman Khan and supplement those with an additional one. <i>“I am against inexpensive thinking.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Technically correct thinking, for example, has no waiting allowance for the entire scientific establishment to disconfirm or to confirm evidence embedded in said “technically correct thinking” notion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Salvador Dali in seconding the motion by Khan offers us a thought: <i>“Get real; dream the impossible.” </i>However, if you dream the impossible, you must get prepared to work rigorously and smartly for a serious term of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">THE CHALLENGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">(by Paul Valéry, 1932)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilized life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made for regularity in the economy … in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals some confidence in the morrow … all this seems badly compromised. I have consulted all augurs I could find, of every species, and I have heard only vague words, contradictory prophecies, curiously feeble assurances. Never has humanity combined so much power with so much disorder, so much anxiety with so many playthings, so much knowledge with so much uncertainty…”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [56]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">EPIC OMISSION(S)?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">QUESTION: IGNORING COLOSSAL KNOWLEDGE CRITICALITY? LIVING IN THE SOCIETY OF KNOWLEDGE UTTERLY STATES THAT YOUR MIND WILL CATCH STATE-OF-THE-ART KNOWLEDGE BY OSMOSIS?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In aligning brains and leadership in the third millennium towards seizing actionable knowledge creation and utilization, Tichy points out some interesting reflections too often ignored by many private, public, NGO, supranational, and even academia incumbents:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The leadership job of the twenty-first century is to enhance brainpower of an organization by having leaders at all levels engaged in Virtuous Teaching Cycles. The case has been made that we now live in a knowledge era where the value of intellectual capital has supplemental physical assets. In this world, leaders must make everyone smarter while simultaneously aligning the energy and commitment of the people in their organizations … Thomas Stewart, a Fortune Editor and a leading thinker in the field, outlined the foundations for them knowledge economy with powerful simplicity in his most recent book, The Wealth of Knowledge: ‘The knowledge economy stands on three pillars. The first: Knowledge has become what we buy, sell, and do. It is the most important factor of production. The second pillar is a mate, a corollary to the first: Knowledge assets – that is, intellectual capital – have become more important to companies than financial and physical assets. The third pillar is this: To prosper in this new economy and exploit these newly vital assets, we need new vocabularies, new management techniques, new technologies, and new strategies. On three pillars rest all the new economy’s laws and its profits’…”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tichy supplements:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Stewart’s ranking reflects a massive movement underway to actually measure intellectual capital … The concept is correct and we put Stewart’s work right at the front … to reinforce the importance for companies to continue defining, measuring and improving ways of generating new intellectual capital … Teaching Organizations are the needed response to today’s emphasis on knowledge creation. Today, intellectual assets trump physical assets in nearly every industry.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tichy asserts:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Despite the boom and bust of the recent dot-bomb era, there is no question that we are in the early stages of an era in which technology and biotechnology will have inescapable consequences for how businesses are run and organized. The practices, systems, policies and mind-sets that prevailed in the old industrial economy will not do the job. The foregone conclusion of the late 1990s that the old industrial behemoths would be agile start-ups is equally wrong for the times.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And he also indicates:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Rather, we now know that the winners of the future will adapt and innovate to exploit emerging technological and social changes. They will be big, fast, and smart. The winners will create value by having a workforce that is more aligned, energized and smarter than their competitors. They will leverage size and act with speed across internal and external organizational boundaries.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [42]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">THE PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGE AMONG IGNORAMUSES?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ignoramuses of supine ignorance speaking to and with other ignoramuses of supine ignorance: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“We’ll infect you with the same orthodoxies we’ve infected everyone else in your industry.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">DAKOTA TRIBAL WISDOM AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you’re on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it’s cheaper to feed a dead chapter. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you’ve tried all these things, you’re still going to have to dismount.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">TO BE OR NOT TO BE IN EXECUTION?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Many scientific researchers are concluding that the act of setting the brain to reflect, make a thought, conceive an idea and so on are not matters of being abstract or only into theory. They insist that any action, deed or execution is preceded by the action of “firing” the genes that operate upon the neuro-cells, including the neurons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">For long many ignoramuses have insisted that they don’t think but operate. It’s impossible to operate the mind (FIRST) to operate in the physical and/or virtual worlds (SECOND) with the absolute authorization, tutelage and mandate of the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Every organ and every limb exist to operate of the “life-supporting” sub-system of the greatest monarch, the brain literally. I believe that a quotation from the </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Far East</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> will stage matters in greater perspectives:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ancient Chinese Proverb: “It is not our feet that move us along – it is our minds.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [79]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION AND THE ABSENCE OF COHESIVE LANGUAGE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">For a long time some cultures have immensely insisted that word economization is vital and proper communication etiquette. In the process, too many laggards use this FALSE argument to insist that you are to speak and write briefly, even if in economizing “words” you are also economizing most vital facts to be ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Information Technology, The Society of Knowledge and the Global Village are not so to be simplistic and briefer. Even before the advent of the Internet, many top corporate leaders would tell their lieutenants not to send to them memos longer than one page. Then, the corporate royal could not explain to the shareholders why a major operation, say, in </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Asia</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> went so deep into red numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This is a major blunder by gigantic chunks of the civilization. The Japanese and the German, to cite two examples, will always appreciate every detail. To them what is key is not the length of the document, but to be incontrovertible thorough whether in one or five hundred pages. What matters is relevance regardless of length.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Serious think tanks incumbents must go through colossal volumes of research. And, believe or not, that makes a vital difference.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Pay great attention to a letter that I will now quote by Napoleon to one of his general. Incidentally, as in the Industrial Military Complex, DARPA, and NASA if you can put any “light” or profound idea or comment is useless if it’s not documented in writing. And in operational guidelines, directives and standards anything said verbally (not in writing) has no effect at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Napoleon wrote to his General the ensuing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Your letter tells me nothing. You will however have to be able to interrogate in order to know the names of the regiments and the commanding general and a hundred things, all very important – the morale of the troops, the way in which they are fed, the strength of the different units, and what is known from conservations with the colonels and officers of the corps. … I expected several pages and I get only two lines. Redeem all that by writing me in great detail.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">ARE YOU FIGHTING AGAINST THE “DEMON OF DECAY”?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“In the age of revolution, the future is not an echo of the past. While every executive understands this intellectually, it is quite another thing to stand in front of your organization, and investors, and boldly confront the demon of decay. But investors and employees are smart enough to know that sooner or later every company has to a strategy ‘un-install’...”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The future is not a privilege but a perpetual conquest.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> Attributed to Robert Kennedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">BONAPARTE’S PROPHECIES ON HURRICANE KATRINA’ AND </span></b><st1:place><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">GULF OF MEXICO</span></b></st1:place><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">’S SINCE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Many people have bitterness recallings of Napoleon. Many countries in </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and especially the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> have established military doctrine on Bonaparte’s teaching. The institutionalization of these teaching are beyond official.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What I like the most about this man was his insatiable search for self-learning, and self-learning about: 1) English, 2) Mathematics, 3) Science, 4) Management, 5) Systems Approach, 6) Organization stewarding, and 7) Indisputable wisdom. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">He didn’t just like these subject matters; he applied them lavishly and thus conquered </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and even </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> through these disciplines in times in which every portion of land in that continent was waging war among neighbors. Too many kings and queens until the Emperor rose upon all of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By coalescing his entire beloved subject matters – both in their theoretical, empirical, and practical modes –, he indisputably birthed an array of composite stratagems. If you are as thoughtful as I think you are, the idea is to in-source your brain with empirical recommendations to formulate winning composite stratagems in your diverse entrepreneurial activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">On geology Napoleon generally reflects:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“It is very important … to have good maps of all the country between the </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Adige</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, the </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Po</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, and the Adda … which will probably be the theater of new wars on the same scale as the large map of </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Italy</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">. It is necessary to have all reconnaissances made at the Topographical Bureau of War in order that we could, if necessary, send the generals all suitable instructions. Then, from the commencement of war, they would know the defensive campaign field-works that will have to be prepared in the various positions in case of unfortunate developments …. I believe that the topographical engineers work, but I am not sure that they work according to good fundamental principles. We have them produce registers of the survey of lands and not military maps, which means that in twenty years, and I don’t know how many engineers and how much money, to map only a portion of the departments of Rhine and Moselle and Mont-Tonnerre, which are truly important. To make twenty years to finish maps and plans is to work too much</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <i>posterity …. How many circumstances could occur over the next twenty years that we would regret? If one of them had been on the scale of a Cassini map we could already have had all of the </i></span><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Rhine</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> frontier. How many circumstances could occur over the next twenty years where we will regret them? … What events can occur, even for this accumulation of paper, before we can reap any advantage from all this work? I don’t know why war is waged with this type of map … The fact is, I have not had, on my visit to the Rhine, any map where I could gain knowledge of the country. We have to draw maps of Mont-Blanc … and the </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Piedmont</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> the same progress that we followed for the departments of the </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Rhine</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, nothing will be finished in our lifetime …. Engineers are too much masters of what they wish to do. I have not asked for anything other than the completion of the Cassini map. Rest assured that the operations are not directed on projects that are too vast. Experience proves that the greatest defect in general administration is to want to do too much: that results in not having what is needed … Order them especially to mark clearly the nature of the different roads, in order to distinguish those which are practicable or impracticable for artillery. If all the debouches of the Black Mountains are accurately located, this map will be one of the most essential that we could have</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> <i>for.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;">STRATEGOS INSTITUTE’S CEO AND </span></b><st1:place><st1:placename><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;">LONDON</span></b></st1:placename><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;"> </span></b><st1:placename><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;">BUSINESS</span></b></st1:placename><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;"> </span></b><st1:placetype><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;">SCHOOL</span></b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18pt;">’S PROFESSOR ON THE FUTURE AND THE DERIVED ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY FRAMEWORK<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="addmd"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By Gary Hamel, PhD: <i>“We believe that the goal is not to predict the future, but to imagine a future made possible by changes in technology, life style, work style, regulation, global geopolitics, and the like. And there are as many viable futures as there as imaginative firms that can understand deeply the dynamics at work right now which hold opportunities to become the author of the new. For the future is not what will happen; the future is what is happening.<span style=""> </span>The present and the future don’t abut each other, neatly divided between the five-year plan and the great unknown beyond. Rather they are intertwined. Every company is in the process of becoming – of becoming an anachronism irrelevant to the future, or of becoming the harbinger of the future. The long-term is not something that happens someday; it is what every company is building or forfeiting …. Only those who can imagine and preemptively create the future will be around to enjoy it … Creating a compelling view of tomorrow’s opportunities and moving preemptively to secure the future are tasks for neither dilettantes nor the merely intellectual curious … Other companies, the laggards, were more interested in protecting the past than in creating the future … We believe, and will argue strongly, that a company must not only get to the future first, it must get there for less …. And reengineering charge is simply the penalty that a company must pay for not having anticipated the future …. If senior executives don’t have reasonably detailed answers to the ‘future’ set of questions, and if the answers they do have are not substantially different from the ‘today’ answers, there is little chance their companies will remain market leaders …. For much of the 1980s, IBM had been driving toward the future while looking out the rear-view mirror …. Too often, profound thinking about the future and how to shape it occurs only when present success has been substantially eroded …. Creating the future is more challenging than playing catch up, in that you have to create your own road map ….<span style=""> </span>The goal is not simply to benchmark a competitor’s products and processes and imitate its methods, but to develop an independent point of view</i> <i>about tomorrow’s opportunities and how to exploit them. Pathbreaking is a lot more rewarding than benchmarking. One doesn’t get to the future first by letting someone else blaze the trail …. Passengers will get to the future, but their fate will not be in their own hands. Theirs profits from the future will be modest at best. Those who drive industry revolution – companies that have a clear, permeated view of where they want tom take their industry and are capable of orchestrating resources inside and outside the company to get there first – will be handsomely rewarded… The future is not an extrapolation of the past. New industrial structures will supersede old industrial structures …. Opportunities that at first blush seem evolutionary will prove to be revolutionary …. A commitment substantial enough to beget the perseverance required to create the future must be based on something more than a hunch …. But to create the future, a company must first be able to forget some of its past … ‘The future was predictable, but hardly anyone predicted it’ …”</i> </span></span><span style="" lang="EN-US">[87]<span class="addmd"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">TEXTBOOK’S INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS BY ENLIGHTENED MINDS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There is a great deal of publishing about change and coping with it and its consequences. I have the firmest belief that there is a huge lack of understanding how change can change its own nature. Bacon, ensuing, makes a legendary quotation about it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sir Francis Bacon: <i>“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.” </i>[2]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Where does the computation care the most?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“Irrigate your radiant thinking irradiantly back and fort to computronium and multiverse until you start seizing actionable and applicable knowledge from those theaters of operations in which you execute.”</i> </span><st1:time minute="5" hour="4"><span style="" lang="EN-US">4:05 a.m.</span></st1:time><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">USA</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">’s EST – </span><st1:date year="2010" day="21" month="6"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Monday, June 21, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US"> ― [84], [85], [92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There are many that believe to have a vested interest in fossilized pasts. To those Hamel has a word of wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Prof. Gary Hamel, PhD: <i>“Denial is tragic. Delay is deadly.” </i>[64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Zero emotional intelligence, zero political correction, and only genuineness’?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“Incessantly follow constructive your omniscience-driven bliss a cappella without innuendos for Life.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What can knowledge do for progress and modernity?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edward Teller: <i>“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”</i> [83]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Are you emotionally stable before the Future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: <i>“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What computes what and through which? I just wonder!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <span style=""> </span><i>“It seems to me that Dark Matter is the Universe’s computational hardware while the Dark Energy is the Universe’s computational software.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Concurrent paradoxes are useful to applied science?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edward Teller: <i>“Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.”</i> [93]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“The Universe embeds and/or sources computing and calculating capabilities into your prepared-mind bio computer. Whether you take advantage or not, that’s another ball game.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Is there future cleverness? Can we ask Bill Gates?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Patrick Dixon: <i>“Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you – be futurewise.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Will the immutable life-cycle will be altered with nano-technology and bio-technology?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“Until rigor mortis is completed, there’d better be rigor juris only.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From neuron activation to execution activation?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“Think long enough to over-accomplish forever.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What is the expectation?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD: <i>“Hope is a memory of the future.”</i> [59]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The profound insight, from a prominent British leader, is always illuminating:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What is the successful “stupid” in Twentieth-One Century?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“In order to have a successful ‘the economy first, stupid,’ you must FIRST succeed thoroughly on ‘the applied omniscience, stupid’ notion.” </i>― </span><st1:time minute="7" hour="23"><span style="" lang="EN-US">11:07 p.m.</span></st1:time><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">USA</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">’s EST ― </span><st1:date year="2010" day="18" month="7"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Saturday, July 18 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>–<span style=""> </span>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Do we respect solemnly time and its passage?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">William Shakespeare (Macbeth): <i>“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">W. E. Gladstone – British Prime Minister – (1809 – 1898): <i>“You cannot fight against the future.” </i>[17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Future and the genius?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ernest Dimnet: <i>“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised </i></span><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edison</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">'s inventions.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Future-liable if you don’t pay attention?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">John Galsworthy: <i>“If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Taking ownership of times to come?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Malcolm X: <i>“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Either or what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anthony J. D'Angelo: <i>“Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How do we sign up by phenomenal lots of tons of smart work?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Leonard I. Sweet: <i>“The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Is too much history studying dangerous?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Michael Cibenko:<span style=""> </span><i>“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Where is the quadrant domicile of true success?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Denny Crum: <i>“Most of our future lies ahead.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Perpetual learning for Life?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">John Wayne: <i>“Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at </i></span><st1:time minute="0" hour="0"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">midnight</span></i></st1:time><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In Shock, Awe and Bewilderment for not Understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alvin Toffler: <i>“Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Do people have an innate “love affair” with speed?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Henry Ford: <i>“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Recalling not to fail into what?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">George Santayana: <i>“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The larger historic perspective is good for which purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Unknown author: <i>“Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Grave implications of contrarians to fostering change?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Max Planck: <i>“An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Who gets the practical and useful merit?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thomas Edison: <i>“I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Learning from the past?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dillon Wardian: <i>“Those who know their past are tempted to repeat it but on the winning side.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Buying your membership to the future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mehmet ildan: <i>“Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <span style=""> </span><i>“Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In seriously rigorous thinking, there is an important maxim to bear in mind at all times. It establishes: <i>“whatever is now working is already obsolete.”</i> In the case of already-forewarned scientists, this implies to evolve or to radicalize the evolution of any tangibles or intangibles. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How does one discipline the mind?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Honoré de Balzac: <i>“The mind is enabled by rigid deduction to link it with the past; and to man, the past is singularly like the future; tell him what has been, and you seldom fail to show him what will be.” </i>[82]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Is it about inspiration, is it about knowledge or is it about both jointly?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Bernie Siegel, MD: <i>“I’m always saying that knowledge isn’t power if you don’t have inspiration.” </i>[59]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What can we do instead of what can we stomach and mind?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dandridge M. Cole: <i>“We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How does one connect today with future?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“My Colleagues at the Long Foundation have helped me see the surprising connections between today and the deep future.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">During the Cold War times, there is an invaluable thought about the moment’s<i> zeitgeist</i>:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">President John F. Kennedy’s speech on September 12, 1962 at Race University: <i>“Despite the striking fact that most of the scientists that the world has ever known are alive and working today, despite the fact that this Nation’s own scientific manpower is doubling every 12 years in a rate of growth more than three times that of our population as a whole, despite that, the vast stretches of the unknown and the unanswered and the unfinished still far outstrip our collective comprehension.” </i>[80]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Past Versus Now Caparison”</span></i></b><span style="" lang="EN-US"> now available in slides is a good graphic perspective of the impact of change. [93]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Chairman and CEO of the Juran Institute, A. Blantow Godfrey, in 1995 indicated to this end: <i>“What we know today is far greater than what we knew a few years ago.”</i> [91]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What kind of a keel does a vessel need to explore the unexplored with the unthinkable thinking perspective?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“At the beginning of this book I used river rafting as an analogy for the future. But perhaps sailing is a better metaphor.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How early your punctuality must be?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">M.El Banna: <i>“The only way you can see the future is if you're ahead of your own time.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Are we lacking what type of understanding?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Gargosian: <i>“We are walking toward the edge of a cliff—blindfolded…Our ability to understand the potential for future abrupt changes in climate is limited by our lack of understanding of the processes that control them.” </i>[78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There is a very important scientific truism to bear in mind at any cost. It ensues, <i>“everything is related to everything else.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Through absolute cognition and scientific methodology application, How does one identify the driving forces of underneath that will re-shape it all?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“This is not fortune-telling. This is not crystal-ball gazing. This is merely describing future implications of something that has already happened.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Will we ever understand that what really doesn’t exist at all is the PRESENT – so called? And that what we call PRESENT is a brief interim from and by the FUTURE?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Andrei Linde: <i>“It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.” </i>[96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Some of the problems we have might be explicated here. Ensuing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mrs. Manley (1663 – 1724) – English novelist and playwright: <i>“No time like the present.” </i>[2] The only problem, Mrs. Manley, is that your beloved “present” is beyond impermanent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Rehearsing into authentic own bliss?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The undersigned and the present material’s author: <i>“Within all genuineness, rehearse and practice who you want to be and what you want to execute.” </i>[92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Where is our north’s domicile?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Jean-Marie Guyau: <i>“The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for.”</i> [96]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The future, the West, </span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Europe</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and the ensuing perspective.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoi (1828 – 1910): <i>“I am convinced that the history of so-called scientific work in our famous centuries of European civilization will, in a couple of hundred years, represent an inexhaustible source of laughter and sorrow for future generations. The learned men of the small western part of our European continent lived for several centuries under the illusion that the eternal blessed life was the West’s future. They were interested in the problem of when and where this blessed life would come. But they never thought of how they were going to make their life better.”</i> [69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A perspective that might prove helpful somewhat now:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Horace Mann (1796 – 1859) – American educationist –: <i>“Lost, yesterday, somewhere between </i></span><st1:city><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sunrise</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">[2]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Success comes along with tons and tons of smart and smarter work!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Gifford Pinchot: <i>“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.”</i> [93]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">When evolution gets radicalized in applied science, a so-called breakthrough takes place. Hence, Einstein makes the case now:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein: <i>“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” </i>[4]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">If every one of the seven continents have been discovered, Is there anyone missing yet?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“This bridge to the future will enable those who dare to make the journey from this century to the next … and beyond.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The quotation about Physics, History, Education, Mathematics and the Future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The future of Thought, and therefore of History, lies in the hands of the physicists, and … the future historian must seek his education in the world of mathematical physics. A new generation must be brought up to think by new methods, and if our historical departments in the Universities cannot enter this next phase, the physical departments will have to assume this task alone.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In understanding at least the complexities embedded in the Universe, there is an Englishman with a great perspective. His quote ensues:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">G.K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936), Essayist, Novelist, and Poet: <i>“The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is not an illogicality; yet is a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden, its wildness lies in wait.” </i>[57]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What are intelligence and the brain’ and genome’s projected mind good for?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">R. W. Young: <i>“Intelligence is that faculty of mind by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered.”</i> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In making the case against the so-called power of simplicity and countering the existence of complexity, chiefly in an age bathed of enormous complexities, there are two prominent minds to quote. In one instance, Dr. Albert Einstein points out: <i>“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” </i>[60] In supporting this motion further, Dr. Aubrey de Grey establishes: <b><i>“To solve a very complicated problem, you generally need a fairly complicated solution.”</i></b> [59]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the mean time, zillions and jillions will insist many times over that tackling complexities are needless, especially when doing easy “stuff” is ubiquitously fun and available. Then, Dr. Bertrand Russell will be gravely forewarning them of his famous sentence: <i>“I know of more people who'd rather die than think.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Does age become a liability in showing the futuristic lights of modernity and justice?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mae Wets: <i>“You’re never too old to become younger.”</i> [78]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Most people think that this is the “knowledge society” or the “knowledge economy” because they can do so-called “networking” (whether fruitful or not) over the web via a technological platform termed the Internet. Look at the following take by Noel M. Tichy:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“We have made the case throughout this book, and most people agree, that in the new ‘knowledge economy’ the key to winning is maximizing human capital. Ideas and knowledge have replaced physical goods as the most valued commodities in the global marketplace. Consequently, brains, energy and talent – human capital – are the primary source of value creation. But while many people and organizations grasp the concept, few have figured out how to really utilize the talents and knowledge of everyone in the company, especially the younger members of the company.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><span style=""> </span>[42]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From mysticism to science, the future and an interesting quotation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Rosario M. Levins: <i>“Mythical thought is not pre-scientific; rather it anticipates the future state of being a science in that its past movement and its present direction are always in the same sense.”</i> [69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 24 or November 25, 1958) was an American inventor and the holder of 140 patents. He was a founder of Delco, and was head of research for General Motors for 27 years from 1920 to 1947. He had a solid quotation about the future: <i>“The future is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The quotation on analytics, science and future. Ensuing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Charles Babbage (1792 – 1871): <i>“The whole of the developments and operations of analysis are now capable of being executed by machinery … As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessary guide the future course of science.”</i><span style=""> </span>[69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">One of </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">’ and the world’s greatest and most rigorous intellect with a perspective embedded in the future. He, Henry Buckminster Fuller, successfully tackles a continuously and increasingly puzzling problem. As follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Richard Buckminster Fuller reminds us of the following: <i>“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”</i> [5]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Speaking seriously as I do in the entirety of this textbook, some scientific research preliminary yet unconfirmed outcomes and findings seem to suggest that the future rules the present. The German philosopher Nietzsche has his own lucid position. <i>“It’s our future that lays down the law of our today.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The quotation about the study, the past and the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Stuart A. Copans: <i>“Study the past if you would divine the future.”</i> [69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The quotation abut foretelling: Unknown: <i>“Declare the past, diagnose the present, [and] foretell the future.” </i>[69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By unknown author: <i>“The future belongs to science and to those who make friends with science.” </i>[69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By unknown author this quotation is about the atom, uncertainty, science and the future. Following: <i>“…bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.” </i>[69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Prometheus Bound quotation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Aeschylus (453 BC): <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Prometheus: My mother …<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">foretold me, that not brute strength<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Not violence, but cunning must give victory<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">To the rulers of the future.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By unknown author: <i>“It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.” </i>[69]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Elliot on the present and the past.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">T. S. Elliot (1888 – 1965): <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Time present and time past<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Are both perhaps present in time future,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">And time future contained in time past.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The past, the future and the interlude that connects both.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Eugene O’Neill (1888 – 1953): <i>“The only living life is in the past and future … the present is an interlude … strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness we are living.” </i>[70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Bismarck</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and his lack of faith on the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A. J. P. Taylor (1906 – 1990): <i>“</i></span><st1:city><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Bismarck</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> was a political genius of the highest rank, but he lacked one essential quality of the constructive statesman: he had no faith in the future.” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">[70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">God, the Nineteenth and twenty century, as well as the Future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Max Frisch (1911 – 1991):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Who does the future belong to?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Pierre Trudeau (1919 – 2000): <i>“The twentieth century really belongs to those who will build it. The future can be promised to no one.” </i>[70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Foreseeing the Future out of the Fossilized Past?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797): <i>“You can never plan the future by the past.” </i>[70]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: <i>“It’s our future that lays down the law of our today.”</i> [6] It’s advantageous to understand what a prominent 120-year-old corporation such as GE is now considering. This quote is attributed to GE’s current CEO, Jeff Immelt: <i>“I have to lead for tomorrow’s world.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Question: How is the future manufactured? Reply by Prof. Gary Hamel, PhD:<span style=""> </span><i>“The future is the creation of millions of independent economic actors.” </i>[64]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In speaking of change and social systems’ reactions, it is wise to listen to Ralph Waldo Emerson: <i>“There are always two parties – the party of the past and the party of the future, the establishment and the movement.”</i> [64] As per the Oxford Dictionary, The Establishment refers to: <i>“…social group exercising authority or influence, and generally seeking to resist change.”</i> [65]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We cannot solve problems planted in the past. But we can solve problems to come (in the future). Ergo, former </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US"> president Roosevelt makes a great appeal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Theodore Roosevelt: <i>“All the resources we need are in the mind.”</i> [7]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">A take regarding time progression and retrogression, Sir James Jeans establishes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sir James Jeans – English Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician – (1877 – 1946) : <i>“Taking a very gloomy view of the future of the human race, let us suppose that it can only expect to survive for two thousand million years longer, a period about equal to the past age of the earth. Then, regarded as a being destined to live for </i></span><st1:time minute="20" hour="15"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">three score</span></i></st1:time><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">-years and then humanity, although it has been born in a house seventy years old, is itself three days old.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It is indispensable to create whatever future you conceive by and for yourself. Is there a better tool than your most cultivated and prepared mind thinking in unthinkables? Please quit now that foolish intuitiveness <i>à la </i>(the pre-Cro-Magnon) </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Savannah</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> thinking, since this is a different temporal locus for certain. See Emerson’s take:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ralph Waldo Emerson writes: <i>“Man hopes; Genius creates.”</i> [8]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In order to work for the matters that make us hope, we must bluntly face the matters that besiege our own existence, the ones elicited by us and the ones elicited by the people that we don’t even like. Dr. Knowles, a connoted American and greatly regarded into adult education, has a lucid position that can serve us as a starting point. Following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Malcolm Knowles PhD addresses ignoramuses of supine ignorance: <i>“The greatest danger for the survival of the present civilization is neither atomic war, nor environmental pollution, nor the exploitation of natural resources, and nor present crises. The underlying cause to all of the above is the acceleration of man’s obsolescence … The only hope seems to be an electroshock program to re-instill to the present adults the competencies required to function adequately under a mode of perpetual change. This is a profound need – the immeasurable challenge – that is presented by the modern society to adult education.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Disraeli’s wise take:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Benjamin Disraeli – British Prime Minister – (1804 – 1881): <i>“Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.”</i> [17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Former Federal Supreme Court Justice Sandra O’Connor gave a brief interview in 2009. She is mobilized into telling people that children and youngsters must be taught both a) Civics and b) History. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Clearly, having seen so much mistaken people led to grave imprisonment sentences, O’Connor indicates that many of the people did not understand the basics about 1) living civilly in society, 2) respecting the mandates of the “Law Of The Land,” and 3) understanding where society and, in her case, the U.S. comes from (through systematic study of history) to comprehend where are we likely to go or not. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">On education and to this end, Dr. Skinner made an important point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Burrhus Frederic Skinner PhD, <i>“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.” </i>[9]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Fromm makes a point that supplements, to some extent, Knowles’ and Skinner’s point of view:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Erich Fromm – American philosopher and physiologist – (1900 – 1980): <i>“In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.”</i> [17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">What is the inner-workings of time as per Orwell? Ensuing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">George Orwell (1903 – 1950): <i>“Who controls the future; who controls the present controls the past … If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” </i>[17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Question: Is this is a mistake universally made by the great majority? Meaning:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797): <i>“You can never plan the future by the past.” </i>[17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Horace (65 – 8 BC): <i>“While we’re talking, envious time is fleeing: seize the day, but no trust in the future … The year and the hour which rob us of the fair day warn us not to hope for things to last for ever.” </i>[17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How can we state the bond between the future and past:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Eugene O’Neill (1888 – 1953): <i>“The only living life is in the past and future … the present is an interlude … strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness we are living.” </i>[17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Elliot further adds creativity to understanding time:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">T.S. Elliot – Thomas Stearns Elliot – (1888 – 1965): <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Time present and time past <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Are both perhaps present in time future,<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">And time future contained in time past.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [17]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We see a host of manufacturers of all types of products, including automakers and their cars. In great many cases and as people have been concerning about being so-called “global winners” in their respective industries, they were adding to their products more and more features. Features equate with “increased complexities.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">That is, they were adding great complexity while defying that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Evidently, you can add every thinkable and unthinkable “complexity” to your products, as long as you greatly upgrade the scrutinizing vista of the entirety of the systems and the dynamic interactions among i) hardware (amplest meaning), ii) software (amplest meaning), and iii) humans themselves (both the ones represented by the manufacturers as well as those being end users). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Since you cannot use the same knowledge repository in making the features-adding-to-your-products effort, you’d better pay attention to Einstein’s wise words.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Albert Einstein: <i>“A problem can never be solved at the same level of knowledge that was created.” </i>[10]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the seventeenth century </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Milton</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> made a point that in my opinion is valid today. <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>In arguing to free technology, <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>capable of great good but also of great evil, <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>John Milton (1644 ) <span style=""> </span>expressed majestic confidence in our ability to prevail: <span style=""> </span><i>“Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof we are,<span style=""> </span>and whereof ye are the governors:<span style=""> </span>a Nation not slow and dull,<span style=""> </span>but of quick,<span style=""> </span>ingenious,<span style=""> </span>and piercing spirit,<span style=""> </span>acute to invent,<span style=""> </span>subtle and sinewy to discourse,<span style=""> </span>not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.” </i>[ 52 ] This has been the point of view of an Englishman about </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">England</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Nicholas von Hoffman – <span style=""> </span>an American's view on England elicited to other Americans and author of the book “A Devil’s Dictionary of Business” (2005), ISBN 1-56025-712-1 – <span style=""> </span>indicated: <i>“England ... the land whence American business sprang, a fact that may come as news to Americans, who believed that everything good and worthwhile has its origins in the United States. The foundations of English business practices go back to late-medieval </i></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Italy</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and sixteenth-century </span></i><st1:city><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Holland</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, but they had taken on distinctive forms of their own by the time the </span></i><st1:city><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">London</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> stock market opened in 1690. Thenceforth, if not earlier, North American business copied the English, particularly as English businessmen put steam technology to work to foment the Industrial Revolution. Not only did </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">England</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> lead the world with the invention of such trifles as the railroad, but the great early nineteenth-century American advances in canal and railroad building were paid for by English investors.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [62] <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Was Thomas Jefferson </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-US">’s first futurist? He proclaimed:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thomas Jefferson: <i>“I prefer the stories of the future than history.” </i>[11] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Speaking of not changing the current state of affairs, Dr. Kissinger, especially addressed for people how to approach this maxim: <i>“first, foremost and never do not harm,”</i> (mostly taken from the Latin sentence: <i>“Primum non nocere”) </i>by stating:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dr. Henry Kissinger addresses: <i>“An ignored issue is an invitation to a problem.” </i>[12]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Former U.K. Prime Minister Churchill is incontrovertibly considered by many one of the greatest political intellects. He had a great position on the future, stating:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sir Winston Churchill: <i>“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”</i> [13]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There are many fallacies and ill-conceived assumptions and outdated conventions that even smart people hold dearly without subjecting said fallacies and assumptions to great testing to attempt to disprove them to gain further insight and mental acuity of what holds true and what doesn’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Antonio Machado: <i>“The eye is not an eye because you see it. The eye is an eye because it sees you.” </i>[14]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">After the insight by Machado, there is additional thoughtfulness along these lines:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Panchatantra (body of Eastern philosophical knowledge) <<http: org="" wiki="" panchatantra="">>: <b><i>“Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.” </i></b>[15]<o:p></o:p></http:></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Seeing through the eyes of applied science (and actionable omniscience) is, in my view, the optimum mode and here lies further food for thought:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Bernard d'Espagnat: <i>“Even if the Universe is a little myopic is true that, more than others, MEN OF SCIENCE ARE ITS EYES.” </i>[16]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Drucker was blamed often of self-praising himself about his capability of foretelling the future. This is his take on it:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Peter Drucker: <i>“Things that have already happened but whose consequences have not been realized [because they were not imagined, considered, scrutinized or envisioned by disciplined foresight and far-sight extending and expanding both sides of the human brain] … Don’t confuse movement with progress.”</i> [17] Brackets are mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2009, Dr. Watson explained the vast significance of science:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In a 2009 interview to Charlie Rose Show, Nobel laureate Dr. James D. Watson, PhD: <i>“Science gives society a great sense of decisive freedom.”</i> [18]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There has never been a greater importance to the most sophisticated education, especially to science, math, and engineering (and most of the times, the three of them simultaneously). The ensuing quotation accordingly goes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Arthur C. Clarke: <i>“We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half of the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?” </i>[19]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Regardless of how difficult, every responsible adult must assume the difficulties of the present realities. Then, s/he can establish a plan of action to work through those realities to overcome those realities. Khan offers important insight now.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Otto Herman Khan: <i>“Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than forecloses them.”</i> [20]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Time and action are invaluable resources. Verify the ensuing quotation:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">General Francisco de Miranda: <i>“Time is the context by means of which action is delivered.” </i>[21]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Unthinkable thinking will increasingly prove itself the most sensible decision. The greatest un-commonality to the commonsensical commons.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Oscar Wilde: <i>“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To be capitalistic in general requires having a good “relationship” with machines and even increasingly sophisticated automation. By every account, Mrs. Katharine Hepburn is a great democratic and civilized person and never a prominent activist of anything else but the center, made a wonderful claim. As follows: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mrs. Katharine Hepburn: <i>“Nature … is what we are put in this world to rise above.”</i> [52]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Daring circumstances are for the tough-minded, resilient, resolved, as well as for those who combine boldness with prudence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Ella Wheeler Wilcox: <i>“There is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent, hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How do freedom, security, safety, reliability, reason coalesce and intertwine?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Sir Karl Popper: <i>“We must plan for freedom, and not only for security [and safety and reliability], if for no other reason than that only [extremely educated] freedom can make security secure [and safety safe and reliability reliable].” Brackets are mine. </i>[51]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Before challenging situations, don’t rule it out or oversimplify it without first trying to research those situations and begin asking both silly and exuberant questions lavishly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In second-guessing responsibly the future, not to foretell but to make mental options for omni-mode preparedness to avoid being strategically surprised, I recommend the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alan Turing (1950): <i>“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Many were complaining about the uniqueness of the ideas and reflections by some people with profound analytic abilities. Those complains were aired to a colonel who listened up and kept silence. UNTIL THE U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL ANSWERED BACK AND WHO REPEATED IT FREQUENTLY: <i>“It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool that open your mouth and remove any doubt.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">All quotations not otherwise cited are from the interviews conducted by the author or personal communications sent to the author.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">THE FUTURE AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY AS PER RAY KURZWEIL, PH.D.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">From </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Boston</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and dated </span><st1:date year="2010" day="2" month="6"><span style="" lang="EN-US">June 02, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US"> I received an e-mail with an invitation to a documentary film on the future, the technological singularity, to be developed by Dr. Ray Kurzweil, PhD.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Inventor Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading futurists, with a 20 year track record of accurate predictions. Called the “restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil was selected as one of the top entrepreneurs by Inc. magazine, which described him as the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison.” Inventor of the first CCD flat bed scanner and many other firsts, Kurzweil is an inductee in the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Medal of Technology, the Lemelson-MIT Prize (the world’s largest for innovation), and 19 honorary doctorates and awards from three U.S. presidents. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the message contained in that e-mail it is indicated:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Beginning of citation as per the invitation via e-mail on “The Singularity is Near” film.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“In The Singularity Is Near and Chairman of the Singularity University (supported by NASA and Google and operated on NASA Ames Research Campus) predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become trillions of times more powerful and increasingly merged with computers. This will be the dawning of a new civilization, enabling us to transcend our biological limitations. In Kurzweil’s post-biological world, boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death. He maintains a radically optimistic view of the future course of human development while acknowledging profound new dangers.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“According to Bill Gates, ‘Kurzweil is the best person I know at predicting the future,’... “Kurzweil envisions a future in which information technologies have advanced so far and fast that they enable humanity to transcend its biological limitations – <span style=""> </span>transforming our lives in ways we can’t yet imagine.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Kurzweil, through his extensive works (including in his the feature-length documentary film), examines the social and philosophical implications of these profound changes and the potential threats they pose to human civilization in dialogues with big thinkers, including former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard A. Clarke; technologists Bill Joy, Mitch Kapor, Marvin Minsky, Eric Drexler, Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal; Future Shock author Alvin Toffler; civil liberties lawyer Alan Dershowitz; venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and environmentalist Bill McKibben.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Final citation of as per the invitation via e-mail on “The Singularity is Near” film.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? HOW MANY “NOWS” ARE THERE? ARE THOSE “NOWS” STILL RELEVANT?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Swift and swirling change, peril, complexity, and newness do not function alone. They are deeply inter-meshed, interactive, and transforming, as well as transformational. Using the genetic and biological parlance, you’d better believe that this a multi-fold epoch, evermore unfolding, in which mutations and transmutations are taking place across the board.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">You can open up new doors for yourself, see new options, minimize significant mistakes, and maximize potential understandings. In order for you to act decisively successful, you’d better have a lucid comprehension of said understanding for Life. A lucid comprehension will come to you by the greatest <span style=""> </span>― tough and subtle <span style=""> </span>― omni-mode and through the most insidious application of the scientific method, especially through exact sciences aiming solely to the state-of-the-art generation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Because of the forces exerted by the FUTURE upon the PRESENT, this Era streams rising ambiguity, ambivalence, dichotomy, uncertainty, complexity, conflict, bewilderment and yet unprecedented possibilities. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It’s greatly convenient recalling the luminescent thought by the prominent German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: <i>“It’s our future that lays down the law of our today.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It’s advantageous to understand what a prominent 120-year-old corporation such as GE is considering since September 2001. This quote is attributed to GE’s current CEO, Jeff Immelt: <i>“I have to lead for tomorrow’s world.” What about you? Will you lead for yesterday's world?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It is for leaders to fall into the trap of thinking that planning ahead and building for the FUTURE is an incredible luxury of inaccuracy. IT IS NOT. IT IS AN ABSOLUTE AND MOST INDISPENSABLE NECESSITY FOR LIFE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">But anyone who underestimates the revolutionary character of today’s changes is living a too-uncontrolled an illusion. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Zen Buddhists will offer you unprecedented lectures on reality being the greatest mental “fabrication” by the hominid's mind. The world, that of physical “existence” and manufactured by the mind, is being transformed dramatically and irrevocably, second by second all of the time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Juxtapositions of many knowledge dominions will bring about the greatest scientific convergence ever in the years ahead. Some people like James Canton suggest these forces becoming and rendering “weird science” in every sphere in our lives. [22]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">With each passing day, change quickens everyday at a faster-and-faster, nonlinear, discontinuous and counter-intuitive rate. In the mean time, Evelyn Lindner reminds us of the following: <i>“Pessimism is a luxury of good times … In difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tichy made a relevant contribution to understanding the nature of swirling changes. I quote some of his excerpts:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Speed and constant motion are the hallmark characteristics of life in the twenty-first century. The driving / enabling force behind them is the technology that allows almost instant access to information, and with each advance in technology the concept of ‘fast’ is only going to get faster.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And Tichy added:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“This access comes not only in the form of the ability to move data around the world in nanosecond (one billionth,10^–9, of a second), but also in the ability to sift through and manipulate it. Patterns and trends that were impossible to see in the days when information [based on throughput-ed numerical and narrative data] was housed in mainframe computers that required IT professionals to access, are now readily visible to anyone with a PC and a hookup who cares to apply a few screens.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Subsequently, he continues:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Moreover, as technology shrinks the cycle between an action, a reaction and a re-reaction, it becomes possible for people who might otherwise never be in direct contact to engage in a nearly constant flow of dialogue. The result is not only that technicians in Bangalore, India, and Waukesha, Wisconsin, can seamlessly work on the same project, passing it off as the day ends in one hemisphere and begins in the other, but also that a newly hired consultant at EDS can have a meaningful dialogue via videos and e-mails with CEO Dick Brown about what he sees in his territory.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And Tichy observes:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Meanwhile, markets for goods and services and the capital markets change directions with astounding speed. Consumer trends [because of the multitude of driving forces that propels said forces] are in a state of constant flux as a flood of new products [and services] appears every day to supplant older ones that often have been around only a few months themselves.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And he carries on:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Market expansions morph into contractions seemingly overnight. It isn’t that the cycles are getting closer together. The economic expansion of the 1990s was one of the longest in </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">U.S.</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> history. Rather, it is the momentum when they turn that has accelerated. On </span></i><st1:date year="2000" day="13" month="3"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">March 13, 2000</span></i></st1:date><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, the NASDAQ composite index peak at 5132. By April 14, it slumped into 3265, a loss of nearly 40% in one month. In such a volatile environment, the ability to grow, shrink and redeploy assets quickly and intelligently is a critical competence for survival.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And Tichy asserts:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“What has happened so far is just a preview. We have only scratched the surface in using the capabilities of the current technology, not to mention the new technologies and capabilities that are coming on stream every day.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Tichy points out as well:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The earliest uses of most new technologies are at making old processes work better. Once computers came out of the science labs, their first mainstream uses were for such things as automating accounting and inventory controls. These applications were valuable in that they got the bills out faster and let a company make better purchasing and scheduling decisions. But once you consider the activities required for entry and retrieval, some weren’t much more effective in terms of cost or time consumption than doing things the old way.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In understanding scales and accurate senses of proportions and depth, Tichy asserted in 2004:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“The GDP of the developed world – the </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">United States</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, European Community and </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Japan</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> with a total population of about 750 million – is more than $23 trillion. The rest of the world, including China with 1.2 billion people and India with about 1.2 billion people and India with about 1 billion people, lives on less than $3 trillion in GDP. Take the world’s five largest companies, GE, Exxon/Mobil, Microsoft, Pfizer and Wal-Mart – their market capitalization is bigger than the GDP of </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">India</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As Tichy concluded making his case. Brackets are mine. [42]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">METHOD FIRST, TECHNOLOGY SECOND.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In business and competing in the global markets, it is really important to count with optimum technology. Technology is going to be changing and changing almost without limits.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">However, there are many techniques and tools – as well as practices – to discipline the mind to make more judicious and expedient decisions and hence executions. In fact, I will insist that technologies are a function of mind-expansion methods. An exhibit on this is available at <span style="color:black;">http://bit.ly/bGd8kf</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16pt;">TEXTBOOK (BODY OF,)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To further set the stage for this material, the textbook “Einstein in the Boardroom” by Suzanne S. Harrison and Patrick H. Sullivan Sr. may offer some lucid ideas on the “current” state of affairs when they claim: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Humans have been adding to their total knowledge steadily over the centuries, and the amount of knowledge we create is multiplying at an incredible rate. Beginning with the amount of knowledge in the known world at the time of Christ, studies have estimated that the first doubling of that knowledge took place about 1700 A.D. The second doubling occurred around the year 1900. It is estimated today that the world's knowledge base will double again by 2010 and again after that by 2013.”</span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> [37]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In stating some clear fact of applied science progression, President John F. Kennedy’s speech on </span><st1:date year="1962" day="12" month="9"><span style="" lang="EN-US">September 12, 1962</span></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-US"> at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">Race</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">:<i> “Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth. Some 40 of them were “made in the </i></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">United States of America</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">” and they were far more sophisticated and supplied far more knowledge to the people of the world than those of the </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Soviet Union</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> …. The growth of our science and education will be enriched by new knowledge of our universe and environment, by new techniques of learning and mapping and observation, by new tools and computers for industry, medicine, the home as well as the school.” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">[80]<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There are many serious publications, from 2003 to this date, speaking of the entirety of scientific knowledge doubling every five (5) years and sooner. How, then, can one undertake such a gargantuan challenge, through the “Society of Knowledge,” unless it is through the stewardship of the scientific method?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The American Heritage Dictionary’s Introduction (fourth edition, 2000) by Joseph P. Pickett, Executive Director, literally indicates [54]:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">“This Fourth Edition of The American Heritage Dictionary combines the best of traditional making with key innovations that afford new ways of looking at our language… This edition has nearly 10,000 new words and senses that reflect the rapid pace of change in the English language today. Technological innovations in computing and communications along with advances in the sciences have been especially rich sources of development in the lexicon (for example, bit map, domain name, and raster in computing; dark matter, photonics, and yoctosecond in science). Medicine and medical research continue to produce an astonishing array of new terms for chemicals and substances (endostatin, leptin, transfatty acid), for disorders and infectious agents (Asperger’s syndrome, erectile dysfunction, hantavirus), for treatment (cocktail, molecular knife, xenotransplant), and for a variety of creations and discoveries (designer gene, enteric nervous system, microsleep)…. In addition, continuing social change in postindustrial society has given rise to expressions that describe new business practices (buyback, microcredit, reverse mortgage), a changing workplace (face time, job-share, mommy track), and evolving political positions and governmental policies (family leave, term limit, workfare). New sports terms have arisen (clap skate, five hole, skyboard), as have words for new educational practices (charter school, distance learning, homeschool). The names of foods from other cultures continue to be adopted (baba gannouj, garam masala, quesadilla). A host of new cultural developments has produced a host of new compound cords (assisted living, poetry slam, shock jock). And English speakers continue to be an exuberance force in creative coinage (bloviate, newbie, wannabe)…. To ensure accuracy in the coverage of our rapidly changing vocabulary, we have worked closely with distinguished consultants in a wide variety of specialized fields, including anthropology, astronomy, genetics, immunology, philosophy, and physics, to name but a few. We have also gone to great lengths to make our biological and geographic entries as timely as possible. Many new biographical entries have been added, especially in the areas of sports, music, film-making, and literature. To the geographic entries we have added new country names, such as </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Myanmar</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> and the </span></i><st1:place><st1:placetype><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Republic</span></i></st1:placetype><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> of </span></i><st1:placename><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Congo</span></i></st1:placename></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, and newly prominent places such as Kosovo….” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT resolutely insists on trashing itself with an overload of “obsoledge” (obsolete knowledge) [23]. But the erudite, shrewd, pre-cog FUTURE <span style=""> </span>– knowing the decisively better best <span style=""> </span>– stays safe and certain that <i>« what worked best won’t anymore »</i> for the PRESENT besieged by mundane miseries, those miseries propelled by the unkindest humankind without a fail. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">THE FUTURE IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL BESIEGED, BUT BESIEGED OF AND BY BREAKTHROUGHS IN PERPETUITY AND PERPETUALLY IN FLUIDITY RADIANTLY AND IRRADIANTLY.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">If you must insist, you can study the melancholic PAST as a distorted prologue primer to the PRESENT. Nevertheless, not even the loftiest accumulation of all the suboptimal PASTS added to the PRESENT are nothing but an infinitesimal, ineffectual, inconsequential, immaterial, and impious script to the FUTURE. PAST and PRESENT are a bunch of empty, hallow iotas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Said script, I’m not apologetic to state, since I did not birth this Universe, won’t get you to your own FUTURE’s UPSIDES, but might make you institute an emergency landing upon your own existential disruption unless you pay great attention and act upon it urgently and smartly. Got to get beyond cross-pollinated sophistication. Cannot make it by yourself? Can you please just ask for unconventional professional assistance?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the ultimate scrutiny, you must conceive, design, develop, implement, sustain, update, adapt, re-adapt, and re-invent you and your own FUTURES, FUTURE by FUTURE for Life, a Life that will equate to immortality. Taken from the Latin term <i>a posteriori</i>, I will never act aposterioristically. Taken from the Latin term a priori, I will invariably proceed aprioristically.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Unless, in exercising your most conscientious freewill, you wish to be enslaved by an arrogant robot that is: omniscient, as well as self-upgrading, self-enhancing, self-replicating, self-fixing, self-energized, self-renewing, self-reinventing, self-aware, self-ruling, self-transporting, self-commuting (by ground, air, water, outer space, tele-transportation, etc.), and in possession of many other “selfs” that grant it super autonomy. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Those believing that tele-transportation, more popularly known as teleporting, is Sci-Fi might wish to research on the breakthroughs by Los Alamos National Laboratories. Some years ago, as per LANL itself, they made it possible at the “discrete level.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT does not resemble the PAST, nor will the FUTURE ever resemble the PRESENT; up until now the PRESENT has been anecdotal, folkloric, and still impregnated with greater forces and yet more subtle ones than an ever-increasing synergy (i.e., mother of all synergies) of all our known and unknown PASTS combined (over four billion years), while the FUTURE will over-geometrically trans-mutate into infinitely swifter, arrhythmic, inconceivably, amorphously perennially-accelerating (through diversely modulated or not speeds <span style=""> </span>– speeds that stem from some new order of rampant speeding and acceleration of said speeding <span style=""> </span>– ), orderly-chaotized and yet more driven into vividly-immersed and palpable realities than our current yet obsolete PRESENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Why second-guess the FUTURE when you can read, in advance, said FUTURE's hints NOW and exploit them grandiosely, to your advantage? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Annihilate the DOWNSIDES to hijack the UPSIDES, metaphorically and not so metaphorically speaking about leading, managing, and undertaking organizations with a profit end or otherwise. Please remember a golden rule: Regardless of your qualitative and quantitative growth in, say, leadership and success capturing as well as management, every growth will be hallow and harmful if it is not first a growth of ethics and morality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The FUTURE at all times wishes to readily equip the present with novel information. Why? Because the FUTURE considers the PRESENT a failed stated in the realm of time, and does not desire to get implicated with the downsides of a sub-optimal, bitter fellow who declines every helpful knowledge on “emotional intelligence” and “political intelligence”. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Anyway, and by any rational measure, we are in a multi-eon-streaming epoch in which mind-toughness and mind resilience, within kindness and civility, are going to be far more important than the smile of the bus driver spoken of by Daniel Goldman. [29]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As the FUTURE gives the PRESENT a bad score and becomes judgmental on it, the PRESENT flagrantly denies and rejects the current existence of the FUTURE. Some of the signs echoed by the FUTURE into the PRESENT are ubiquitously here in encoded ways.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">As the FUTURE paraphrases Shakespeare’s sentence (fears take away the good with which we could win) and executes it in the practice, the PRESENT feels a great animosity against such a maxim and habit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The forthcoming FUTURE <span style=""> </span>– already scattered among us <span style=""> </span>– has a lot to offer to the PRESENT, namely an invaluable out-of-this-world-and-time source of narrative and numerical data (unexplored repository knowledge waiting to being seized and administered by the PRESENT and its inhabitants). Can you think of anyone more visionary than the king in his class, the FUTURE itself?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT, unfortunately, is somehow anecdotal (suboptimal) while the FUTURE ruthlessly and relentlessly abides by ever-emerging scientific truths. These truths contain vast gold mines for creation, recreation, and super-creation, as well as for devastation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The cultivated brains must root out the endless dangers to capture the benefits, so humankind prevails on Earth and much more beyond it if the Universe (and the embedded Nature of the latter), too, <span style=""> </span>– and its own hyper-dynamics <span style=""> </span>– warrants such a sovereign license.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">For the first time in history, we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past. [28] In the midst of chaos, there is a learning lesson to assimilate. Sometimes the table is served for OVER-LEARNING if the prepared mind is paying huge attention to the nano-granularity of details. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To me uncharted territory is the most splendorous <i>“terra incognita” </i>battlefield, chiefly because of its sheer number of unknown knowns and unknown knowns. As well as immense crises, there territories and incognitos offered an unprecedented learning opportunity that I will never waste, my most thoughtful friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The term singularity entered the popular science culture with the 1993 presentation at NASA-sponsored conference of a seminal paper by </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US">San Diego</span></st1:placename><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">State</span></st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="" lang="EN-US">University</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US"> statistician Vernor Vinge. The abstract of the famous essay is as dauntingly lucid today as it was more than a decade ago: Permalink: http://www.mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.htm<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Professor Vinge indicated it in 1993: <i>“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended …Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers [and some further dangers] are presented…” </i>Brackets are mine.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">I just wonder if the FUTURE is continually stalking on the PRESENT! Perhaps, it is so. One thing can be ascertained, because of the PRESENT’s non-erudite nature, the FUTURE (the over-ruling) is always filibustering the PRESENT (the enslaved).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">These days meaning: these seconds – the totality of all is in the making perpetually. That to be <i>in the making </i>mode ― at this time ― is relentlessly thought of and thought through way in advance. This is a technique to CURRENTLY get your brains over-in-sourced by zillion practiced futuristic scenarios (happily and readily adopted quite early on).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">THE FUTURE WILL HIT THE PRESENT AND ITS RESPECTIVE GROUND RUNNING. All of that as it has been seen up to the present time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This is a hyper-accelerated Eons-streaming Age and ever-increasingly by an above and beyond an over-exponential “many orders of magnitude” factor. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Said “over-exponential factor,” even when multiplied by many orders of magnitudes as in effect it is, the non-linear geometrical and discontinuous growth rate of it is by most people immeasurably underestimated and misunderstood. Besides its intuition is only flagrant counter-intuition.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To me the PAST is more like </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alice</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> (</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Alice</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US">'s Adventures in Wonderland). The PRESENT seems more like Mr. Hyde while the FUTURE appears to be more like the joint conspiracy by Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray. Perhaps, we will need the combined effort by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie to decipher these outright enigmas, namely those stemming from the ever-awaited-but-ever-intruding FUTURE. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We are repeatedly longing for the good sides of the futures impiously forgetting that those futures come along with great responsibilities and challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Progress is the future outcome of a multitude of cascades of “current moments” flowing divergently. The divergence unites seamlessly but not under the ever-suboptimal comprehension of the “naked” human eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is introvert adhocracy as the FUTURE is technocracy in perpetuity. The PRESENT is an illiterate adhocratic one while the FUTURE is the technocratic, “omni mode” savant. The PAST is hollow and inconsequential fossils unverifiable by any “carbon testing” measurement.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To give entrepreneurs a POV quickly, most business plans are (have been for too long) grotesquely ill-conceived indeed in the mean time, as they are written-up and reckoned with the eyes fixed in prehistory. IF IT IS NOT AN ACTUAL SUB-SET OF A MUCH GREATER AND THOROUGH ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, THE FIRM WILL MEET GARGANTUAN CHALLENGES. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Otherwise, there will be great opportunities! One end of the greatest Risk Management Effort (extraneous to insurance, co-insurance, re-insurance, bonds, and those artifices “marketed” by beautifully institutionalized “social engineering,” termed by these God-sent incumbents: “marketing techniques”) is to entertaining the fiscally sound outcomes of a business, literally any business, challenge, or task.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This FUTURE, that throws around its weight through every facet of the PRESENT overbearingly and mercilessly, might be 99.99% INEVITABLE. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Inevitability, in this instance, equates to meaning that it will be a rogue dictator, over-ruling capriciously and solely acting upon its way and capricious taste. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The unavoidable consequences of this FUTURE can be mitigated or at least somehow modulated. Evidently, this FUTURE’s UPSIDES can be, perhaps, seized and even amplified. To meet both requisites, there is one HUGE prerequisite before proceeding any further. The popular wisdom so populated of “one thing at a time” is forbidden by the rulings of the incumbent FUTURES here referred to. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This is not a calling for the “snail-paced” multi-tasking either. You do your DOWNSIDES and UPSIDES simultaneously for Life. Otherwise, one can never proclaim knowing how systems operate (not just computational software, but SYSTEMS per se IN UPPER CASE).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">That is, that the TOTALITY of HUMANKIND has to converge AT UNISON – “on the doubles” <span style=""> </span>– <span style=""> </span>on the most essentials Herculean tasks to do in order to attempt the sustainability of the corresponding civilization as it is now known / perceived. What a big problem to solve that one posed by so-called perception! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In all seriousness, one must decode, de-encrypt the enigmas of the informative and dis-informative yet hallucinated perception. There are way too many kinetic hallucinations and vivid fabrications and pseudo-actual artifices even in the most lucidly sighted perceptions as fluidly recorded, in real time, even in the most prepared of the minds. How can one, in an all-out practiced, de-hallucinate such atrocious perceptions?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Don’t trust perceptions since they’re all flawed and ergo they lie. Dr. Henry Mintzberg indicates that “humans are flawed,” How, could you, subsequently, obtain de-flawed perceptions from flawed hominids? In order to de-flaw perceptions and executions, you must go great distances to begin with, thus as you are still entrenched in so-called “Success 101, the in-between lines 1, line 1, word 1,” out of a socially engineered preface.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Do you feel confused by said hallucinations? Verify this quotation by Henry Miller: <i>“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Atrocious hallucinations embedded in perceptions can be “reality checked” by, for example, following these success tenets in your professional/business theater (frame of reference) of operations: <i>1.- Picture mentally radiantly. 2.- Draw outside the canvas. 3.- Color outside the vectors. 4.- Sketch sinuously. 5.- Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton. 6.- Abduct indiscernible falsifiable convictions. 7.- Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the lucrative genome. 8.- Guillotine the over-weighted status quo. 9.- Learn how to add up -in your own brainy mind - colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions, enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous in-motion shapes, enigmas, phenomena, methods, techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, locus, venues, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes, processes, tweets, “knowledge-laden” hunches, so forth. 10.- Project your wisdom wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis. 11.- Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate ASAP (multiverse teleporting out of a warped / wormed passage) Da Vinci, Bacon, </i></span><st1:city><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Newton</span></i></st1:place></st1:city><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, Goethe, Bonaparte, </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Edison</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">, Franklyn, Einstein and Feynman. 12.- Organize relationships into voluntary associations that are mutually beneficial and accountable for contributing productively to the surrounding community. 13.- Practice the central rule of good strategy, which is to know and remain true to your core business and invest for leadership and R&amp;D+Innovation. 14.- Kaisen, SixSigma, Lean, LeanSigma, “Reliability Engineer” (the latter as solely conceived and developed by Procter &amp; Gamble and </span></i><st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US">Los Alamos</span></i></st1:place><i><span style="" lang="EN-US"> National Laboratories) it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant, a là Einstein Gedaken-motorized judgment. 15.- Provide a road-map / blueprint for drastically compressing (“crashing”) the time’s “reticules” it will take you to get on the top of your tenure, nonetheless of your organizational level. 16.- With the required knowledge and relationships imbedded in organizations, create support for, and carry out transformation initiatives. 17.- Offer a tested pathway for addressing the linked challenges of personal transition and organizational transformation that confront leaders in the first few months in a new tenure. 18.- Foster momentum by creating virtuous cycles that build credibility and by avoiding getting caught in vicious cycles that harm credibility. 19.- Institute coalitions that translate into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable streams of change in personnel and environment. 20.- Mobilize and align the overriding energy of many others in your organization, knowing that the “wisdom of crowds” is upfront and outright rubbish. 21.- Step outside the boundaries of the framework system when seeking a problem solution. 22.- Within zillion tiny bets, raise the ante and capture the documented learning through frenzy execution. 23.- “Moonshine” and “Skunks-work” all, holding in your mind the motion-picture image that, regardless of the relevance of “inputs” and “outputs,” entails the highest relevance is within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT. 24.- Don’t copy Nature, don’t even copy Universe. Just copy the Multiverse. 25.- Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever., 26.- Combine the practical and technological with the mysterious and meaningful.” </span></i><span style="" lang="EN-US">(See definition of “throughput” at [53]). [92]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The function of the “motion picture” image is to early on show before the mind a film of incessantly altering futures. The purpose of the vision is never to show a film of an irrevocably fixed future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Come to think of it thoroughly, throughput is embodied by the Latin term <i>“modus operandi.” </i>Through ages, the concept of mission-critical “throughput” has regularly been represented by said Latin term. Clearly, as eons elapse, in the West we do need a great translation into English.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Through implementation of your organizational, corporate, institutional, entrepreneurial modus operandi, you can shape up your modus vivendi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Possibly, this FUTURE will not have <span style=""> </span>― as per the flawed hopes treasured by all-walks-of-life eyewitnesses <span style=""> </span>– a “natural tendency.” Stated plainly, because it is being envisioned and worked-out preter-naturally, this FUTURE may appear – before our naked eyes <span style=""> </span>– with extreme tendencies and directives that evoke the most extravagant and transhuman mandates. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Can anyone undergo an epiphany in reversal? Long time ago, speaking of my professional experience while testing and experimenting, I have reduced probabilities of having “breakthrough” epiphanies to zero, literally. I had envisioned many “</span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Eureka</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="" lang="EN-US"> times” long time ago and yet in advance. I do have an immense way to go very much to my blessed apostle-hood.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Those greatly appreciated Alemmanic, Germanic Bavarians speak abundantly about “susceptibility to perfectibility.” In my professional quest, which is my own intellectual challenge of mine with me and before my persona, that precept is vastly insufficient.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">One must consider that I toy and play with not only Edisonian Research but also with own self-induced: a) Serendipities, b) Pseudo-serendipities, c) Randomized serendipities, d) Pseudo-randomized serendipities, and e) Pseudo-randomized serendipities. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">For cases a), b), c), and d) I also play a great deal with channeling the “throughput” with 1) directness, 2) indirectness, and 3) a combination of immediately previous 1) and 2). All of the above, in further progression of my testing and experimenting, as well as my fact-finding and fact-disproving research, I subject to a gradation (“gray scale shading,” so to, speak) of i) loose, ii) control, and a combination of immediately previous i) and ii).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The terms “extravagant” and “transhuman,” in this case, apply for even the ultimately leading-edge practitioner of the scientific realm, either within that eminent establishment, or those with an unauthenticated citizenship from the <i>avant-garde</i> renegade-verse. It might be a genuine deal, it might not?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Said dictator will not impersonate anyone. He will be THE maximum MONARCH OF TECHNOCRACY by his own right, Remember? Yes, yes, yes <span style=""> </span>– <span style=""> </span>I know, Technocracy, the gentleman that just espoused a lady with an appalling temperament that loses composure oft, even before the state’s visits by the Holly Pope and her Royal Highness the Queen of England. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Her given name is “Global.” Her surname is “Crises.” That’s the reason why this “power couple” has made Sir Francis Bacon a best-selling icon, <i>“FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR.”</i> Gotten it?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This Monarch will expel every laggard and every one that, notwithstanding his / her most advanced education, worships and disseminates ignorance. This expel will include the transfer of the selected one to a recondite “curved” corner of the Universe or the Multiverse. In speaking about the Multiverse, we must use the following quotation. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1892 – 1964): <i>“I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT carries on superfluously. But the FUTURE is over-impregnated and super-immersed with detailed meaning and significance and with projected transgressive-ly and <i>a là “omni mode”</i> manners, as well as with its manifesting tangibly and yet palpably intangibly pervasive ubiquity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Perpetual innovation is a rogue truth to this PRESENT. The breadth, depth, scope, subtlety, intricacy, and rate of acceleration of this FUTURE’s perpetual innovation will be endless, endless so that is beyond the wildest dreams or nightmares ever conceived by the ultimately noted or most criticized sci-fi writer. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To attribute to this FUTURE’s perpetual innovation a quality of far-fetched will be as well an extreme over-simplification and an existential blunder and the greatest and most public personal acknowledgment of own worshiped supine ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is 1% a function of the PAST and, above all, a 99% function of the FUTURE. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT stifles innovation and fosters rigidity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is inevitably a means to an end. The end is unavoidably the FUTURE.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT always remains polemically unresolved.<span style=""> </span>The FUTURE, as per the long view gained through the Multiverse, in its deepest core is even, stable and organized.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Remember: The FUTURE is eternally pre-clashing and/or clashing the PRESENT, thus continuously shaping and re-shaping the PRESENT to a great extent. The FUTURE is, so to speak and at least, 30% a function of the PRESENT and 70% a function of the FUTURE itself. Percentages are arbitrarily suggested in order to illustrate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is bathed by the ill-presumed permanency and by the quality of being impermanent. The PRESENT is never a snapshot or fixed (static). It is the linkage, superposition, and/or contentious intertwining of many films (multi-fluid dynamics / kinetics). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Its dynamism grants itself, the PRESENT, huge ambitions to becoming the FUTURE while trying to capture the “here and now” mirage, a mirage (a misdemeanor) that does not care losing the sense of ridicule in worldwide football / soccer game through worldwide broadcasting “live.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">There are too many “heres” and a myriad of “nows” without the utter and indispensable acknowledgment that the perennial, trembling gap between the PRESENT and FUTURE generates many creative tensions, regardless if it is harvested or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is at least unceasingly infinite, unless its interrelationship with the FUTURE stops. The FUTURE is never endless unless a great anomaly takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Concerning the PRESENT and specially the FUTURE, the great majority of people failed considering the possibility of anything going wrong, no matter how remote the location or complexity of the implementation environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT and the FUTURE engender tsunamis of CHANGES, principally those changes never thought through. When you altered your work because of competition and/or difficult times, you are CHANGING your professional occupation (organizational strategy). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT has orderly been used to being a land at the dawn of history, that history architect-ed by a bunch of biographies and auto-biographies by the winners and the prevailing ones without considering the side of the losing ones or that of those without partisan positions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT’s duties are appended to the FUTURE. The PRESENT’s rights are appended to the PAST. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">When you reflect and modify you innermost (and that one revolting and commuting within the innermost by using its own proprietary translational and rotational moves), you are CHANGING your essence to some extent. CHANGING your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting realities will be your utmost sensible deed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">When CHANGE is perpetually altering all types of CHANGES, the scientific properties of known and unknown changes get modified, sometimes profoundly and sometimes to an indescribable unknown. This extreme modification is what I have been referring to ‘CHANGED CHANGES.’<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">CHANGED CHANGES make the overwhelming case for “beyond unprecedented” reinvention of humans, lifestyles, organizations, businesses, governments, nongovernmental organizations, societies, and worldwide society. In the process, the extreme makeover is in nothing superficial or similar. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">And the call is an abrupt wake-up alarm to all sorts of leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, government administrators, consultants, advisers, strategists, professors, teachers, students, researchers, and any breathing or cryogenized human being.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Welcome to a new “normal” and a new “abnormal.” In all verisimilitude, there are many new “normals” and “abnormals” (both with scientific normality) being the latter, incidentally, as well within normality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">At the time being, it does not matter anymore where you come from and how this impact your ‘current’ PRESENT. Instead, what is presently relevant for you to envision are the floating, fluxing, cross-railed FUTURES as they climb the treacherous building-block ladder, the ladder of accumulation of opportunities, challenges, and perplexing, but exuberant trade-offs. Neither exuberance nor trade-offs are for the uncultivated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">These trades-offs poise the least thinkable of the unthinkable results, challenging our body (physiology), mind (psychology), and soul (spirit). If you think “exuberant” is a fancy or undesirable term, kindly please wait until you come to meet your FUTURE in person.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To apply, say, for practical leadership credentials will be a nearly, though not impossible, insurmountable enterprise for Life. Leadership to what a) Benchmark, b) Metric, c) Objective, d) Goal, e) Function, f) Purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">How insurmountable? As nearly insurmountable as attempting to hike the Everest cloth-less, equipment-less, ill-prepared, flawed-minded without a crew and the indispensable Sherpa, as you walk and climb toward the mountain’s peak with your back focused on the peak and while your eyes are grabbed by the starting-point locus. You have the right to successfully seek the anti-canonical milestone, Haven't you?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">You can continually walk into the FUTURE backwards to revive the fossilized vestiges of blurred/made-up/artificial “artifices”-driven memories that eat your soul out. A healthy medical prescriptions will dictate: <i>“The patient must always focus on the FUTURE. In the process, and in order to keep its existence, he/she must always REMEMBER THE FUTURE IN ADVANCE.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal flow of increasing creative-tension and controversial discrepancies between the FUTURE and the PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of segments from the “preterit tense” kingdom, a kingdom that is neither awaken nor significant anymore. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Historians and actuaries, in a hurry, will be shouting that they stop being “retrospective” to becoming “prospective” (and creatively so) given the eternally-happening inflicting points of inflections requiring exuberant solving.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Paraphrasing Ray Kurzweil [1], <i>“…as order from FUTURE exponentially increases, designated time exponentially and incessantly speeds up by ever-increasing orders of magnitude.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is just a fluid venue progressively bumped and shocked by the interactions between the unfortunately fossilized PAST and the FUTURE through the inter-mediation of the so-called PRESENT.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Clearly, the genetics of the human beings will have a notable impact on the psychology and physiology of the humans until the FUTURE’s say, want it or not, like it or not. Such a say has a designated “due time.” Due time is not a fixed point but a maze of sinuous lines.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">By all enforced effects, the FUTURE is by any means a representative of three facets. There is the facet of opportunities that we can call UPSIDE RISKS. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Another facet is that of the likelihood of potential disruption. The former impersonates the DOWNSIDE RISK. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thirdly, there’s the facet of blended UPSIDE RISKS with DOWNSIDE RISKS. To really get the OPPORTUNITIES the DOWNSIDE RISKS must be terminated or, at least, mitigated and modulated. Those DOWNSIDE RISKS must be brought under optimum control as per the technical parlance I employ.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Such eternal creative-tension discrepancies / disputes – as imposed by the rogue and nearly ageless interrelationship between the FUTURE and the PRESENT – as the FUTURE wages an all-out “preemptive war” to get the PAST under retirement. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">These eternal creative-tension discrepancies make three major displacements. Firstly, it displaces the PAST to a corner (or quadrant) where vestiges are fossilized but not looked after. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">It must be mentioned that interrelationship between the FUTURE and the PRESENT is intense and will become increasingly more intense, beyond the boldest and lucid imagination without a fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Mother Nature is a great and loving and noble matriarch. The Universe is the oldest and wisest Patriarch, perhaps the elder son of the greatest intelligence of all. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Multiverse (many universes happening and reckoning at the same time, possessing many dimensions) is not only the maximum, all-enabling Patriarch, but also a pervasive Patrician holding the greatest intelligence, wealth, perhaps the elder son of applied omniscience, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and A.I. (artificial intelligence). [41] To see applied omniscience defined by the author, see the respective appendix here included.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Successful and tough, subtle, refined, granular reverse-engineering captures breakthrough innovations for the PRESENT’ and from the FUTURE’s dominion. Reverse-engineering all regardless of its origins, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. Come to think of it and conclude that both a) all and b) everything is primordially and ultimately extraterrestrial.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In the last analysis, everything is terrestrial and exo-terrestrial. This is important to bear in mind. Terrestrial or extraterrestrial, what a fruitless argument as that of the gender of the angels, is ultimately guided by the Multiverse (period). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Earth (so too: Earthlings, always greatly non-terrestrials, and/or Buckminster Fuller’s Earthians) is a function of the Universe. [47]. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The Universe is a function of the Multiverse. Perhaps, the Multiverse is a function of most known and chiefly unknown forms of utmost conscientious awareness and supremely lucid intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Every human is partly earthling and partly extraterrestrial. Why? Because pre bio-genesis and bio-genesis was (at least and as it seems) massively instilled from the outer space (a sub-verse of the Multiverse). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">If extraterrestrial beings existed, they would be, in fact, siblings to current humans. How come? Because there are other genesis different from bio-genesis on Earth, whether within our knowledge or not. A genesis does not only take place only on Earth, but in the whole Universe if it is or not under known and unknown modes/assumptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over, say, leadership and to scientifically steward disruption potential into exploited upsides (to make success seizing crystallize), you need to understand the PRESENT, the FUTURE, and its frenzy interrelationship. In making this effort optimum – <span style=""> </span>and among other prerequisites – <span style=""> </span>we must find out and address two topics. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">One topic has to do with how we reached this PRESENT out of a scattered PAST’s technological accomplishment as we constructed an expanded knowledge repository just by practicing future scenarios through radiant foresight, far-sight, hindsight, insight, and innermost-sight. Admittedly, this is no small task.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The most reasoned foresight and far-sight, <i>sine qua non</i> to recalling the FUTURE, is only a function of innermost-sight outwardly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Another topic is that insidious habit of the FUTURE in seducing the as-of-now PRESENTS while the citizens of such PRESENTS make us agent so many looking-forward changes that set afire the interrelationship between this PRESENT and this FUTURE. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Now we know how we got to “here,” “here” is the hyper-dynamism of flows, in-flows, counter-flows, <i>avant-garde</i> flows, crossed-pollinated flows, point-inflecting flows. “As-of-now” exactly refers to the PRESENT-FUTURE’s own <i>tête-à-tête.</i> [38]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">“Here,” while planted in the PAST, was a bit statistical but never really so. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The so-called “here” is undergoing a total immersion of numberless processes, throughputs, transactions, deeds, etc. “Here” has incessantly been mobilized. “Now” is motorized at a rate that is beyond awe-inspiring. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We just got the “now” about right to this point. To turn savvier on this FUTURE, one must be a genius in his executions (sic), yoctosecond by yoctosecond, which is one septillionth (10^-24) of a second. [48]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Then, s/he has to make the greatest effort of all, that is, to think unthinkably in relation to present forces and pertaining to futuristic trends ― both subtle and dramatic ones as well as those driving and marshaling and enforcing just brute-force dramatic ones ― by means of the practical implementation of scenario planning. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">All of the previous without ignoring the flagrant and less-are-sometimes-more interactions instrumented by said forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Thereinafter, your unthinkable thinking about FUTURES must become more refined, enhanced, exuberant, streamlined, diverse, expanded, disciplined, and extended. In doing so, it never suffices to come up with a three-scenario forecast (not even with the prehistoric “compounded forecast”). <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Subsequently, forecasts must carry with you as many plausible or implausible scenarios (ad infinitum indeed) as resources required never lacking the maximum rigor. Also, no optimum forecast is great enough if it is not accompanied with an arsenal of plans of contingency. Each scenario crafted must have its respective, unambiguous plans of contingency without a fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">All of this is true for humans from the PAST and the PRESENT. Towards a more advanced time <span style=""> </span>― and by means of reverse-engineering with the omniscience perspective <span style=""> </span>― the humans will increasingly be of different constituents and design, as well as different concerning purpose, function, and a combination of purpose and function simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Incidentally: When I say “at once” or “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.” </span>When I say “simultaneously” I always mean exactly this, literally: “All at one time; simultaneously: <span class="illustration">Everything happened at once.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">We will become more “intimate” with our eternally ignored relationship with atomic and sub-atomic particles (not to get me involved in “dark matter” and “divine” or “God’s matter”).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is changelessly unnecessarily delayed or even lost and inattentive because its limits are impermanent and available capabilities are finite. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT never contemplates fast-forward-ly, but in reversal in so adding to its even greater inherent disadvantage. The FUTURE operates beyond the offensive acceleration of “light speed”-plus and nearly without or with zero limits or constraints or borders. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The FUTURE is the Napoleonic Emperor that does everything only under its own terms, exploiting every advantage and disadvantage to its lucrative well-being and omni-ruling.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The FUTURE is accustomed to spying on the PRESENT. How come? The FUTURE is the PRESENT’s debriefing one. The FUTURE is, in many cases a <i>virtuoso</i>, though it, at times, voyeurs the PRESENT. What a horrendous vice! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Such deed will NEVER be tolerated. How do you REHAB the FUTURE? Group therapy? Grouping it with whom, the “crowd of wisdom” folks? Rehabilitating it by which handy means? Like the crowd of wisdom used in extraordinary democracies to have the constituency madly in love – from the instruments of democracy – to vote for a Communist president? <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The only CROWD OF WISDOM that works is that of the most selected ones, the ones that are paying attention, the ones that are paying expensively to entertain the most wonderful thoughts, plans, and roadmaps.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is “child like” wondered by daydreaming promenades. In the mean time, the post-modern modernity is in a rush getting more and more modern by unprecedented “shock and awe” unearthed standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">This <i>criss-cross</i> PRESENT will be reconstituted by the continually <i>crinkum-crankum</i> FUTURE inevitably. [30], [31]. There is going on a <i>terzetto</i> in which the happenings are more or less like this: the PAST (R.I.P), the PRESENT (<i>thé dansant</i>), and the FUTURE (<i>tertium quid</i>). [32], [33], [34]. Clearly, the PAST is getting a fully impeachable CPR by so-called “historians.” <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Earned in his own intellectual right, Thomas Jefferson most cogently stated: <i>“I prefer the dreams of the FUTURE than history.” </i></span><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">Jefferson</span></st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-US">, on his own right, for eternity knew that the FUTURE is un-manipulated from that underperforming venue called “PRESENT.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Who would dare not to appreciate that nanotechnology, biotechnology, bionics, and artificial intelligence making deep and steep inroads? Incidentally, the definition of the omniscience perspective can be revised at <<>> as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US">The PRESENT is a forgetful sardine while the FUTURE is a giant cuttlefish in conspiracy with an octopus and a twenty-four eyes jelly-fish.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span&