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THE ELICITATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THE FUTURE AND T

CONTENTIOUS INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE FUTURE AND T

PRESENT: A RADICAL YET RIGOROUS STRONG-SENSE AND CRITIC

CREATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIE

SUBTLETIES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DRIVING FORCES UNDERGOI

PERPETUAL CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY.

By (c) Copyright 2010 by Andres Agostini

(This article may be reproduced for noncommercial purpos

if it is copied in its entirety, including this notice.)


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Full article as of:

Saturday, April 20, 2010

CONTENTS

1.- Abstract

2.- Article's Introductory Quotations By

Enlightened Minds.

3.- What is Happening Now? How Many Nows

Are There?

4.- Body of the Present Article.

5.- Wrapping Up

6.- Caveat

7.- Annotated Bibliography

8.- Additional Bibliography (Recommended)

9.- About The Author.


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ABSTRACT

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, society, markets, as well as in

regards to emerging science and technology? Why

is this FUTURE different to others? Why is

change so pervasive and frenzy? Why is this

ever-changing rate of change different and what

are the respective consequences and sequels

affecting our lives? How ca we gain a vantage

position and benefit from such futures and

changes?

Many people have huge difficulty understanding

time progression and the strategic surprises

that said progression foster sometimes beyond

creative imagination. It is attributed to Jeff

Immelt, GEs current CEO, the following: post

9/11 is a different world I really hope that


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those not believing such a claim to make a

thorough understanding quickly. This material is

bound to helping in that direction and thereby

offering insights. [42]

Subsequently, in todays 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.

In illustrating the PRESENT and the FUTURE, 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!

In order to understand time progression and its

beyond geometrical non-linear quality, Can we

establish accurate parallelisms with metaphoric


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and not so metaphoric terms to better enlighten

our minds? Why do we humans, marshaling through

such a massive technological progression,

readily wish to subject our existence to

retrogression by choosing not to understand

grave and yet subtle forces that redefine it

all?

In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the

fainthearted. Stated simply, be it known that

the scale of the FUTURES is impossible to

overstate.

The PRESENT is so playful and nave just gaming

in arenas whose sole proprietor is the

monarchical FUTURE.

As the PRESENT carries on just acting serially

(not coping with all simultaneously but just

gradually and in ill randomness), the FUTURE

ascertains every impending deed simultaneously.


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In instituting best analyzes and countering the

DOWNSIDES and leveraging the UPSIDES, the

optimum analyzes are those industriously

pondered: 1)pre facto (before the facts), 2) a

priori (a form ofbefore the facts), and 3)pre-

mortem (much before morten or post-mortem).

Back in 1985, as I was starting to manage large

petroleum risks (refinery, installations, wells,

maritime fleets) including the immense risks

of oil refineries 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). At that moment, and for

some strange reason, someone started speaking to

me about Alvin Tofflers and his game-changing

book Future Shock first published in the

1970s. [25]

From there on having read the book carefully,

I became extremely interested about the rate of


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change, seeing change engendering opportunities

and chaos at the same time and forever. 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. To a great extent and since them,

I literally started a space age race to

understand the maximum about it (sic).

Some forms of change are amazing and must beunderstood at any rate as per my view. For

instance, when things feel less chaotic, it

doesnt mean that there is less chaos. What it

means is that many forms of chaos are greatly

intertwined and, thus, generating mutually-

reinforcing energies (productively and

disruptively), as their collective selectivepressures get aligned by their own combined

valuable orders (usually multiplied by many

orders of magnitude).

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 El Desenlace Del Drama

Mundial (in Spanish, The Final Outcome of

World Drama) authored by Dr. Fernando Chaij in

1956. It is a textbook with the rigor and


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strategic end and theme of a book in the

tradition of George Orwell, though it was fully

based on fact, statistics, and concern, never

driven by the science-fiction genre.

So many years later I came to a great

understanding. 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, your grandmother was a

futurologist. She worked on understanding how

and when things were supposed to unfold.And my

father would always tell us, besides amplifying

our brains thorough education and mind shaping

our personalities, try to foresee every problem

so that you can fix them in advance.

I was raised in a home that was much more

important so solve problems before their

crystallizing. Evidently, post-mortem

fundamental (not quick fixes) was extremely

efficacious too.

Fortunately I am not a prognosticator but I am

always practicing zillion FUTURES in advance

effortlessly. For a client or for a serious


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subject matter of mine, I will be eliciting the

driving forces that will impact positively and

negatively, as well the action plans to exploit

every UPSIDE out of every DOWNSIDE. In the mean

time, there is an Arab adage to share with you:

That who foretells the truth lies even if he is

telling the truth.

By extreme systematically and systemically

cognition, I see trends, their intertwining,

their superposing, their interrelationship, and

their possibilities. I also see advantages and

disadvantages and the fruitfulness of tackling

them when it is called for.

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.

Medical advancements and breakthroughs not only

hold the promise of prolonging life while


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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 and Dr. Terry

Grossman [26], [27], speak habitually of

conquering immortality. Many serious researchers

speak about as live as you pay and use the one-

thousand year not to make afraid people about

immortality becoming a major reality in the near

future. The aim is immortality and not the

thousand years in actuality. In the final

decision, anyone will make its freewill

choice.

Attributed to Gary Hamel, The problem with the

future is that is different (since once is

profound, its scientific properties are beingdramatically changed in real time). If you are

unable to think differently, the Future will

always arrive as a surprise. Parentheses are

mine. [28]

As it is believed to be proclaimed by Samuel

Goldwyn, Only a fool would make predictions

especially about the future.


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Before solving any complex problems, one must

understand the most of them. A cross-function,

multidimensional, scrutinizing womb-to-tom vista

will be beyond vital. In the execution, one must

operate through many contexts and aided by a

cohesive compilation of a great diversity of

perspectives. As I paraphrase Dr. Stephen

Hawking and to pursue the former, my express

perpetual bottom-line for Life is the ensuing:

My goal is simple. It is a complete

understanding of the Universe, why it is as it

is and why it exists at all.

In aligning the idea of understanding the nature

of change and the impacts stemming from said

change, former GE CEO Jack Welch indicated:

Seeing the world the way it is, not the way wehope it will be or wish it to be.He succeeded

Jack Welch and became GE CEO in September 07,

2010. [42]

To further enlighten the present material, Tichy

stated: 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


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clear understanding of where he is starting.

[42]

Agreeing greatly with Dr. Hawkinss, Michael

mentioned, To get to the guts of why things

happen.[42]

There is a mandate in the PRESENT unto the

FUTURE by the forces of the FORTHCOMING TIMES.The solid idea about it requires crafting a new

vision, with its appended strategy, and aligning

people to it. 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 into

lucrative yet sustainable UPSIDES.

In speaking to your intellect, as your intellect

and mine dialogue fluently, 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. In

due time, you will realize that this is a well-

meant calling in which rigor is sine qua non to

the undersigned.


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The PRESENT seems to be having a great deal of

enjoyment by pontificating via words and deeds

mediocrity in exponentially geometric

expressions, 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. On the contrary, the FUTURE is

capable, and in fact it implements, of doing

well to the point we would astound ourselves.

The actual quotation by Thomas Edison indicates:

If we all did the things we are capable of

doing well we would literally astound

ourselves.[44]

As this material will portray, and very much to

the advantage of the subject matter here dealt

with, I carry on all my professional lines of

practice with absolute agreement with Otto

Herman Khan. He actually stated: I'm against

fashionable thinking. I'm against ignorance. I

am against the whole clich of the moment I'm

against sloppy, emotional thinking[43]. In mycase, I am also extremely against superfluous

and inexpensive thinking. Its timely to

remembering that humanitys problems are all

related to ignorance. Very soon enough youll


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find the rigor, as well as the strong sense,

critico-creative approach, by the author.

ARTICLES INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS BY ENLIGHTENED

MINDS

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 ofunderstanding how change can change its own

nature. Bacon, ensuing, makes a legendary

quotation about it.

Sir Francis Bacon: He that will not apply new

remedies must expect new evils, for time is thegreatest innovator.[2]

In seriously rigorous thinking, there is an

important maxim to bear in mind at all times. It

establishes: whatever is now working is already

obsolete. In the case of already-forewarned

scientists, this implies to evolve or to

radicalize the evolution of any tangible or

intangible. When evolution gets radicalized in

applied science, a so-called breakthrough takes

place. Therefore, Einstein makes the case now:


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Albert Einstein: It has become appallingly

obvious that our technology has exceeded ourhumanity We shall require a substantially new

manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

[4]

One of America and the worlds greatest andmost rigorous intellect with a perspective

embedded in the future. He, Buckminster Fuller,

tackles a continuously and increasingly puzzling

problem. As follows:

Richard Buckminster Fuller reminds us of thefollowing: Either war is obsolete, or men are.

[5]

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.


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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: "Its our future

that lays down the law of our today." [6] Its

advantageous to understand what a prominent 120-

year-old corporation such as GE is now

considering. This quote is attributed to GEs

current CEO, Jeff Immelt: I have to lead for

tomorrows world.

We cannot solve problems planted in the past.

But we can solve problems to come (in thefuture). So, former U.S. president Roosevelt

makes a great appeal.

Theodore Roosevelt: "All the resources we need

are in the mind." [7]

It is indispensable to create whatever future

you conceive by yourself. Is there a better tool

than your most cultivated and prepared mind

thinking in unthinkable? See Emersons take:

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes: Man hopes; Genius

creates.[8]


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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

dont even like. Dr. Knowles, greatly into adult

education, has a lucid position that can serve

us as a starting point. Following:

Dr. Malcolm Knowles Ph.D.: The greatest danger

for the survival of the present civilization isneither 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 mans

obsolescence The only hope seems to be an

electroshock program to re-instill to the

current adults the competencies required tofunction adequately under a mode of perpetual

change. This is a profound need the

immeasurable challenge that is presented by

the modern society to adult educator.

Former Federal Supreme Court Justice Sandra

OConnor gave a brief interview in 2009. He is

mobilized into telling people that children and

youngster must be taught both a) Civics and b)

History. Clearly, having seen so much mistaken

leading to grave imprisonment sentences,


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OConnor 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

understand where are we likely to go or not. On

education Dr. Skinner made an important point.

Dr. Burrhus Frederic Skinner Ph.D., Educationis what survives when what has been learned has

been forgotten.[9]

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. That is, they were adding great

complexity while defying that the whole is

greater than the sum of the parts. Evidently,you can add every thinkable complexity to your

products, as long as you greatly upgrade the

scrutinizing vista of the entirety of the

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hardware (amplest meaning), ii) software

(amplest meaning), and iii) humans themselves

(both the manufactures as well as the end

users). Since you cannot use the same knowledge

repository in making the features-adding-to-

your-products effort, youd better pay attention

to Einsteins wise words.

Albert Einstein: "A problem can never be

resolved at the same level of knowledge that wascreated." [10]

Was Thomas Jefferson Americas first futurist?

He proclaimed:

Thomas Jefferson: I prefer the stories of the

future than history. [11]

Speaking of not changing the current state of

affairs, Dr. Kissinger, especially addressed for

people how take to extreme first, foremost and

never do not harm, by stating:

Dr. Henry Kissinger addresses: "An ignored issue

is an invitation to a problem." [12]


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Former U.K. Prime Minister Churchill is

considered by many one of the greatest politicalintellects. He had a great position on the

future, stating:

Sir Winston Churchill: "The empires of the

future are the empires of the mind." [13]

There are many fallacies and ill-conceived

assumptions that even smart people hold dearly

without subjecting said fallacies and

assumptions to great testing to attempt to

disprove them to gain insight what holds true

and what doesnt.

Antonio Machado: The eye is not an eye because

you see it. The eye is the eye because it sees

you.[14]

After the insight by Machado, there isadditional insight along his lines:


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The Panchatantra (body of Eastern philosophical

knowledge): Knowledge is the true organ of

sight, not the eyes.[15]

Seeing through the eyes of applied science is,

in my view, the optimum mode and here lies

further food for thought:

Bernard d'Espagnat: "Even if the Universe is a

little myopic is true that, more than others,

MEN OF SCIENCE ARE ITS EYES." [16]

Drucker was blamed often of self-praising

himself about his capability of foretelling the

future. This is his take:

Peter Drucker: Things that have already

happened but whose consequences have not been

realized [because they were not imagined,

considered, or envisioned by disciplined

foresight and far-sight extending and expanding

both sides of the human brain] Dont confuse

movement with progress. [17] Brackets aremine.


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In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2009, Dr.

Watson explained the vast significance of

science:

Dr. James D. Watson, Ph.D.: "Science gives

society a great sense of decisive freedom."

[18]

There has never been a greater importance to themost sophisticated importance to education,

especially to science, math, and engineering.

The ensuing quotation therefore goes:

Arthur C. Clarke: 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 hadnt been

discovered when he was 20?[19]

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.


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Otto Herman Khan: Clearly, the first task is to

gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of thefuture, one that opens possibilities rather than

forecloses them.[20]

Time and action are invaluable resources. Verify

the ensuing quotation:

General Francisco de Miranda: Time is the

context by means of which action is delivered.

[21]

Unthinkable thinking will increasingly prove

itself the most sensible decision.

Oscar Wilde: "To expect the unexpected shows a

thoroughly modern intellect."

Daring circumstances are for the tough-minded,

resilient, resolved, as well as for those who

combine boldness with prudence.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "There is no chance, no

destiny, no fate that can circumvent, hinder or

control the firm resolve of a determined soul."


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Before challenging situations, dont rule it out

or oversimplify without first trying to research

those situations and begin asking questions.

AN U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL WHO REPEATED IT

FREQUENTLY: "It's better to remain silent and be

thought a fool that open your mouth and remove

any doubt."

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? HOW MANY NOWS ARE

THERE?

Swift and swirling change, peril, complexity,

and newness do not function alone. They are

deeply inter-meshed, interactive, andtransforming, as well as transformational.

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, youd better

have a lucid comprehension of said understanding

for Life. A lucid comprehension will come to you

by the greatest tough and subtle application

of the scientific method, especially through

exact sciences.


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Because of the forces exerted by the FUTURE upon

the PRESENT, this Era streams rising ambiguity,

ambivalence, dichotomy, uncertainty, complexity,

conflict and yet unprecedented possibilities.

Its greatly convenient the luminescent thought

by the prominent German philosopher, Friedrich

Wilhelm Nietzsche "Its our future that lays

down the law of our today."

Its advantageous to understand what a prominent

120-year-old corporation such as GE is now

considering. This quote is attributed to GEs

current CEO, Jeff Immelt: I have to lead for

tomorrows world.

It is for leaders to fall into the trap of

thinking that planning ahead and building for

the FUTURE is an incredible luxury. IT IS NOT.

IT IS AN ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.

But anyone who underestimates the revolutionary

character of todays changes is living a too-

uncontrolled an illusion. Zen Buddhists will

offer you an unprecedented lecture on reality


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being the greatest mental fabrication by the

hominid's mind. The world is being transformed

dramatically and irrevocably, second by second

all of the time.

Juxtapositions of many knowledge dominions will

bring about the greatest scientific convergence

ever in the years ahead. Some people like James

Canton call suggest the forces of weird

science in every sphere in our lives. [22]

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:

Pessimism is a luxury of good times Indifficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling,

self-inflicted death sentence.

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To further set the stage for this material, the

textbook Einstein in the Boardroom by SuzanneS. Harrison and Patrick H. Sullivan Sr. may

offer some lucid ideas on the current state of

affairs when they claim: Humans have been

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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.[37]

There are many serious publications, around 2003

through 2007, speaking of the entirety of

scientific knowledge doubling every five (5)

years. How can one undertake such a gargantuan

challenge, through the Society of Knowledge,

unless it is through the stewardship of thescientific method?

The PRESENT resolutely insists on trashing

itself with an overload of obsoledge (obsolete

knowledge) [23]. But the erudite, shrewd, pre-

cog FUTURE knowing the decisively better best

stays safe and certain that what worked best

wont for the PRESENT besieged by mundane

miseries, those miseries propelled by the

unkindest humankind without a fail. THE FUTURE

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AND BY BREAKTHROUGHS IN PERPETUITY AND

PERPETUALLY IN FLUIDITY RADIANTLY AND

IRRADIANTLY.

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.

Said script, Im not apologetic to state, since

I did not birth this Universe, wont get you toyour own FUTUREs UPSIDES, but might make you

institute an emergency landing upon your own

existential disruption unless you pay great

attention and act upon it urgently. Got to get

beyond cross-pollinated sophistication.

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.


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Unless, in exercising your most conscientious

freewill, you wish to be enslaved by a robotthat 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

huge autonomy.

Those believing that tele-transportation or,

more popularly known as teleporting, might wish

to research on the breakthroughs by Los Alamos

National Laboratories. Some years ago they made

it possible at the discrete level.

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-increasingsynergy (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


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swifter, arrhythmic, inconceivably, amorphously

perennially-accelerating (through diversely

modulated or not speeds speeds that stem from

some new order of rampant speeding and

acceleration of said speeding ), orderly-

chaotized and yet more driven into vividly-

immersed and palpable realities than our current

yet obsolete PRESENT.

Why second-guess the FUTURE when you can read,

in advance, said FUTURE's hints NOW and exploit

them grandiosely, to your advantage? 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.

The FUTURE always wishes to readily equip the

present with novel information. Why? Because the

FUTURE considers the PRESENT a failed stated inthe 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


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political intelligence. Anyway 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]

As the FUTURE gives the PRESENT a bad score and

becomes judgmental on it, the PRESENT flagrantly

denies and rejects the current existence of theFUTURE. The signs echo by the FUTURE into the

PRESENT are ubiquitously here in encoded ways.

As the FUTURE paraphrases Shakespeares sentence

(fears take away the good with which we could

win) and executes it in the practice, thePRESENT feels a great animosity against such a

maxim and habit.

The forthcoming FUTURE already scattered among

us 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


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visionary than the king in his class, the FUTURE

itself?

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. The cultivated brains

must root out the endless dangers to capture thebenefits, so humankind prevails on Earth and

much more beyond it if the Universe (and the

embedded Nature of the latter), too, and its

own hyper-dynamics warrants such a sovereign

license.

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.

To me uncharted territory is the most

splendorous terra incognita territory, chiefly


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because of its sheer number of unknown knowns

and unknown knowns.

The term singularity entered the popular science

culture with the 1993 presentation at NASA-

sponsored conference of a seminal paper by San

Diego State University 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

Professor Vinge indicated it in 1993: 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

presentedBrackets are mine.

I just wonder if the FUTURE is always stalking

on the PRESENT! Perhaps, it is so. One thing can

be ascertained, because of its non-erudite

nature, the FUTURE (the over-ruling) is always

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These days meaning: these seconds the totality

of all is in the making perpetually. That to bein the making 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 (quite early on).

The FUTURE WILL HIT the PRESENT AND ITS

RESPECTIVE GROUND RUNNING. All of that as it has

been seen up to the present time. This is a

hyper-accelerated Eons-streaming Age and ever-

increasingly by an above and beyond an over-

exponential factor. Said over-exponential

factor, even when multiplied by many orders of

magnitudes as in effect it is, the non-linear

geometrical and discontinuous growth of it is by

most people immeasurably underestimated and

misunderstood. Besides its intuition is only

counter-intuition.

To me the PAST is more like Alice (Alice'sAdventures in Wonderland). The PRESENT seems

more like Mr. Hyde while the FUTURE appears to

be more like the joint conspiracy by Dr. Jekyll

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combined effort by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha

Christie to decipher these outright enigmas,

namely those stemming from the always-awaited-

but-ever-intruding FUTURE. We are always longing

for the good sides of the futures impiously

forgetting that those futures come along with

great responsibilities and challenges.

Progress is the future outcome of a multitude of

cascades of current moments flowingdivergently. The divergence unites seamlessly

but not under the comprehension of the naked

human eye.

The PRESENT is introvert adhocracy as the FUTURE

is technocracy in perpetuum. The PRESENT is anilliterate adhocratic one while the FUTURE is

the technocratic, omni mode savant. The PAST

is hollow and inconsequential fossils

unverifiable by any carbon testing.

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


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MEET GARGANTUAN CHALLENGES. 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 engineer, termed by

these God-sent incumbents: marketing

techniques) is to entertaining the fiscally

sound outcomes of a business, literally any

business, challenge, or task.

This FUTURE, that throws around its weight

through every facet of the PRESENT mercilessly,

might be 99.99% INEVITABLE. Inevitability, in

this instance, equates to meaning that it will

be a rogue dictator, over-ruling capriciously

and solely acting upon its way and capricioustaste.

The unavoidable consequences of this FUTURE can

be mitigated or at least somehow modulated.

Evidently, this FUTUREs UPSIDES can be,

perhaps, seized and even amplified. To meet both

requisites, there is one HUGE prerequisite

before proceeding any further. That is, that the

TOTALITY of HUMANKIND has to converge AT UNISON

on the doubles on the most essentials

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sustainability of the corresponding civilization

as it is known / perceived now.

Possibly, this FUTURE will not have as per the

flawed hopes treasured by all-walks-of-life

eyewitnesses a natural tendency. Stated

plainly, because it is being envisioned and

worked-out preternaturally, this FUTURE may

appear before our naked eyes with extreme

tendencies and directives that evoke the mostextravagant and transhuman mandates.

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 avant-garde renegade-verse. It might be

a genuine deal, it might not?

Said dictator will not impersonate anyone. He

will be THE maximum MONARCH OF TECHNOCRACY by

his own right, Remember? Yes, yes, yes I know,

Technocracy, the gentleman that just espoused a

lady with an appalling temperament that loses

composure oft, even before the states visits by

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of England. Her fist name is Global. Her

surname is Crises. Thats the reason why this

power couple has made Sir Francis Bacon a

best-selling icon, FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST

INNOVATOR. Gotten it?

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 transferof the selected one to a recondite corner of the

Universe or Multiverse.

The PRESENT carries on superfluously. But the

FUTURE is over-impregnated and super-immersed

with detailed meaning and significance and withprojected transgressive-ly and a l omni mode

manners, as well as with its manifesting

tangibly and yet palpably intangibly pervasive

ubiquity.

Perpetual innovation is a rogue truth to this

PRESENT. The breadth, depth, scope, subtlety,

intricacy, and rate of acceleration of this

FUTUREs perpetual innovation will be endless,

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nightmare ever conceived by the ultimately noted

or most criticized sci-fi writer.

To attribute to this FUTUREs 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.

The PRESENT is a function of the PAST and, above

all, a function of the FUTURE. The PRESENT is a

function of the PAST only in part.

Remember: The FUTURE is always pre-clashingand/or clashing the PRESENT, thus continuously

shaping and re-shaping the PRESENT to a great

extent. The FUTURE is, so to speak, 30% a

function of the PRESENT and 70% a function of

the FUTURE itself.

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,

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of many films (multi-fluidly dynamics /

kinetics).

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. There are

too many heres and a myriad of nows.

The PRESENT is at least always infinite, unless

its interrelationship with the FUTURE stops. The

FUTURE is never endless unless a great anomaly

takes place.

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.

The PRESENT and the FUTURE engender tsunamis of

CHANGES. When you altered your work because of

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CHANGING your professional occupation

(organizational strategy).

The PRESENT has always been used to being a land

at the dawn of history, that history architected

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 not taking part.

The PRESENTs duties are appended to the FUTURE.

The PRESENTs rights are appended to the PAST.

When you reflect and modify you innermost (and

that one revolting and commuting within theinnermost by using its own proprietary

translational and rotational move), you are

CHANGING your essence to some extent. CHANGING

your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting

realities.

When CHANGE is always altering all types of

CHANGES, the scientific properties of known and

unknown changes get modified, sometimes

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unknown. This extreme modification is what I

have been referring to CHANGED CHANGES.

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. And the call is anabrupt 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.

Welcome to a new normal and a new abnormal.

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

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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, wait until you come to meet

your FUTURE in person.

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?

How insurmountable? As nearly insurmountable as

attempting to hike the Everest cloth-less,

equipment-less, ill-prepared, without a crew and

the indispensable Sherpa, as you walk and climb

toward the mountains 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?

You can always walk into the FUTURE backwards to

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up memories that eat your soul out. A healthy

medical prescriptions will dictate: 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.

You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal

flow of increasing creative-tension

discrepancies between the FUTURE and the

PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of segmentsfrom the preterit tense kingdom, a kingdom

that is neither awaken nor significant anymore.

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.

Paraphrasing Ray Kurzweil [1], as order from

FUTURE exponentially increases, designated time

exponentially and incessantly speeds up by ever-

increasing orders of magnitude. The PRESENT is

just a fluid venue progressively shocked by the

interactions between the unfortunately

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Clearly, the genetics of the human beings will

have a notable impact on the psychology and

physiology of the humans until the FUTUREs say.

Such a say has a designated due time. By all

enforced effects, the FUTURE is always a

representative of three facets. There is the

facet of opportunities that we can call UPSIDE

RISKS.

Another facet is that of the likelihood ofpotential disruption. The former impersonates

the DOWNSIDE RISK. Thirdly, theres 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.

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 a preemptive

war to get the PAST under retirement. These

eternal creative-tension discrepancies make

three major displacements. Firstly, it displaces

the PAST to a corner (or quadrant) where

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Secondly, it displaces the PRESENT closer to the

FUTURE. Thirdly, the FUTURE pulls pervasively

the PRESENT into the FUTUREs intimate spheres

of influence, since this monarch (the FUTURE)

wishes the PRESENT to be the ultimate, loyal

subject of the FUTURE. This wish by the FUTURE

is to this monarchical ruler a sine qua non

without fail.

It must be mentioned that interrelationshipbetween the FUTURE and the PRESENT is intense

and will become increasingly more intense,

beyond the boldest and lucid imagination without

a fail.

Mother Nature is a great and loving and noblematriarch. The Universe is the oldest and wisest

Patriarch, perhaps the elder son of the greatest

intelligence of all. 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

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Successful and tough / subtle / refined /

granular reverse-engineering capturesbreakthrough innovations for the PRESENT and

from the FUTUREs dominion. Reverse-engineering

all regardless of its origins, terrestrial or

extraterrestrial. 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).

The Earth (so too: Earthlings, always greatly

non-terrestrials, and/or Buckminster Fullers

Earthians) is a function of the Universe. The

Universe is a function of the Multiverse.

Perhaps, the Multiverse is a function of most

known and chiefly unknown forms of awareness and

intelligence.

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). If extraterrestrial

beings existed, they would be, in fact, siblings

to current humans. How come? Because there are

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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.

To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over,

say, leadership and to scientifically steward

disruption potential into exploited upsides (to

make success capturing crystallizes), you need

to understand the PRESENT, the FUTURE, and itsfrenzy interrelationship. In making this effort

optimum and among other prerequisites we

must find out and address two topics. One topic

has to do with how we reached this PRESENT out

of a scattered PASTs technological

accomplishment as we constructed an expanded

knowledge repository just by practicing futurescenarios through radiant foresight, far-sight,

hindsight, insight, and innermost-sight.

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. Now we know how we got to here, here

is the hyper-dynamism of flows, in-flows,

counter-flows, avant-garde flows, crossed-


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pollinated flows, point-inflecting flows. As-

of-now exactly refers to the PRESENT-FUTUREs

own tte--tte. [38]

Here, while in the PAST, was a bit statistical

but never really so. The so-called here is

undergoing a total immersion of numberless

processes, throughputs, transactions, deeds,

etc. Here has always been mobilized. Now is

motorized at a rate that is beyond awe-inspiring. 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.

Then, he / she has to make the greatest effortof all, that is, to think unthinkably in

relation to present forces and pertaining to

futuristic trendsboth subtle and dramatic ones

as well as those driving and marshaling and

enforcing just brute-force dramatic onesby

means of the practical implementation of

scenario planning. All of the previous without

ignoring the flagrant and less-are-sometimes-

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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. 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 plan of contingency

without a fail.

All of this is true for humans from the PAST and

the PRESENT. Towards a more advanced time andby means of reverse-engineering with the

omniscience perspective 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.

The PRESENT is always unnecessarily delayed or

even lost and absent-minded because its limits

are impermanent and capabilities are finite. The

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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. 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.

The FUTURE is accustomed to spying on the

PRESENT. How come? The FUTURE is the PRESENTs

debriefing one. The FUTURE is, in many cases a

virtuoso, though it at times voyeurs the

PRESENT. What a horrendous vice! Such deed will

NEVER be tolerated. How do you REHAB the FUTURE?

Group therapy? Grouping it with whom?Rehabilitating it by which means?

The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is

child like wondered by daydreaming. In the

mean time, the post-modern modernity is a rush

getting more and more modern by unprecedented

shock and awe unearthed standards.

This criss-cross PRESENT will be reconstituted

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inevitably. [30], [31]. There is going on a

terzetto in which the happenings are more or

less like this: the PAST (R.I.P), the PRESENT

(th dansant), and the FUTURE (tertium quid).

[32], [33], [34]. Clearly, the PAST is getting a

fully impeachable CPR by so-called historians.

Earned in his own intellectual right, Thomas

Jefferson most lucidly stated: I prefer the

dreams of the FUTURE than history.

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

www.AllSciCzar.blogspot.com as well.

The PRESENT is an absent-minded sardine while

the FUTURE is a giant cuttlefish in conspiracy

with an octopus and a twenty-four eyes jelly-

fish.

Ying and Yang have combined forces of subtle and

dramatic origin. These days the PRESENT is a bit

like a pseudo-harmonized Ying-Yang relationship.

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The PRESENT is besieged by a bunch of

dilettantes and poseurs. [39]. The FUTURE is so to speak la Sir Francis Drake.

The PRESENT is more like Huckleberry Finn while

the FUTURE is perhaps the archetype of Genghis

Khan and his efficacious Mongols.

The stream of as-of-now PRESENTS will become

to some extent one of the forthcoming FUTURES.

At some point ahead, a PRESENT will be

ultimately integrated into a single FUTURE. Such

a FUTURE, though, will reach a point in which

being bio-based or bio-related or not in vivo at

all will be splendidly awaken and active.

Regardless of transhumanity, overhumanity,

superhumanity, nonhumanity and above and

beyond humanity, the hard-core essential is and

will be not being human but becoming and acting

humanely.

The PRESENTS are from appalling and contentious

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FUTURES are only from stringent Mars. Go and ask

about it Dr. John Gray. [40]

The FUTURES are supervening upon the PRESENTS in

combination with the ruthless forces possess by

the own FUTURES.

The PRESENT concerns the animal and vegetable

kingdoms. The FUTURE is only about beyond post-

humanity and its staggering brute-force and

dramatically-subtle INTELLIGENCE.

The PRESENT pertains to pretending discovering

science. The FUTURE is absolute science

dominance and nearly if not thoroughly infinite

power.

On their own earned rights, the PRESENT and the

FUTURE are dogs and darlings, respectively.

The FUTURE has, in many incessant and

efficaciously ways, reminded the present aboutthe instrumentality of Americas primordial and

indigenous civilizations. When you take the

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advised: Whenever you discover youre on a dead

horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

The undisputable scientific maxim goes,

everything now working is obsolete (including

the human being and the human mind) and

therefore is subject to actual perfectibility

for Life. As you will never reach perfection

(even if over-practicing makes over-perfection),

one (and everything) must be increasingly beupgraded forever. Can you now relate better to

Dakota wisdom above?

The PRESENT is always misled and misleading,

treasuring a great promise of deceit. The FUTURE

is eloquently transparent and clear, crippling in advance violators of ethics, morality,

principles, integrity, and dignity.

The PRESENT has its eyes glued to the inside-

outs. The FUTURE is immensely into staring at

its outside-ins.

The PRESENT is a powerless hostage not

interested in any vindication at all. The

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once-true believes, b) its once-true

assumptions, c) its once-true cosmosvision

(weltanschauung), d) its once-true systems of

belief, e) its once-true truisms f) its once-

true common sense, g) its once-true good

luck, so forth. From the human point of view,

these changed changes will be a throwing away of

all the previous maxims.

The PRESENT is pseudo-architected and mobilizedin tearing down achievement. The FUTURE is

always re-architecting itself while massively

out-fostering breakthrough achievements.

Subsequently, the FUTURE will incessantly remain

redefining the totality and the entirety of (i)all and (ii) everything (known, unknown,

improbable, impossible, thinkable, unthinkable,

concerning, and desirable within and outside the

laws of physics, quantum mechanics, and other

science of exactness). I now welcome you,

ladies and gentlemen, to Futurama. [36]

Some serious scientists are making the case of

conquering humans immortality or, at least,

some thousand years of healthy living in the

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insist that we are all made of an eternal

molecule known as DNA. They insist that the DNA

molecule has been with us through billions of

years. Ray Kurzweil proclaims that by the

2030s, the nonbiological portion of our

intelligence will predominate [1]. Get ready

then! Let this brief paragraph to be

introductory to the one ensuing.

Futurama will ultimately and inexorablytransform into Computronium [35], [36], a

technocratic, adhocratic, stratocratic,

plutocratic empire thoroughly immersed in the

overbearingly qualities: techie, nerdish,

brainy, geekish, whose subject matter is the

designated output of: a) humans, b) enhanced

humans, c) pseudo-humans, d) post-humans, e)super-humans (over-men), f) bionicals, g)

superhumanly intelligent beings, h) robots, i)

hybrids, j) trans-humans, k) post-biologicals,

and l) a combination of all of the priors.

While the PRESENT vastly underestimates the

influence of the present-day Internet, the

FUTURE will capture every known and unknown

force to crown itself into ruthless

Computronium. This Royal is not silly dignitary

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the Universe (and Multiverse, the Universes

first-and-foremost father).

In the near FUTUREs (in the zillion flows

between Futurama, the adolescent, and

Computronium, the adult), your dreams,

fantasies, and nightmares will all be literally

out-dreamed and/or out-daydreamed and/or out-

smarted and/or out-shinned and/or out-foretold

by a factor of trillion orders of magnitude.

The FUTURE is bathed, as the PRESENT has already

been hinted, with artifacts that as a whole are

pervasively awakened. These FUTURES are beyond

boundary-less-ness.

The FUTURE is always unfolding before most

peoples absent-minded eyes, independently if

those eyes are appended or not to so-called

prepared minds.

The PRESENT is mostly about hardware (palpably

tangibles). The FUTURE is greatly about software

(palpably and not intangibles with consequences

and sequels both in the physical and vivid

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The hardware era, ever-changing and adapting, is

giving way to the software era.

This colossal eons-streaming Era, regardless of

time locus, is always under ruthless ruling by

the FUTURE.

If you're not remembering the FUTURE is only

because you are ignoring every lesson by thePAST and PRESENT, both a PAST and a PRESENT, in

my view, designated by the express mandates and

designs of the FUTURE.

The PRESENT makes a great number of mistakes

once, twice, thrice and beyond that withoutlearning a single lesson from even the most

recent and gravest mistakes. The FUTURE is into

extracting the critical lessons learned.

Whether or not youre seeking a rival and if the

FUTURE is not conscientiously conceived,

designed, develop and created, the FUTURES will

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In unnoticeable yet transformational movement is

what the FUTUREs status quo has become, a

status quo that is pervasively fluid and

impermanent in perpetuity. On the contrary, the

PRESENTs status quo is erratic, timid,

disorganized, idiotized and consequently banal.

While the FUTURE is extremely concentrated and

focused on every matter in which it has a vested

interest, the PRESENT is over-fragmented greatly Balkanized , thus lacking attention

and excessive in dilution of results.

In dealing with our systems of beliefs, strongly

held assumptions and cosmosvision

(weltanschauung), the FUTURE, into walkinghabitually great lengths, ascertain that the

PRESENT is a thing of the past and the past is a

thing further back to the primordial big bang.

The FUTURE is not in hot pursuit of the PRESENT.

The PRESENT represents one fluid expression by

the ever-more autocratic unstoppable rulings by

demanded the FUTURE. Yet we have now a great

chance to make the most intelligent decision to

lowering the downsides and upping and upgrading

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In matters of actual challenging ones own

intellect, any too much effort to this end isalways too little. We must, therefore, strive

exponentially and creatively forever to capture

now the best from the ever-forthcoming FUTURES.

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) is important. But

now is more important the most pervasive

amplification of the human mind via biological

media only so that we can conceive and develop

our own FUTURES and those incumbent to the

people we care for!

In deciphering the FUTURE now and making the

PRESENT a thing of the PAST, one must learn an

easy lesson: Post-mortem analyzes are

indispensable. Yet pre-mortem analyzes

(especially the qualitatively driven) are beyond

grandiose. In order to institute the latter you

must inquisitively learn to discern, think,

heed, ponder, scale and become furiously

mobilized.

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The German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm

Nietzsche, reiterates that if we change the

present we can change the future, and if we

change the future as well as the way we

proactively and qualitatively envision and

practice it through futuristic scenario methods

we will be changing the present in fact and

taking increasing control over the negative

circumstances that impact us so dramatically. In

actuality, we must change both the PRESENT and

the FUTURE simultaneously. The PRESENTs vest

interest into the FUTURE is too huge not to note

it immediately. Nietzsche, thereby, stated

exactly: "Its our future that lays down the law

of our today."

It now becomes opportune Freeman Dysonsentence: God is what mind becomes when it has

passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

The FUTURE will, nonetheless, unveil the most

ambitious and extravagant hopes crystallized

into bewildering, new full immersion realities.

Thinking Big Picture will never suffice since

this image is fixed. Instead: It is about

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DOWNSIDES your own FUTURES, Who is it going to

do it for you? Really?

CAVEAT

Capturing the benefits of all possibilities

stemming from the future, as well as turning

threats, perils and hazards several of them

existential ones , will largely depend on THETOTALITY OF humankind taking unprecedented

countermeasures in tackling so many global

crises with sustained success.

We must establish universal acceptance of the

greatest axiom of all times pertaining to thesubject matter to be dealt with now. Said axiom

establishes: An ounce of prevention is worth

millions of dollars of cure.In the West we are

unquestionably over-working at the cure while

maximizing the under-working at the

prevention.

Even by Dr. Bertrand Russells proclaim (I know

more people who prefer to die than to think.)

[3], we must anyway create preconditions for

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constructive thinking side of the equation than

in the self-destructing one.

By Copyright 2010 Andres Agostini (*)

www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com

www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

www.twitter.com/SciCzar

Arlington, Virginia, USA + The World + The

Multiverse + Computronium

(*) Andres Agostini is the author of La Medida

de Nuestro Desconocimiento? (In Spanish, The

Magnitude of Our Ignorance?) as it is featured

by Google Scholar at

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22and

res+agostini%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&

as_vis=0

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY


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[15] The Panchatantra (body of Eastern

philosophical knowledge) from Oxford Dictionary

of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.

[16] Bernard d'Espagnat from Oxford Dictionary

of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.

[17] Peter Drucker from Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.

[18] Dr. James D. Watson, Ph.D. as he was

interviewed by Charlie Rose most recently in

year 2009.

[19] Arthur C. Clarke at brainyquotes.com

[20] Otto Herman Khan at brainyquotes.com

[21] General Francisco de Miranda from Oxford

Dictionary of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.

[22] James Canton, Technofutures: How Leading-

Edge Innovations Will Transform Business in the

21st Century by James Canton

(http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-Leading-

Edge-Innovations-Transform-

Business/dp/0976108100/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=book

s&qid=1268366802&sr=1-3 )

[23] Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be

created and how it will change our lives by

Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler (ISBN-10:

038552207X)


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ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY RECOMMENDED

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend

Biology by Ray Kurzweil(http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-

Transcend-

Biology/dp/0143037889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books

&qid=1268365913&sr=1-1

)

Lessons from the Future: Making Sense of a

Blurred World from the World's Leading Futurist

by Stanley M. Davis

(http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Future-Blurred-

Leading-

Futurist/dp/1841120707/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=boo

ks&qid=1268366065&sr=1-12 )

It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of

Information, Biology, and Business by

Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis

(http://www.amazon.com/Its-Alive-Convergence-

Information-


s&qid=1268366347&sr=1-1)


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Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected

Economy by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer

(http://www.amazon.com/Blur-Speed-Change-

Connected-

Economy/dp/0446675334/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=book

s&qid=1268366208&sr=1-22 )

Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis and

Christopher Meyer (http://www.amazon.com/Future-

Wealth-Stanley-M-Davis/dp/1578511941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&q

id=1268366424&sr=1-1 )

The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the

Emerging Mind of the Cosmos by James N. Gardner

and Ray Kurzweil(http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Universe-

Emerging-Mind-

Cosmos/dp/1564149196/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&

qid=1268366513&sr=1-6 )

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation

to Predict Industry Change by Clayton M.

Christensen, Erik A. Roth, and Scott D. Anthony

(http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Whats-Next-

Theories-


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Innovation/dp/1591391857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=bo

oks&qid=1268366646&sr=1-1 )

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin

J. Rees (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Hour-

Scientists-

Warning/dp/0465068634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books

&qid=1268366726&sr=1-1 )

Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will

Transform Business in the 21st Century by James

Canton (http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-

Leading-Edge-Innovations-Transform-


s&qid=1268366802&sr=1-3 )

The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will

Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years by James

Canton (http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Future-

Trends-Reshape-

World/dp/B001OMHSWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&q

id=1268366802&sr=1-1 )

Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by

Edward Cornish (http://www.amazon.com/Futuring-

Exploration-Future-Edward-


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Cornish/dp/0930242610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books

&qid=1268366927&sr=1-1 )

PS: All quotations not otherwise cited are from

the interviews conducted by the author or

personal communications sent to the author.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mr. Andres Agostini is - first and foremost -

a Global Independent Professional Contractor and

a Member of the Advisory Board of ACC Group

Worldwide (New York, Miami, London). He is also

Executive Associate for Global Markets at Omega

Systems Group Incorporated (Arlington, Virginia,

USA). He has 30 years of applied,

professional/empirical experience. He has two

majors on insurance management in the U.S., took

"Mechanical Engineering Technology" in Dawson

College (Montreal, Canada), as well as

Linguistics courses in Queen's University and

Saint Lawrence College (both at Kingston,

Ontario, Canada).

Through his professional life and beyond uppereducation, he became engaged in being

indoctrinated by the most prominent global

organizations, out of the U.S. and the U.K.,

into: a) Management, b) Risk Management, c)

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Reinsurance and many other subject matter

dealing with transformation of: 1)

Organizations, 2) Management, 3) Leadership, 4)

Business, 5) Scenario Method, 6) SystemsMethodologies, 7) Systems Safety, 8) Systems

Security, 9) Systems Reliability and 10)

Professional Futurology.

Beyond implementation of methodologies such as

Total Quality Assurance, Kaisen (including the

Toyota Production System TPS), LeanManufacturing, Six Sigma, Reliability

Engineering and other Multidimensional

approaches, he is the founder and sole

proprietor of the methodology TRANSFORMATIVE

AND INTEGRATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT, based on

Systems Methodology, designed by Andres Agostini

in 2005.

Mr. Agostini is passionate about (a) the FUTURE,

(b) Applied Omniscience Activist,(c) Not

insurance-based Transformative and Integrative

Risk Management,(d)Mind Expansionist

Practitioner. I enjoy teaching a great deal!

AN IDEA WORTH SPREADING AS PER MR. AGOSTINI! Wecan all attempt the best to tackle so many

global crises. Those concern me. However, there

is one global crisis that TAKES PRECEDENT AND

TUTELAGE FROM ANY OTHER CRISIS.


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IM REFERRING TO THE EXTREMELY GRAVE AND

UNIVERSAL, EXISTENTIAL RISK CONCERNING

SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS AGAINST MORALITY,

PRINCIPLES, VALUES, AND ETHICS. Ive given thislife-to-death humankind challenge a womb-to-tomb

reflections for a number of years.

In the mean time, disruption potential and its

corresponding vulnerabilities are staggeringly

compounding into an immeasurable defiance to

Earth in its totality. Ethics AND serious ruleof law AND true justice AND zero calamities

equal some viable chances as we grasp the

convergence of technologies with the omniscience

perspective.

In fact, with a tsunami of new knowledge and

novel skills we might have a change of

prosperity. We must all remember that all

PROBLEMS are because of ignorance, especially

that ignorance deployed by those supposed to

have empowered minds that in actuality worship

their preferred path: own supine ignorance in

extremis!

TALK TO ME ABOUT! We must embrace (i) scienceand technology, (ii) unconventional thinking in

excelsis, (iii) morality and ethics, (iv)

civics, justice, and rigorous law ruling, as

well as compassion, humanity and really enforced

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PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOOD AT AS THIS

QUESTION WAS ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO ME AT

TED.COM! People dont know that Im extremely

good at -with the Omniscience perspective -seeing existential problems/fixes way in advance

and decisively, and solving extremely complex

difficulties that require maximum precision.

MY TED STORY! Ive had and still have the

pleasure to be hired by customers and operate

with partners before the most daring andpressing situations. Fortunately, educated in

the USA, Canada, and Great Britain in academia

and chiefly in profession.

I have a unique way of seeing problems and their

solving. Luckily and very much to my advantage,

I have worked in many tenures and for a whole

array of disparate industries.

Subsequently, I feel quite comfortable in

dealing with a gamut of business issues,

including some undertaken by some supranational

organizations as the World Bank and special

agencies like or related to or aspiring to

instituting best practices by NASA.

I am always ready to take on an even more

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to make crises wait when there is so much

learning to capture in solving said crises.

I dont only do a great deal of researching,

experimenting/testing. But I, too, do huge

studying and studying present evidence

falsifying (a l Sir Karl Popper)to walk

several steps forward towards the optimum

omniscience repository applicable by me and via

others.

I can go from huge structuralism to highly

amorphous and a combination of those two without

losing consistency, congruency, sense of

direction, ambient/environment awareness and

efficacy.

He has addressed major advisory services to top

executives from Fortune-1000 corporations. Some

of its clients include, World Bank, GE, GMAC,

Toyota, Mitsubishi, and Abbot Laboratories.

MY MOST SUCCINCT BIO at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4tNFnLjDyQ

1.-MY EXTENDED PROFESSIONAL PROFILE at

http://www.cybercv.blogspot.com/www.linkedin.com

/in/andresagostini


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2.- MY PERSONALITY TYPE at

http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-

1601247

3.- WORKS, RESOURCES, TESTIMONIALS, AND

REFERENCES at

http://www.ECADEMY.com/account.php?id=408933

4.- IMPORTANT CONTACTS AND WORK PERFORMED at

http://www.PLAXO.com/directory/profile/201864946128/463c7d64/High-Tech/High-Tech+Visionary

5.-IMPORTANT RESOURCES at

http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini

http://bigthink.com/wwwagostiniworksblogspotcom/

http://www.docstoc.com/profile/omnisciczar

http://www.ted.com/profiles/view/id/231424

6.- LEADERSHIP FORUM WITH U.S. MILITARY AND LAW

ENFORCEMENT PRACTITIONERS at

http://www.leadership-online.blogspot.com/

7.- ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE EXTENSIVELY WORKED WITH

at http://www.slideshare.net/guest45906/andys-

andres-agostinis-clients-arlington-virginia-usa-

presentation

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