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THE UNABRIDGED ELICITATION OF KNOWLEDGE By Andres Agostini

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Friday, April 30, 2010 Book Version 0.2 By Andres Agostini

THE UNABRIDGED ELICITATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THE INCESSANTLY

ARRHYTHMIC, ABRUPT, ANTAGONISTIC AND ANARCHISTIC FUTURE, AS WELL

AS THE CONTENTIOUS INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCH FUTURE AND THE

PRESENT: A RADICAL YET RIGOROUS STRONG-SENSE AND CRITICO-

CREATIVE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIES, SUBTLETIES

AND OPPORTUNITIES OF DRIVING FORCES INSTILLING PERPETUAL CHANGE

INTO TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY. By (c) Copyright 2010 by Andres

Agostini All Rights Reserved

(This textbook may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes if

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

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Friday, April 30, 2010 Book Version 0.2 By Andres Agostini

CONTENTS

1.- Objective

2.- Abstract

3.- The Challenge

4.- Introductory Quotations By Enlightened Minds.

5.- What is Happening Now? How Many Nows Are There?

6.- Body of the Present textbook.


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7.- Wrapping Up

8.- Caveat

9.- The Hope

10.- How To Cope With Century Twentieth One!

11.- Appendix, Reflecting on the Education We Immediately Need

12.- Appendix of Suggested Quotations

13.- The Most Thoughtful Statement By Any American President To

Date!

14.- What Ive Given You!

15.- Annotated Bibliography

16.- Additional Bibliography (Recommended)

17.- About The Author.

OBJECTIVE

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.

To utter end of spoken-of change, John Seely Brown and Paul

Duguidmake the following claim:

Technological and social systems shape each other

technologies such as gunpowder, the printing press, the

railroad, the telegraph and the Internet can shape society in

profound ways. But on the other hand, social systems in the

form of governments, the courts and informal organizations,


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social movements, professional networks, local communities,

market institutions and so forth shape, moderate and redirect

the raw power of technologies.[56]

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

(including most universal realpolitik geopolitics), society

(understanding the granularity of details ingrained in matter-

of-fact demographics), markets, as well as in regards to

emerging science and technology?

Alvin Toffler offers some insight: The FUTURE always comes too

fast and in the wrong order [expected by the great majority ofmindful or absent/minded incumbents].Brackets are mine.

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 different differentness and

newness and what are the respective consequences and sequels

unavoidably affecting our lives?

What are the imperatives we must superlative micro- and macro-

manage to cope to sustainably and sufficiently prevail? How can


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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?

Why will this FUTURE unveil the ill and flawed considerations in

greatly hidden, misunderstood and largely socially engineered

fallacies, assumptions, conventions and beliefs? All of this

actually going staggering universal to the least extent (both

geographically and demographically), while DARPA greatly to my

innermost gusto and own entertainment is stubbornly driven to

loving defying (defiance) and disrupting (disruption) in

empirical yet rampant labs to counter and prove wrong

immutable classic laws of physics every day, literally.

DARPA, the entity that spinned off an agency termed NASA and

magnificent Internet, exhibits a most lucid maxim: If youre

not failing frequently, you are not succeeding enough.

If thirty years ago DARPA, Los Alamos National Laboratories,

NASA, National Foundation of Science et al. 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.


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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.

As civilizations we have the right to make extreme blunders as

well as to be held liable for the inherent consequences and

sequels. Isnt there the national security of every country

threatened now?

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?

Many people have huge difficulty understanding time progression

and the strategic surprises that said progression fosters

sometimes beyond creative imagination.

It is attributed to Jeff Immelt, GEs current CEO, the

following: post 9/11 is a different world This tragic

milestone alone will play through times in forceful manners up

to actual time horizons. Reversing or smartly modulating the

consequences will take a gargantuan effort by every constituent

in Earths civilization, whether hungry or fulfilled, whether


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thirsty or satisfied, whether sophisticatedly educated or

illiterate, whether old or young.

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. [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 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?


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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?

In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the fainthearted.

Stated simply, be it known that the scale, scope and magnitudes

of the FUTURES are impossible to overstate.

The PRESENT is so playful and nave just gaming in arenas whose

sole proprietor is the omni-mode ruling monarchical FUTURE.

As the PRESENT carries on just acting serially (not coping with

all simultaneously but just gradual and in ill randomness), the

FUTURE ascertains every impending deed simultaneously.

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 mortem or before post-mortem).

Back in 1985, as I was starting to manage large petroleum risks

along with the risks embodied by some forty thousand employees

with one hundred six thousand direct eligible dependents


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(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 engaged

about the rate of 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 institutingout-of-this-world common sense (non Thomas Paine common

sense).

To a great extent and since them, I literally started a space

age race to understanding the maximum about it (sic).

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 doesnt mean that there is less chaos.

What it means is that many forms of chaos are greatly

intertwined and, thus, generating a) mutually-reinforcing


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energies (productively and disruptively), b) function and

purpose, and c) and self-preservation for said chaotic system,

as their collective selective pressures get aligned by their owncombined 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 Argentinean Dr. Fernando Chaij in 1956.

It is a textbook with the rigor and strategic end and theme of a

book in the tradition of George Orwell, though it was fully

based on fact, statistics, reflection, concern and a

rectification calling, never driven by the science-fiction

genre.

So many years later I came to a great understanding (since Ibelieve in the forces of genotype and phenotype). 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 me, besides amplifying my brain

through 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 in which it was much more important to

solve problems before their crystallizing. Before these


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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 performbetter.

Fortunately, I am not a prognosticator but I am always

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.

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 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 systematic and systemic 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.

These extreme systematically and systemically cognitions, as

expressly exercising both hemispheres of your brain, might land

me or you to pre-cog capabilities.

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,


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and not so paradoxically, too many valuable minds are engaged in

rogue retrogression as well.

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.

Many serious researchers (including Dr. Arie De Geus) 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 immortalityper se

and not the thousand years in actuality. In the final decision,

anyone will make its freewill choice.

There is a valuable thought about the future and its arrival,

attributed to Gary Hamel, The problem with the future is thatis different [since is profound, its scientific properties are

being dramatically changed in real time]. If you are unable to

think differently, the Future will always arrive as a surprise.

Brackets are mine. [28]

In addition and as it is believed to be proclaimed by Samuel

Goldwyn, Only a fool would make predictions especially about

the future.

Before solving any complex problems, one must comprehend the

most of them. A cross-function, multidimensional, scrutinizing

and applicable womb-to-tomb vista will be beyond vital. In the

execution, one must operate through many contexts and aided by a


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cohesive compilation of a great diversity of perspectives

funneled into a monolithic unison.

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 GEs CEO Jack

Welch indicated: Seeing the world the way it is, not the way we

hope it will be or wish it to be. Then, Jeff Immelt succeeded

Jack Welch and became new GEs 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 clear understanding ofwhere he is starting.[42]

Agreeing greatly with Dr. Hawkinss, Welch also mentioned, To

get to the guts of why things happen.[42]

There is a mandate in the PRESENT over the FUTURE by the forces

of the FORTHCOMING TIMES. The solid idea about it requirescrafting a new vision, with its appended (loose/tight and

amorphous but concrete) 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


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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 vigorous rigor is sine qua non to the undersigned.

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.

Even as headlines in hard-copy newspapers supersede the most

creative fantasies embedded in science fiction, many incumbents

just dont get it. Others are really upset because they cannot

understand why the PRESENT does not resemble the nearest PAST.

Others are paralyzed in the analyzes. And others manifest an

anarchistic tendency towards society.

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.


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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.

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: If

we all did the things we are capable of doing well we wouldliterally 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 my case, 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

find the rigor, as well as the strong sense, critico-creative

approach, by this author.

Salvador Dali: Get real; dream the impossible.However, if you

dream the impossible, you must get prepared to work rigorously

and smartly for a serious term of time.

THE CHALLENGE


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(by Paul Valry, 1932)

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[56]

TEXTBOOKS 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 of understanding how change can change its ownnature. 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 the greatest innovator.[2]

In seriously rigorous thinking, there is an important maxim to

bear in mind at all times. It establishes: whatever is nowworking is already obsolete. In the case of already-forewarned

scientists, this implies to evolve or to radicalize the

evolution of any tangibles or intangibles.


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There is a very important scientific truism to bear in mind at

any cost. It ensues, everything is connected to everything

else.

When evolution gets radicalized in applied science, a so-called

breakthrough takes place. Therefore, Einstein makes the case

now:

Albert Einstein: 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.

[4]

One of America and the worlds greatest and most rigorous

intellect with a perspective embedded in the future. He,

Buckminster Fuller, successfully tackles a continuously and

increasingly puzzling problem. As follows:

Richard Buckminster Fuller reminds us of the following: Either

war is obsolete, or men are.[5]

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.

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.


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We cannot solve problems planted in the past. But we can solve

problems to come (in the future). Ergo, 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 unthinkables? Please quit now that

foolish intuitivism la Savannah thinking, since this is a

different temporal locus for certain. See Emersons take:

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes: Man hopes; Genius creates.[8]

In order to work for the matters that make us hope, we mustbluntly 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, a connoted American and greatly

regarded 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 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 mans 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


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need the immeasurable challenge that is presented by the

modern society to adult education.

Former Federal Supreme Court Justice Sandra OConnor gave a

brief interview in 2009. She is mobilized into telling people

that children and youngster must be taught both a) Civics and b)

History. Clearly, having seen so much mistaken people led to

grave imprisonment sentences, 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 comprehend

where are we likely to go or not.

On education and to this end, Dr. Skinner made an important

point.

Dr. Burrhus Frederic Skinner Ph.D., Education is 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


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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 representedby the manufacturers 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 was created." [10]

In the seventeenth century Milton made a point that in my

opinion is valid today. In arguing to free technology, capable

of great good but also of great evil, John Milton (1644)

expressed majestic confidence in our ability to prevail: Lords

and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof we

are, and whereof ye are the governors: a Nation not slow and

dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute toinvent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of

any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.[52]

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 to approach this

maxim: first, foremost and never do not harm, (mostly taken

from the Latin sentence: Primum non nocere) by stating:


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Dr. Henry Kissinger addresses: "An ignored issue is an

invitation to a problem." [12]

Former U.K. Prime Minister Churchill is undisputedly considered

by many one of the greatest political intellects. 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 and

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 acuity of

what holds true and what doesnt.

Antonio Machado: The eye is not an eye because you see it. The

eye is an eye because it sees you.[14]

After the insight by Machado, there is additional thoughtfulness

along these lines:

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 (and actionable

omniscience) is, in my view, the optimum mode and here lies

further food for thought:


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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 on it:

Peter Drucker: Things that have already happened but whose

consequences have not been realized [because they were not

imagined, considered, scrutinized or envisioned by disciplinedforesight and far-sight extending and expanding both sides of

the human brain] Dont confuse movement with progress. [17]

Brackets are mine.

In an interview with Charlie Rose in 2009, Dr. Watson explained

the vast significance of science:

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

society a great sense of decisive freedom." [18]

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 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]


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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.

Otto Herman Khan: Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance

of a more reasonable view of the future, 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 modernintellect."

To be capitalistic in general requires having a good

relationship with machines and even 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:

Mrs. Katharine Hepburn: Nature is what we are put in this

world to rise above.[52]


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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."

How do freedom, security, safety, reliability, reason coalesce

and intertwine?

Sir Karl Popper: We must plan for freedom, and not only forsecurity [and safety and reliability], if for no other reasonthan that only [extremely educated] freedom can make securitysecure [and safety safe and reliability reliable]. Brackets are

mine. [51]

Before challenging situations, dont rule it out or oversimplify

it without first trying to research those situations and begin

asking both silly and exuberant questions lavishly.

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:

Alan Turing (1950): We can only see a short distance ahead, butwe can see plenty there that needs to be done.

AN U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL WHO REPEATED IT FREQUENTLY: "It'sbetter to remain silent and be thought a fool that open yourmouth and remove any doubt."


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WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? HOW MANY NOWS ARE THERE? ARE THOSE

NOWS STILL RELEVANT?

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, youd better believe that this a multi-fold

epoch, always unfolding, in which mutations and transmutations

are taking place across the board.

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 omni-mode and thoroughapplication of the

scientific method, especially through exact sciences aiming

solely to the state-of-the-art generation.

Because of the forces exerted by the FUTURE upon the PRESENT,

this Era streams rising ambiguity, ambivalence, dichotomy,

uncertainty, complexity, conflict, bewilderedness and yet

unprecedented possibilities. Its greatly convenient the

luminescent thought by the prominent German philosopher,


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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 considering since September 2001. 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 FOR LIFE.

But anyone who underestimates the revolutionary character of

todays changes is living a too-uncontrolled an illusion.

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.

Juxtapositions of many knowledge dominions will bring about the

greatest scientific convergence ever in the years ahead. Some

people like James Canton call suggest these forces becoming and

rendering 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:


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Pessimism is a luxury of good times In difficult times,

pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.

TEXTBOOK (BODY OF,)

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:

Humans have been adding to their total knowledge steadily overthe 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, from 2003 to this date,

speaking of the entirety of scientific knowledge doubling every

five (5) years. How, then, can one undertake such a gargantuan

challenge, through the Society of Knowledge, unless it is

through the stewardship of the scientific method?

The American Heritage Dictionarys Introduction (fourth edition,

2000) by Joseph P. Pickett, Executive Director, literally

indicates [54]:

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


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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 developmentin the lexicon (for example, bit map, domain name, and rasterin

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

(Aspergers 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 expressionsthat 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, filmmaking, and

literature. To the geographic entries we have added new country

names, such as Myanmar and the Republic of Congo, and newly

prominent places such as Kosovo.


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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 betterbest stays safe and certain that what worked best wont

anymore for the PRESENT besieged by mundane miseries, those

miseries propelled by the unkindest humankind without a fail.

THE FUTURE IS ALSO AND ABOVE ALL BESIEGED, BUT BESIEGED OF 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 birththis Universe, wont get you to your 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 and smartly. Got to get beyond cross-pollinated

sophistication. Cannot make it by yourself? Can you please just

ask for unconventional professional assistance?

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 a

posteriori, I will never act aposterioristically. Taken from the

Latin term a priori, I will always proceed aprioristically.


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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 huge autonomy.

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.

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 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?


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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 capturingas

well as management, every growth will be hallow and harmful if

it is not first a growth of ethics and morality.

The FUTURE always 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.

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 importantthan 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 the FUTURE. 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, the PRESENT feels a great animosity against such a

maxim and habit.


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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 (unexploredrepository 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?

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 the benefits, 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 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.


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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 presented

Brackets 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 the

PRESENTs non-erudite nature, the FUTURE (the over-ruling) is

always filibustering the PRESENT (the enslaved).

These days meaning: these seconds the totality of all is in

the making perpetually. That to be in the making mode at

this time is relentlessly thought ofand 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).

The FUTURE WILL HIT the PRESENT AND ITS RESPECTIVE GROUND

RUNNING. All of that as it has been seen up to the present time.


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This is a hyper-accelerated Eons-streaming Age and ever-

increasingly by an above and beyond an over-exponential many

orders of magnitude 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 rate of it is by most

people immeasurably underestimated and misunderstood. Besides

its intuition is only flagrant counter-intuition.

To me the PAST is more like Alice (Alice'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 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 flowing divergently. The divergence unites

seamlessly but not under the ever-suboptimal comprehension of

the naked human eye.

The PRESENT is introvert adhocracy as the FUTURE is technocracy

in perpetuum. 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.


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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 eyesfixed 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.

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.

This FUTURE, that throws around its weight through every facet

of the PRESENT overbearingly and 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 capricious taste.

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.

The popular wisdom so populaced of one thing at a time is

forbidden by the rulings of the incumbent FUTURES here referred

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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 systemsoperate (not just computational software, but SYSTEMSper se IN

UPPER CASE).

That is, that the TOTALITY of HUMANKIND has to converge AT

UNISON on the doubles 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!

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,

in the most prepared of the minds. How can one, in an all-out

practiced, de-hallucinate such atrocious perceptions?

Dont trust perceptions since theyre all flawed and ergo they

lie. Dr. Henry Mintzberg indicates that humans are flawed,

How, could you, subsequently, obtain de-flawed perceptions from

flawed hominoids? 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, line 1, word 1, out of a socially engineered

preface.

Do you feel confused by said hallucinations? Verify this

quotation by Henry Miller: Confusion is a word we have invented

for an order which is not understood.


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Atrocious hallucinations embedded in perceptions can be reality

check by, for example, following these success tenets in your

professional/business theater (frame of reference) ofoperations: 1.- Picture mentally radiantly. 2.- Draw outside the

canvas. 3.- Color outside the vectors. 4.- Sketch sinuously. 5.-

Far-sight beyond the minds 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, Newton, Goethe, Bonaparte, Edison, 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 andremain true to your core business and invest for leadership and

R&D+Innovation. 14.- Kaisen, SixSigma, Lean, LeanSigma,

Reliability Engineer (the latter as solely conceived and

developed by Procter & Gamble and Los Alamos National

Laboratories) it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant,

a l Einstein Gedaken-motorized judgment. 15.- Provide a roadmap

/ blueprint for drastically compressing (crashing) the times

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


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that harm credibility. 19.- Institute coalitions that translate

into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable

streams of change in personnel and environment. 20.- Mobilizeand align the overriding energy of many others in your

organization, knowing that the wisdom of crowds is 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.- Moonshineand Skunkwork 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.

(See definition of throughput at [53]).

The function of the motion picture image is to early on show

the mild a film of incessantly altering futures. The purpose of

the vision is never to show a film of an irrevocably fixed

future.

Come to think of it thoroughly, throughput is embodied by theLatin term modus operandi. Through ages, the concept of

mission-critical throughput has always been represented by

said Latin term. Clearly, as eons elapse, in the West we do need

a great translation into English.

Through implementation of your organizational, corporate,

institutional, entrepreneurial modus operandi, you can shape up

your modus vivendi.

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 preter-naturally, this FUTURE may appear before our


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naked eyes with extreme tendencies and directives that evoke

the most extravagant and transhuman mandates.

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 Eureka times long time ago and yet in advance. I do have

an immense way to go very much to my blessed apostlehood.

Those greatly appreciated Alemanic, Germanic Bavarians speak

abundantly about susceptibility to perfectibility. In my

professional quest, which is my own intellectual challenge of

mine with me, that precept is vastly insufficient.

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-randomizedserendipities.

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) of i)

loose, ii) control, and a combination of immediately previous i)

and ii).

The terms extravagant and transhuman, in this case, apply

for even the ultimately leading-edge practitioner of the


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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 the Holly Pope and her Royal

Highness the Queen 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 transfer ofthe selected one to a recondite curved corner of the Universe

or the Multiverse.

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 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, endless so that is beyond the wildest dreams or


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nightmares 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-clashing and/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. Percentages

are arbitrarily suggested in order to illustrate.

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-fluidly dynamics /

kinetics).

Its dynamism grants itself, the PRESENT, huge ambitions to

becoming the FUTURE while trying to capture the here and nowmirage, a mirage (a misdemeanor) that does not care losing the

sense of ridicule in worldwide football / soccer game through

worldwide broadcasting live.


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There are too many heres and a myriad of nows without the

utter and indispensable acknowledgement that the perennial,

trembling gap between the PRESENT and FUTURE generates manycreative tensions, regardless if harvested or not.

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,

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).

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 without

partisan positions.

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 the innermost by using its own


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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 utmostsensible deed.

When CHANGE is always 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.

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 an abrupt wake-up alarm to all sorts of leaders,

managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, governmentadministrators, consultants, advisers, strategists, professors,

teachers, students, researchers, and any breathing or

cryogenized human being.

Welcome to a new normal and a new abnormal. In all

verisimilitude, there are many new normals and abnormal

being the latter, incidentally, as well within normalness.

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


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opportunities, challenges, and perplexing, but exuberant trade-

offs. Neither exuberance nor trade-offs are for the

uncultivated.

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.

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,

flawed-minded without a crew and the indispensable Sherpa, as

you walk and climb toward the mountains peak with your backfocused 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 revive the

fossilized vestiges of blurred/made-up/artificial artifices-

driven 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 IN ADVANCE.

You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal flow of increasing

creative-tension and controversial discrepancies between the


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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. ThoseDOWNSIDE RISKS must be brought under optimum control as per the

technical parlance I employ.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]


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Successful and tough, subtle, refined, granular reverse-

engineering captures breakthrough innovations for the PRESENT

and from the FUTUREs 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.

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 thegender 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. [47].

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.

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 other

genesis different from bio-genesis on Earth, whether within our

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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 seizing crystallize), you

need to understand the PRESENT, the FUTURE, and its frenzy

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 future

scenarios through radiant foresight, far-sight, hindsight,

insight, and innermost-sight.

The most reasoned foresight and far-sight, sine qua non to

recalling the FUTURE, is only a function of 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-pollinated flows, point-inflecting flows. As-of-now exactly

refers to the PRESENT-FUTUREs own tte--tte. [38]

Here, while planted in the PAST, was a bit statistical but

never really so.


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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, which is one septillionth (10-24) of

a second. [48]

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.

All of the previous without ignoring the flagrant and less-are-

sometimes-more interactions instrumented by said forces.

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).

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


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arsenal of plans of contingency. Each scenario crafted must have

its respective, unambiguous plans of contingency without a fail.

All of this is true for humans from the PAST and the PRESENT.

Towards a more advanced time and by 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.

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 Gods matter).

The PRESENT is always unnecessarily delayed or even lost and

inattentive because its limits are impermanent and available

capabilities are finite.

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.

The FUTURE is the Napoleonic Emperor that does everything only

under its own terms, exploiting every advantage and disadvantageto 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


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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, the crowd of wisdom

folks? Rehabilitating it by which handy means?

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.

This criss-cross PRESENT will be reconstituted by the

continually crinkum-crankum FUTURE 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

cogently stated: I prefer the dreams of the FUTURE than

history. Jefferson, on his own right, always knew that the

FUTURE is un-manipulated from that underperforming venue called

PRESENT.

Who would dare not to appreciate that nanotechnology,biotechnology, bionics, and artificial intelligence making deep

and steep inroads? Incidentally, the definition of the

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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.

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. The FUTURE is only about Yang deeds.

The PRESENT is besieged by a bunch of dilettantes andposeurs.

[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 seamlessly.

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-coreessential is and will be not being human but becoming and acting

humanely.


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The PRESENTS are from appalling and contentious

interrelationship between Venus and Mars. The 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. These

kingdoms are subject not to three but four emperors, namely:

liquid, solid, gas, plasma.

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 until the Universes last say.

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 about the instrumentality of Americas

primordial and indigenous civilizations.

When you take the glorious Dakotas tribal wisdom, youll be

advised: Whenever you discover youre on a de

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