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Monday, April 27, 2010 Book Version 0.1

By Andres Agostini

THE UNABRIDGED ELICITATION OF KNOWLEDGE FROM THE

ARRHYTHMIC AND ABRUPT AND ANARCHISTIC FUTURE AND

THE CONTENTIOUS INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCH

FUTURE AND THE PRESENT: A RADICAL YET RIGOROUS

STRONG-SENSE AND CRITICO-CREATIVE APPROACH TOUNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIES, SUBTLETIES AND

OPPORTUNITIES OF DRIVING FORCES UNDERGOING

PERPETUAL CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY.


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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.)

Full textbook as of:

Monday, April 27, 2010 Book Version 0.1 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.


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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 (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?

Why is this FUTURE different to others? Why is

change so pervasive, massive, ubiquitous and

frenzy? Why is this ever-changing rate of change

different and what are the respective

consequences and sequels affecting our lives?

What are the imperatives we must micro- and

macro-manage to cope to sustainably and

sufficiently prevail? How can we gain a vantage


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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

gusto and own entertainment is stubbornly

driven to loving defying (defiance) and

disrupting (disruption) in empirical yet

rampant labs immutable classic laws ofphysics every day, literally. DARPA, the entity

that spinned off an agency termed NASA and

magnificent Internet, exhibits a most lucid


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maxim: If youre not failing frequently, you

are not succeeding enough.

Can we seriously and professionally (that is,

without deceiving) speak of success capturing

WITHOUT STRONGLY REVIEWING FAILURES AND, ABOVE

ALL, 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 modulatingthe consequences will take a gargantuan effort

by every constituent in Earths civilization,

whether hungry or fulfilled, whether thirsty or


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satisfied, whether sophistically 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


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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?

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.


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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).


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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 (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.


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The driving force was the understanding of howsmall and complex things in life can be so

profoundly modified by just instituting out-of-

this-world common sense (non Thomas Paine

common sense).

To a great extent and since them, I literallystarted 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 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 own combined valuable orders

(usually multiplied by many orders of

magnitude).


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When my father gave me his private library, Ifound 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 bookin 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 I believe 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


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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 findings, I wanted

to know why and how each toy and even 383-inch

(eight-cylinder) Chrysler Fury engine operate,

as well as investigating the possibility of

making those artifact perform better.

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 natureand 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.


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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 yourbrain, 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, 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


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prevailing for up to one thousand years while

some, like Dr. Ray Kurzweil Ph.D. and Dr. TerryGrossman M.D. [26], [27], speak habitually of

conquering immortality.

Many serious researchers speak about as living

as you pay and use the one-thousand year

milestone not to make people afraid about

immortality becoming a major reality in the near

future. The aim is immortality per 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 andits arrival, attributed to Gary Hamel, The

problem with the future is that is 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.


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Before solving any complex problems, one mustcomprehend the most of them. A cross-function,

multidimensional, scrutinizing womb-to-tomb

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 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, JeffImmelt succeeded Jack Welch and became new GEs

CEO in September 07, 2010. [42]


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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 of where 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 requires crafting 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 perils that must

be transformed into lucrative yet sustainable

UPSIDES.


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In speaking to your intellect, as your intellectand 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 notresemble the nearest PAST.


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Others are paralyzed in the analyzes. And others

manifest an anarchistic tendency towardssociety.

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.

The PRESENT seems to be having a great deal of

enjoyment by pontificating words and deedssolely 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


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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 my case, I am also extremely against

superfluous and inexpensive thinking. Itstimely 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.

THE CHALLENGE

(by Paul Valry, 1932)


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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

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 own

nature. Bacon, ensuing, makes a legendary

quotation about it.


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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 now working is already

obsolete. In the case of already-forewarned

scientists, this implies to evolve or to

radicalize the evolution of any tangibles or

intangibles.

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]


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One of America and the worlds greatest andmost 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 thefollowing: 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 must bluntly face the matters that

besiege our own existence, the ones elicited by

us and the ones elicited by the people that we


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dont even like. Dr. Knowles, a connoted

American and greatly regarded into adulteducation, 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 allof 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 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 mistakenpeople led to grave imprisonment sentences,

OConnor indicates that many of the people did

not understand the basics about 1) living

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of the Law Of The Land, and 3) understanding

where society and, in her case, the U.S. comesfrom (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., 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 sumof the parts.


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Evidently, you can add every thinkable

complexity to your products, as long as yougreatly upgrade the scrutinizing vista of the

entirety of the systems and the dynamic

interactions among i) hardware (amplest

meaning), ii) software (amplest meaning), and

iii) humans themselves (both the ones

represented by the manufacturers as well as 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


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the governors: a Nation not slow and dull, but

of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute

to invent, 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:

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


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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 saidfallacies 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 philosophicalknowledge): Knowledge is the true organ of

sight, not the eyes.[15]


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Seeing through the eyes of applied science (and

actionable omniscience) is, in my view, theoptimum 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 on it:

Peter Drucker: Things that have alreadyhappened but whose consequences have not been

realized [because they were not imagined,

considered, scrutinized or envisioned by

disciplined foresight and far-sight extending

and expanding both sides of the human brain]

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:


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Dr. James D. Watson, Ph.D.: "Science givessociety 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 beendiscovered 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 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 athoroughly modern intellect."

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:


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Mrs. Katharine Hepburn:Nature is what we areput in this world to rise above.[52]

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, andnot only for security [and safety and

reliability], if for no other reason than thatonly [extremely educated] freedom can makesecurity secure [and safety safe and reliabilityreliable]. Brackets are mine. [51]

Before challenging situations, dont rule it out

or oversimplify it without first trying to

research those situations and begin asking

exuberant questions lavishly.


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AN U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL WHO REPEATED IT

FREQUENTLY: "It's better to remain silent and bethought a fool that open your mouth and removeany 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, youdbetter believe that this a multi-fold epoch,

always unfolding, in which mutations and

transmutations are taking place across the

board.


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You can open up new doors for yourself, see newoptions, 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 thorough application of the scientificmethod, especially through exact sciences.

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, 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


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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, isbeing 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 becoming and

rendering weird science in every sphere in our

lives. [22]


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With each passing day, change quickens everyday

at a faster-and-faster, nonlinear, discontinuousand counter-intuitive rate. In the mean time,

Evelyn Lindner reminds us of the following:

Pessimism is a luxury of good times In

difficult times, pessimism is a self-fulfilling,

self-inflicted death sentence.

TEXTBOOK

To further set the stage for this material, the

textbook Einstein in the Boardroomby 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 over the centuries, and the

amount of knowledge we create is multiplying at

an incredible rate. Beginning with the amount of

knowledge in the known world at the time of

Christ, studies have estimated that the first

doubling of that knowledge took place about 1700 A.D.. The second doubling occurred around the

year 1900. It is estimated today that the

world's knowledge base will double again by 2010

and again after that by 2013.[37]


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There are many serious publications, from 2003to 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 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 ofdevelopment in the lexicon (for example, bit

map, domain name, and rasterin computing; dark

matter, photonics, and yoctosecondin science).

Medicine and medical research continue to


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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 expressions that describe new business

practices (buyback, microcredit, reverse

mortgage), a changing workplace (face time, job-

share, mommy track), and evolving political

positions and governmental policies (family

leave, term limit, workfare). New sports terms

have arisen (clap skate, five hole, skyboard),as have words for new educational practices

(charter school, distance learning, homeschool).

The names of foods from other cultures continue

to be adopted (baba gannouj, garam masala,

quesadilla). A host of new cultural developments

has produced a host of new compound cords

(assisted living,poetry slam, shock jock). And

English speakers continue to be an exuberance

force in creative coinage (bloviate, newbie,

wannabe). To ensure accuracy in the coverage of

our rapidly changing vocabulary, we have worked

closely with distinguished consultants in a wide


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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.

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 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.


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If you must insist, you can study the

melancholic PAST as a distorted prologue primerto 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 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.


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Taken from the Latin term a posteriori, I will

never act aposterioristically. Taken from theLatin term a priori, I will always proceed

aprioristically.

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,


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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

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. Please remember a golden rule:


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Regardless of your qualitative and quantitative

growth in, say, leadership and success capturing

as well as management, every growth will be

hallow and harmful if it is not first a growth

of ethics and morality.

The FUTURE always wishes to readily equip thepresent 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 important

than the smile of the bus driver spoken of by

Daniel Goldman. [29]

As the FUTURE gives the PRESENT a bad score and

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denies and rejects the current existence of the

FUTURE. The signs echo by the FUTURE into thePRESENT 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.

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 andadministered 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.


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The cultivated brains must root out the endless

dangers to capture the benefits, so humankindprevails 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.

The term singularity entered the popular science

culture with the 1993 presentation at NASA-

sponsored conference of a seminal paper by San


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Diego State University statistician Vernor

Vinge. The abstract of the famous essay is asdauntingly 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 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

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in advance. This is a technique to CURRENTLY get

your brains over-in-sourced by zillion practicedfuturistic 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.

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

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be more like the joint conspiracy by Dr. Jekyll

and Dorian Gray. Perhaps, we will need thecombined 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.

To give entrepreneurs a POV quickly, most

business plans are (have been for too long)

grotesquely ill-conceived indeed in the mean


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time, as they are written-up and reckoned with

the eyes fixed in prehistory. IF IT IS NOT ANACTUAL 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.


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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 to.

This is not a calling for the snail-paced

multi-tasking either. You do your DOWNSIDES and

UPSIDES simultaneously for Life. Otherwise, one

can never proclaim knowing how systems operate

(not just computational software, but SYSTEMS

per se IN UPPER CASE).

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!


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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?

Atrocious hallucinations embedded in perceptions

can be reality check by, for example,

following these success tenets in your

professional/business theater (frame of

reference) of operations: 1.- Picture mentallyradiantly. 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,


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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 and remain 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 reticulesit 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


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initiatives. 17.- Offer a tested pathway for

addressing the linked challenges of personaltransition and organizational transformation

that confront leaders in the first few months in

a new tenure. 18.- Foster momentum by creating

virtuous cycles that build credibility and by

avoiding getting caught in vicious cycles that

harm credibility. 19.- Institute coalitions that

translate into swifter organizational

adjustments to the inevitable streams of change

in personnel and environment. 20.- Mobilize and

align the overriding energy of many others in

your organization, knowing that the wisdom of

crowds is 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 thedocumented learning through frenzy execution.

23.- Moonshineand Skunkworkall, 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]).

Possibly, this FUTURE will not have as per the

flawed hopes treasured by all-walks-of-life

eyewitnesses a natural tendency. Stated


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plainly, because it is being envisioned and

worked-out preter-naturally, this FUTURE mayappear before our 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-

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Pseudo-randomized serendipities, and e) Pseudo-

randomized serendipities.

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, inthis 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


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lady with an appalling temperament that loses

composure oft, even before the states visits bythe 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 transferof the 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.


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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

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

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The PRESENT is bathed by the ill-presumed

permanency and by the quality of beingimpermanent. 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 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 without the utter and indispensable

acknowledgement that the perennial, trembling

gap between the PRESENT and FUTURE generates

many creative 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

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Concerning the PRESENT and specially the FUTURE,

the great majority of people failed consideringthe 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 architectedby 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

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innermost by using its own proprietary

translational and rotational moves), you areCHANGING your essence to some extent. CHANGING

your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting

realities will be your utmost sensible 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, government administrators,

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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 opportunities, challenges, andperplexing, 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.


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To apply, say, for practical leadership

credentials will be a nearly, though notimpossible, 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 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

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.


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You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal

flow of increasing creative-tension andcontroversial discrepancies between the FUTURE

and the PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of

segments from the preterit tense kingdom, a

kingdom that is neither awaken nor significant

anymore.

Historians and actuaries, in a hurry, will be

shouting that they stop being retrospective to

becoming prospective (and creatively so) given

the eternally-happening inflicting points of

inflections requiring exuberant solving.

Paraphrasing Ray Kurzweil [1], as order fromFUTURE exponentially increases, designated time

exponentially and incessantly speeds up by ever-

increasing orders of magnitude.

The PRESENT is just a fluid venue progressively

bumped and shocked by the interactions between

the unfortunately fossilized PAST and the FUTURE

through the intermediation of the so-called

PRESENT.


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Clearly, the genetics of the human beings will

have a notable impact on the psychology andphysiology of the humans until the FUTUREs say,

wanted or not, like it or not. 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 of

potential 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. Those DOWNSIDE RISKS must be brought

under optimum control as per the technical

parlance I employ.

Such eternal creative-tension discrepancies /

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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]

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 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. [47].


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The Universe is a function of the Multiverse.

Perhaps, the Multiverse is a function of mostknown 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 differentfrom bio-genesis on Earth, whether within our

knowledge or not. A genesis does not only take

place only on Earth, but in the whole Universe

if it is or not under known and unknown

modes/assumptions.

To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over,

say, leadership and to scientifically steward

disruption potential into exploited upsides (to

make success capturing crystallize), you need to

understand the PRESENT, the FUTURE, and its


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frenzy interrelationship. In making this effort

optimum and among other prerequisites wemust 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


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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.

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


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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 arsenal of plans of

contingency. Each scenario crafted must have its

respective, unambiguous plans of contingency

without a fail.


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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.

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 oreven 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.


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The FUTURE is the Napoleonic Emperor that does

everything only under its own terms, exploitingevery 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 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


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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 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 thatnanotechnology, biotechnology, bionics, and

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