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THE ELICITATION OF THE FUTURE AND ITS CONTENTIOUS

INTERRELATIONSHIP WITH THE PRESENT: A RADICAL YET
RIGOROUS STRONG-SENSE AND CRITICO-CREATIVE APPROACH TO
UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIES, SUBTLETIES, AND
OPPORTUNITIES OF DRIVING FORCES UNDERGOING PERPETUAL
CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY.

By (c) Copyright 2010 by Andres Agostini

(This article may be reproduced for noncommercial

purposes if it is copied in its entirety, including
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Friday, April 16, 2010

CONTENTS

1.- Abstract

2.- Article's Introductory Quotations By Enlightened

Minds.

3.- What is Happening Now? How Many “Nows” Are There?

4.- Body of the Present Article.

5.- Wrapping Up

6.- Caveat
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7.- Annotated Bibliography

8.- Additional Bibliography (Recommended)

9.- About The Author.

ABSTRACT

Is the future a function of the present or is the

present a function of the future? What do present and
future mean in practicality regarding business,
profession, education, politics, society, markets, as
well as in regards to emerging science and technology?
Why is this FUTURE different to others?

In illustrating the PRESENT and the FUTURE, What rolls

are they respectively impersonating to gain us further
insight? This is a strong-sense and critico-creative
discernment to understanding the ever-challenging
nature and anatomy of change in every facet of Human
Life!

In order to understand time progression and its beyond

geometrical non-linear quality, Can we establish
accurate parallelisms with metaphoric and not so
metaphoric terms to better enlighten our minds? Why do
we humans, marshaling such a massive technological
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progression, readily wish to subject our existence to

retrogression?

In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the

fainthearted. Be it known that the scale of the FUTURES
is impossible to overstate.

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 (never a posteriori),
and 3) pre-mortem (never post-mortem).

Back in 1985, as I was starting to manage large

petroleum risks (refinery, installations, wells,
maritime fleets) – including the immense risks of oil
refinery number one and oil refinery number three as
per worldwide standards, I started asking myself how I
could foresee some of that potential disruption
(clearly, early and for future cases). At that moment,
and for some strange reason, someone started speaking
to me about Alvin Toffler’s and his game-changing book
“Future Shock” first published in the 1970s. [25]
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From there on – having read the book carefully, I

became extremely interested about the rate of change,
seeing change engendering opportunities and chaos at
once and forever. To a great extent and since them, I
started a “space age” race to understand the maximum
about it.

When my father gave me his private library, I found a

book that he never mentioned to me and which he read in
1957, way before my coming into existence, titled “El
Desenlace Del Drama Mundial” (in Spanish, “The Final
Outcome of World Drama”) authored by Dr. Fernando
Chaij in 1956. It was 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 and
concern, never driven by the science-fiction genre.

So many years later I came to a great understanding. My

maternal grandmother was really a busy lady, not only
in making her home and being entrepreneurial, but my
mother – not fully aware of the subtle scope of my
profession – one day told me, “your grandmother was a
futurologist. She worked on understanding how and when
things were supposed to unfold.” And my father would
always tell of us, besides of amplifying thorough
education and mind shaping our personalities, “try to
foresee every problem so that you can fix them in
advance.”

Fortunately I am not a prognosticator but I do practice

zillion “FUTURES.” For a client or for a serious
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subject matter of mine, I will be eliciting the driving

forces that will impact positively and negatively, as
well the action plans to exploit every UPSIDE out of
every DOWNSIDE. In the mean time, there is an Arab
adage to share with you: “That who foretells the truth
lies even if he is telling the truth.”

By extreme systematically and systemically cognition, I

see trends, their intertwining, their superposing,
their interrelationship, and their possibilities.

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.

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 and Dr. Terry
Grossman [26], [27], speak habitually of conquering
immortality.

In speaking to your intellect, as your intellect and

mine dialogue, I will appeal to very legitimate
narrative resources to offer you an accurate insight
and perspective of how the scientific properties of
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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 and that rigor is sine qua non
to the undersigned.

ARTICLE’S INTRODUCTORY QUOTATIONS BY ENLIGHTENED MINDS

Sir Francis Bacon: “He that will not apply new remedies
must expect new evils, for time is the greatest
innovator.” [2]

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]

Richard Buckminster Fuller reminds us of the following:

“Either war is obsolete, or men are.” [5]

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: "It’s our future that lays

down the law of our today." [6]

Theodore Roosevelt: "All the resources we need are in

the mind." [7]
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Ralph Waldo Emerson writes: “Man hopes; Genius

creates.” [8]

Dr. Malcolm Knowles: “The greatest danger for the

survival of the present civilization is neither atomic
war, nor environmental pollution, nor the exploitation
of natural resources, and nor present crises. The
underlying cause to all of the above is the
acceleration of man’s obsolescence … The only hope
seems to be an electroshock program to re-instill to
the current 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
educator.”

Dr. Burrhus Frederic Skinner, ˝Education is what

survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten.” [9]

Albert Einstein: "A problem can never be resolved at

the same level of knowledge that was created." [10]

Thomas Jefferson: ̋I prefer the stories of the future

than history.˝ [11]

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

invitation to a problem." [12]
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Sir Winston Churchill: "The empires of the future are

the empires of the mind." [13]

Antonio Machado: “The eye is not an eye because you see

it. The eye is the eye because it sees you.” [14]

The Panchatantra (body of Eastern philosophical

knowledge): “Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not
the eyes.” [15]

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

myopic is true that, more than others, MEN OF SCIENCE
ARE ITS EYES." [16]

Peter Drucker: “Things that have already happened but

whose consequences have not been realized [because they
were not imagined, considered, or envisioned by
disciplined foresight and far-sight extending and
expanding both sides of the human brain] … Don’t
confuse movement with progress.” [17]

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

great sense of decisive freedom." [18]

Arthur C. Clarke: “We have to abandon the idea that

schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it
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be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20

are no longer true at 40 – and half of the things he
knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?”
[19]

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]

General Francisco de Miranda: “Time is the context by

means of which action is delivered.” [21]

Oscar Wilde: "To expect the unexpected shows a

thoroughly modern intellect."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: "There is no chance, no destiny,

no fate that can circumvent, hinder or control the firm
resolve of a determined soul."

AN U.S. AIR FORCE COLONEL WHO REPEATED IT FREQUENTLY:

"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool
that open your mouth and remove any doubt."

WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW? HOW MANY “NOWS” ARE THERE?

Swift and swirling change, peril, complexity, and

newness do not function alone. They are deeply inter-
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meshed, interactive, and transforming, as well as

transformational.

You can open up new doors for yourself, see new

options, minimize significant mistakes, and maximize
potential understandings. In order for you to act
decisively successful, you’d better have a lucid
comprehension of said understanding for Life. A lucid
comprehension will come to you by the greatest – tough
and subtle – application of the scientific method,
especially through exact sciences.

Because of the forces exerted by the FUTURE upon the

PRESENT, this Era streams rising ambiguity,
ambivalence, dichotomy, uncertainty, complexity,
conflict and yet unprecedented possibilities. It’s
greatly convenient the luminescent thought by the
prominent German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm
Nietzsche "It’s our future that lays down the law of
our today."

But anyone who underestimates the revolutionary

character of today’s changes is living a too-
uncontrolled an illusion. Zen Buddhists will offer you
an unprecedented lecture on reality being the greatest
mental “fabrication” by the hominid's mind. The world
is being transformed dramatically and irrevocably,
second by second all of the time.
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Juxtapositions of many knowledge dominions will bring

about the greatest scientific convergence ever in the
years ahead. Some people like James Canton call
suggests the forces of “weird science” in every sphere
in our lives. [22]

With each passing day, change quickens everyday at a

faster-and-faster, nonlinear, discontinuous and
counter-intuitive rate. In the mean time, Evelyn
Lindner reminds us of the following: “Pessimism is a
luxury of good times … In difficult times, pessimism is
a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”

ARTICLE

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 of 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, around 2003

through 2007, speaking of the entirety of scientific
knowledge doubling every five (5) years. How can one
undertake such a gargantuan challenge, through the
“Society of Knowledge,” unless it is through the
stewardship of the scientific method?

The PRESENT resolutely insists on trashing itself with

an overload of “obsoledge” (obsolete knowledge)[23].
But the erudite, shrewd, pre-cog FUTURE – knowing the
decisively better best – stays safe and certain that
«what worked best won’t» 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, I’m not apologetic to state, since I did

not birth this Universe, won’t get you to your own
FUTURE’s UPSIDES, but might make you institute an
emergency landing upon your own existential disruption
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unless you pay great attention and act upon it

urgently. Got to get beyond cross-pollinated
sophistication.

In the ultimate scrutiny, you must conceive, design,

develop, implement, sustain, update, adapt, re-adapt,
and re-invent you and your own FUTURES, FUTURE by
FUTURE for Life, a Life that will equate to
immortality.

Unless, in exercising your most conscientious freewill,

you wish to be enslaved by a 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 or, more

popularly known as teleporting, might wish to research
on the breakthroughs by Los Alamos National
Laboratories. Some years ago they made it possible at
the “discrete level.”

The PRESENT does not resemble the PAST, nor will the
FUTURE ever resemble the PRESENT; up until now the
PRESENT has been anecdotal, folkloric, and still
impregnated with greater forces and yet more subtle
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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? Annihilate the
DOWNSIDES to hijack the UPSIDES, metaphorically and not
so metaphorically speaking about leading, managing, and
undertaking organizations with a profit end or
otherwise.

The FUTURE always wishes to readily equip the present

with novel information. Why? Because the FUTURE
considers the PRESENT a failed stated 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 we are in a multi-eon-
streaming epoch in which mind-toughness and mind
resilience, within kindness and civility, are going to
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be far more important than the smile of the bus driver

spoken of by Daniel Goldman. [29]

As the FUTURE gives the PRESENT a bad score and becomes

judgmental on it, the PRESENT flagrantly denies and
rejects the current existence of the FUTURE. The signs
echo by the FUTURE into the PRESENT are ubiquitously
here in encoded ways.

As the FUTURE paraphrases Shakespeare’s sentence (fears

take away the good with which we could win) and
executes it in the practice, the PRESENT feels a great
animosity against such a maxim and habit.

The forthcoming FUTURE – already scattered among us –

has a lot to offer to the PRESENT, namely an invaluable
out-of-this-world-and-time source of narrative and
numerical data (unexplored repository knowledge waiting
to being seized and administered by the PRESENT and its
inhabitants). Can you think of anyone more 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
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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.

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
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[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 its 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 of
and thought through way in advance. This is a technique
to CURRENTLY get your brains over-in-sourced by zillion
practiced futuristic scenarios (quite early on).

The FUTURE WILL HIT the PRESENT AND ITS RESPECTIVE

GROUND, RUNNING. All of that as it has been seen up to
the present time. This is a hyper-accelerated Eons-
streaming Age and ever-increasingly by an above and
beyond an over-exponential factor. Said ‘over-
exponential factor,’ even when multiplied by many
orders of magnitudes as in effect it is, the non-linear
geometrical and discontinuous growth of it is by most
people immeasurably underestimated and misunderstood.
Besides its intuition is only counter-intuition.

To me the PAST is more like Alice (Alice's Adventures

in Wonderland). The PRESENT seems more like Mr. Hyde
while the FUTURE appears to be more like the joint
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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
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.”

Most business plans are grotesquely ill-conceived

indeed in the mean time, as they are written-up and
reckoned with the eyes fixed in prehistory. IF IT IS
NOT AN ACTUAL SUB-SET OF A MUCH GREATER AND THOROUGH
ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, THE FIRM WILL MEET
GARGANTUAN CHALLENGES. Otherwise, there will be great
opportunities! One end of the greatest Risk Management
Effort (extraneous to insurance, co-insurance, re-
insurance, bonds, and those artifices “marketed” by
beautifully institutionalized “social engineer”, termed
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by these God-sent incumbents: “marketing techniques”)

is to entertaining the fiscally sound outcomes of a
business, literally any business, challenge, or task.

This FUTURE, that throws around its weight through

every facet of the PRESENT mercilessly, might be 99.99%
INEVITABLE. Inevitability, in this instance, equates to
meaning that it will be a rogue dictator, over-ruling
capriciously and solely acting upon its way and
capricious taste.

The unavoidable consequences of this FUTURE can be

mitigated or at least somehow modulated. Evidently,
this FUTURE’s UPSIDES can be, perhaps, seized and even
amplified. To meet both requisites, there is one HUGE
prerequisite before proceeding any further. 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 known / perceived now.

Possibly, this FUTURE will not have — as per the flawed

hopes treasured by all-walks-of-life eyewitnesses — a
“natural tendency.” Stated plainly, because it is being
envisioned and worked-out preternaturally, this FUTURE
may appear – before our naked eyes – with extreme
tendencies and directives that evoke the most
extravagant and transhuman mandates.
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The terms “extravagant” and “transhuman,” in this case,

apply for even the ultimately leading-edge practitioner
of the scientific realm, either within that eminent
establishment, or those with an unauthenticated
citizenship from the avant-garde renegade-verse. It
might be a genuine deal, it might not?

Said dictator will not impersonate anyone. He will be

THE maximum MONARCH OF TECHNOCRACY by his own right,
Remember? Yes, yes, yes — I know, Technocracy, the
gentleman that just espoused a lady with an appalling
temperament that loses composure oft, even before the
state’s visits by the Holly Pope and her Royal Highness
the Queen of England. Her fist name is “Global.” Her
surname is “Crises.” That’s the reason why this “power
couple” has made Sir Francis Bacon a best-selling icon,
“FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR.” Gotten it?

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 là ‘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 FUTURE’s perpetual
innovation will be endless, endless so that is beyond
the wildest dream or nightmare ever conceived by the
ultimately noted or most criticized sci-fi writer.
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To attribute to this FUTURE’s perpetual innovation a

quality of far-fetched will be as well an extreme over-
simplification and an existential blunder and the
greatest and most public personal acknowledgment of own
worshiped supine ignorance.

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.

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 now’ mirage, a mirage (a misdemeanor) that
does not care losing the sense of ridicule in worldwide
football / soccer game through worldwide broadcasting
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“live.” There are too many ‘heres’ and a myriad of

‘nows.’

The PRESENT is at least always infinite, unless its

interrelationship with the FUTURE stops. The FUTURE is
never endless unless a great anomaly takes place.

Concerning the PRESENT and specially the FUTURE, the

great majority of people failed considering the
possibility of anything going wrong, no matter how
remote the location or complexity of the implementation
environment.

The PRESENT and the FUTURE engender tsunamis of

CHANGES. When you altered your work because of
competition and/or difficult times, you are CHANGING
your professional occupation (organizational strategy).

When you reflect and modify you innermost (and that one
revolting and commuting within the innermost by using
its own proprietary translational and rotational move),
you are CHANGING your essence to some extent. CHANGING
your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting
realities.

When CHANGE is always altering all types of CHANGES,

the scientific properties of known and unknown changes
get modified, sometimes profoundly and sometimes to an
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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, consultants,
advisers, strategists, professors, teachers, students,
researchers, and any breathing or cryogenized human
being.

Welcome to a new “normal” and a new “abnormal.”

At the time being, it does not matter anymore where you

come from and how this impact your ‘current’ PRESENT.
Instead, what is presently relevant for you to envision
are the floating, fluxing, cross-railed FUTURES as they
climb the treacherous building-block ladder, the ladder
of accumulation of opportunities, challenges, and
perplexing, but exuberant trade-offs.

These trades-offs poise the least thinkable of the

unthinkable results, challenging our body (physiology),
mind (psychology), and soul (spirit). If you think
“exuberant” is a fancy or undesirable term, wait until
you come to meet your FUTURE in person.
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To apply, say, for practical leadership credentials

will be a nearly, though not impossible, insurmountable
enterprise for Life. Leadership to what a) Benchmark,
b) Metric, c) Objective, d) Goal, e) Function, f)
Purpose?

How insurmountable? As nearly insurmountable as

attempting to hike the Everest cloth-less, equipment-
less, ill-prepared, without a crew and the
indispensable Sherpa, as you walk and climb toward the
mountain’s peak with your back focused on the peak and
while your eyes are grabbed by the starting-point
locus. You have the right to successfully seek the
anti-canonical milestone, Haven't you?

You can always walk into the FUTURE backwards to revive

the fossilized vestiges of blurred/made-up memories
that eat your soul out. A healthy medical prescriptions
will dictate: “The patient must always focus on the
FUTURE. In the process, and in order to keep its
existence, he/she must always REMEMBER THE FUTURE.”

You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal flow of
increasing creative-tension discrepancies between the
FUTURE and the PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of
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
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“prospective” (and creatively so) given the eternally-

happening inflicting points of inflections.

Paraphrasing Ray Kurzweil [1], as order from FUTURE

exponentially increases, designated time exponentially
and incessantly speeds up by ever-increasing orders of
magnitude. The PRESENT is just a fluid venue
progressively shocked by the interactions between the
unfortunately fossilized PAST and the FUTURE.

Clearly, the genetics of the human beings will have a

notable impact on the psychology and physiology of the
humans until the FUTURE’s say. 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, there’s the facet of blended UPSIDE RISKS with
DOWNSIDE RISKS. To really get the OPPORTUNITIES the
DOWNSIDE RISKS must be terminated or, at least,
mitigated and modulated.

Such eternal creative-tension discrepancies / disputes

— as imposed by the rogue and nearly ageless
interrelationship between the FUTURE and the PRESENT —
as the FUTURE wages a “preemptive war” to get the PAST
under retirement. These eternal creative-tension
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discrepancies make three major displacements. Firstly,

it displaces the PAST to a corner (or quadrant) where
vestiges are fossilized but not looked after.

Secondly, it displaces the PRESENT closer to the

FUTURE. Thirdly, the FUTURE pulls pervasively the
PRESENT into the FUTURE’s intimate spheres of
influence, since this monarch (the FUTURE) wishes the
PRESENT to be the ultimate, loyal subject of the
FUTURE. This wish by the FUTURE is to this monarchical
ruler a sine qua non without fail.

It must be mentioned that 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 at
once 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]

Successful and tough / subtle / refined / granular

reverse-engineering captures breakthrough innovations
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for the PRESENT’ and from the FUTURE’s dominion.

Reverse-engineering all regardless of its origins,
terrestrial or extraterrestrial. In the last analysis,
everything is terrestrial and exo-terrestrial. This is
important to bear in mind. Terrestrial or
extraterrestrial, what a fruitless argument as that of
the gender of the angels, is ultimately guided by the
Multiverse (period). The Earth (so too: Earthlings,
always greatly non-terrestrials, and/or Buckminster
Fuller’s Earthians) is a function of the Universe. The
Universe is a function of the Multiverse. Perhaps, the
Multiverse is a function of most known and chiefly
unknown forms of awareness and intelligence.

Every human is partly earthling and partly

extraterrestrial. Why? Because pre-bio-genesis and bio-
genesis was (at least and as it seems) massively
instilled from the outer space (a sub-verse of the
Multiverse). If extraterrestrial beings existed, they
would be, in fact, siblings to current humans. How
come? Because there are other genesis different from
bio-genesis on Earth, whether within our knowledge or
not. A genesis does not only take place only on Earth,
but in the whole Universe if it is or not under known
and unknown modes/assumptions.

To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over, say,

leadership and to scientifically steward disruption
potential into exploited upsides (to make success
capturing crystallizes), you need to understand the
PRESENT, the FUTURE, and its frenzy interrelationship.
In making this effort optimum — and among other
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prerequisites — we must find out and address two

topics. One topic has to do with how we reached this
PRESENT out of a scattered PAST’s technological
accomplishment as we constructed an expanded knowledge
repository just by practicing future scenarios through
radiant foresight, far-sight, hindsight, insight, and
innermost-sight.

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-FUTURE’s own tête-à-tête.
[38]

‘Here’, while in the PAST, was a bit statistical but

never really so. The so-called ‘here’ is undergoing a
total immersion of numberless processes, throughputs,
transactions, deeds, etc. ‘Here’ has always been
mobilized. ‘Now’ is motorized at a rate that is beyond
awe-inspiring. We just got the ‘now’ about right to
this point. To turn savvier on this FUTURE, one must be
a genius in his executions (sic), yoctosecond by
yoctosecond.

Then, he / she has to make the greatest effort of all,

that is, to think unthinkably in relation to present
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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. Subsequently, forecasts
must carry with you as many plausible or implausible
scenarios (ad infinitum indeed) as resources required
never lacking the maximum rigor. Also, no optimum
forecast is great enough if it is not accompanied with
an arsenal of plans of contingency. Each scenario
crafted must have its respective, unambiguous plan of
contingency without a fail.

All of this is true for humans from the PAST and the
PRESENT. Towards a more advanced time — 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 at once.

The PRESENT is always unnecessarily delayed or even

lost and absent-minded because its limits are
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impermanent and 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 disadvantage
to its lucrative well-being and omni-ruling.

The FUTURE is accustomed to spying on the PRESENT. How

come? The FUTURE is the PRESENT’s debriefing one. The
FUTURE is, in many cases a virtuoso, though it at times
voyeurs the PRESENT. What a horrendous vice! Such deed
will NEVER be tolerated. How do you REHAB the FUTURE?
Group therapy? Grouping it with whom? Rehabilitating it
by which means?

The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is ‘child

like’ wondered by daydreaming. In the mean time, the
post-modern modernity is a rush getting more and more
modern by unprecedented ‘shock and awe’ unearthed
standards.

This criss-cross PRESENT will be reconstituted 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 (thé dansant), and the FUTURE
(tertium quid). [32], [33], [34]. Clearly, the PAST is
getting a fully impeachable CPR by so-called
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“historians.” Earned in his own intellectual right,

Thomas Jefferson most lucidly stated: “I prefer the
dreams of the FUTURE than history.”

Who would dare not to appreciate that nanotechnology,

biotechnology, bionics, and artificial intelligence
making deep and steep inroads? Incidentally, the
definition of the omniscience perspective can be
revised at www.AllSciCzar.blogspot.com as well.

The PRESENT is an absent-minded sardine while the

FUTURE is a giant cuttlefish in conspiracy with an
octopus and a twenty-four eyes jelly-fish.

Ying and Yang have combined forces of subtle and

dramatic origin. These days the PRESENT is a bit like a
pseudo-harmonized Ying-Yang relationship. The FUTURE is
only about Yang deeds.

The PRESENT is besieged by a bunch of dilettantes and

poseurs. [39]. The FUTURE is — so to speak — à 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.
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The stream of as-of-now PRESENTS will become — to some

extent — one of the forthcoming FUTURES. At some point
ahead, a PRESENT will be ultimately integrated into a
single FUTURE. Such a FUTURE, though, will reach a
point in which being bio-based or bio-related or not in
vivo at all will be splendidly awaken and active.

Regardless of transhumanity, overhumanity,

superhumanity, nonhumanity and ‘above and beyond’
humanity, the hard-core essential is and will be not
being human but becoming and acting humanely.

The PRESENTS are from appalling and contentious

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.

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.
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The PRESENT is always misled and misleading, treasuring

a great promise of deceit. The FUTURE is eloquently
transparent and clear, crippling — in advance —
violators of ethics, morality, principles, integrity,
and dignity.

The PRESENT is a powerless hostage not interested in

any vindication at all. The PRESENT is sick and ailing
because of: a) its once-true believes, b) its once-true
assumptions, c) its once-true cosmosvision
(weltanschauung), d) its once-true systems of belief,
e) its once-true truisms f) its once-true “common
sense,” g) its once-true “good luck,” so forth. From
the human point of view, these changed changes will be
a throwing away of all the previous maxims.

Subsequently, the FUTURE will incessantly remain

redefining the totality and the entirety of (i) all and
(ii) everything (known, unknown, improbable,
impossible, thinkable, unthinkable, concerning, and
desirable within and outside the laws of physics,
quantum mechanics, and other science of “exactness”). I
now welcome you, ladies and gentlemen, to ‘Futurama’.
[36]

Some serious scientists are making the case of

conquering humans’ immortality or, at least, some
thousand years of healthy living in the upcoming years.
In making their case, they insist that we are all made
of an eternal molecule known as DNA. They insist that
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the DNA molecule has been with us through billions of

years. Ray Kurzweil proclaims that “by the 2030s, the
nonbiological portion of our intelligence will
predominate” [1]. Get ready then! Let this brief
paragraph to be introductory to the one ensuing.

Futurama will ultimately and inexorably transform into

Computronium [35], [36], a technocratic, adhocratic,
stratocratic, plutocratic empire thoroughly immersed in
the overbearingly qualities: techie, nerdish, brainy,
geekish, whose subject matter is the designated output
of: a) humans, b) enhanced humans, c) pseudo-humans, d)
post-humans, e) super-humans (over-men), f) bionicals,
g) superhumanly intelligent beings, h) robots, i)
hybrids, j) trans-humans, k) post-biologicals, and l) a
combination of all of the priors.

While the PRESENT vastly underestimates the influence

of the present-day Internet, the FUTURE will capture
every known and unknown force to crown itself into
ruthless Computronium. This Royal is not silly
dignitary as one will see him out-compute the entirety
of the Universe (and Multiverse, the Universe’s first-
and-foremost father).

In the near FUTURE’s (in the zillion flows between

Futurama, the adolescent, and Computronium, the adult),
your dreams, fantasies, and nightmares will all be
literally out-dreamed and/or out-daydreamed and/or out-
smarted and/or out-shinned and/or out-foretold by a
factor of trillion orders of magnitude.
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The FUTURE is bathed, as the PRESENT has already been

hinted, with artifacts that as a whole are pervasively
awakened. These FUTURES are beyond boundary-less-ness.

The FUTURE is always unfolding before most people’s

absent-minded eyes, independently if those eyes are
appended or not to “prepared minds.”

If you're not remembering the FUTURE is only because

you are ignoring every lesson by the PAST and PRESENT,
both a PAST and a PRESENT, in my view, designated by
the express mandates and designs of the FUTURE.

In dealing with our systems of beliefs, strongly held

assumptions and cosmosvision (weltanschauung), the
FUTURE, into walking habitually great lengths,
ascertain that the PRESENT is a thing of the past and
the past is a thing further back to the primordial big
bang.

The FUTURE is not in hot pursuit of the PRESENT. The

PRESENT represents one fluid expression by the ever-
more autocratic unstoppable rulings by the FUTURE. Yet
we have now a great chance to make the most intelligent
decision to lowering the downsides and upping and
upgrading the upsides.
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In matters of actual challenging one’s own intellect,

any ‘too much’ effort to this end is always ‘too
little.’ We must, therefore, strive exponentially and
creatively forever to capture now the best from the
ever-forthcoming FUTURES.

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

more important the most pervasive amplification of the
human mind via biological media only so that we can
conceive and develop our own FUTURES and those
incumbent to the people we care for!

In deciphering the FUTURE now and making the PRESENT a

“thing of the PAST,” one must learn an easy lesson:
Post-mortem analyzes are indispensable. Yet pre-mortem
analyzes (especially the qualitatively driven) are
beyond grandiose. In order to institute the latter you
must inquisitively learn to discern, think, heed,
ponder, scale and become furiously mobilized.

WRAPPING UP

The German philosopher, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche,

reiterates that if we change the present we can change
the future, and if we change the future – as well as
the way we proactively and qualitatively envision and
practice it through futuristic scenario methods – we
will be changing the present in fact and taking
increasing control over the negative circumstances that
impact us so dramatically. In actuality, we must change
both the PRESENT and the FUTURE simultaneously at once.
The PRESENT’s vest interest into the FUTURE is too huge
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not to note it immediately. Nietzsche, thereby, stated

exactly: "It’s our future that lays down the law of our
today."

It now becomes opportune Freeman Dyson’ sentence: “God

is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the
scale of our comprehension.”

The FUTURE will, nonetheless, unveil the most ambitious

and extravagant hopes crystallized into bewildering,
new full immersion realities.

CAVEAT

Capturing the benefits of all possibilities stemming

from the future, as well as turning threats, perils and
hazards – several of them existential ones –, will
largely depend on THE TOTALITY OF humankind taking
unprecedented countermeasures in tackling so many
global crises with sustained success.

We must establish universal acceptance of the greatest

axiom of all times pertaining to the subject matter to
be dealt with now. Said axiom establishes: “An ounce
of prevention is worth millions of dollars of cure.” In
the West we are unquestionably over-working at the
“cure” while maximizing the under-working at the
“prevention.”
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Even by Dr. Bertrand Russell’s proclaim (“I know more

people who prefer to die than to think.”) [3], we must
anyway create preconditions for everyone to get more
immersed into the constructive thinking side of the
equation than in the self-destructing one.

By © Copyright 2010 Andres Agostini (*)

www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com

www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

www.twitter.com/SciCzar

Arlington, Virginia, USA + The World + The Multiverse +

Computronium

(*) Andres Agostini is the author of “¿La Medida de

Nuestro Desconocimiento?” (In Spanish, “The Magnitude
of Our Ignorance?”) as it is featured by Google Scholar
at
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22andres+ago
stini%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

[1] Ray Kurzweil’s quotations at ‹brainyquotes.com›

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[2] Sir Francis Bacon (Oxford Dictionary of Quotations,

ISBN: 0-19-866185-1

[3] Dr. Bertrand Russell (Oxford Dictionary of

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

[4] Dr. Albert Einstein (Oxford Dictionary of

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

[5] Dr. Buckminster Fuller (Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1) and at
‹brainyquotes.com›

[6] Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1) and at
‹brainyquotes.com›

[7] Theodore Roosevelt at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[8] Ralph Waldo Emerson at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[9] Dr. Malcolm Knowles at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[10] Dr. Albert Einstein at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[11] Thomas Jefferson at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[12] Dr. Henry Kissinger at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[13] Sir Winston Churchill at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[14] Antonio Machado from Oxford Dictionary of

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

[15] The Panchatantra (body of Eastern philosophical

knowledge) from Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ISBN:
0-19-866185-1.

[16] Bernard d'Espagnat from Oxford Dictionary of

Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.
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[17] Peter Drucker from Oxford Dictionary of

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

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

by Charlie Rose most recently in year 2009.

[19] Arthur C. Clarke at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[20] Otto Herman Khan at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[21] General Francisco de Miranda from Oxford

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

[22] James Canton, Technofutures: How Leading-Edge

Innovations Will Transform Business in the 21st Century
by James Canton (http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-
Leading-Edge-Innovations-Transform-
Business/dp/0976108100/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1
268366802&sr=1-3 )

[23] Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and

how it will change our lives by Alvin Toffler and Heidi
Toffler (ISBN-10: 038552207X)

[24] Ella Wheeler Wilcox at ‹brainyquotes.com›

[25] Future Shock by Alvin Toffler (ISBN-10:

0553277375)

[26] Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever

by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman ( ISBN-10:
0140282025 )

[27] Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by

Ray Kurzweil Ph.D. and Terry Grossman M.D. (ISBN-10:
1605299561)
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[28] “Leading the Revolution” by Gary Hamel (ISBN-10:

1591391466) imagination rather than forward from our
past.

[29] Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman ( ISBN-

10: 055309503X )

[30] Criss-cross at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861122-

6

[31] Crinkum-crankum at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-

861122-6

[32] Terzetto at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861122-6

[33] Thé dansant at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861122-

6

[34] Tertium quid at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-

861122-6

[35] Computronium at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computronium

[36] Futurama at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama

[37] “Einstein in the Boardroom” by Suzanne S. Harrison

and Patrick H. Sullivan Sr. (ISBN-10: 0-471-70332-X

[38] Tête-à-tête at Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861122-

6

[39] Dilettantes and poseurs at Oxford Dictionary ISBN

0-19-861122-6

[40] Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving

Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope
Differently with Stress by John Gray.
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[41] Multiverse at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY RECOMMENDED

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil (http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-
Near-Humans-Transcend-
Biology/dp/0143037889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12
68365913&sr=1-1

Lessons from the Future: Making Sense of a Blurred

World from the World's Leading Futurist by Stanley M.
Davis (http://www.amazon.com/Lessons-Future-Blurred-
Leading-
Futurist/dp/1841120707/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=
1268366065&sr=1-12 )

It's Alive: The Coming Convergence of Information,

Biology, and Business by Christopher Meyer and Stan
Davis (http://www.amazon.com/Its-Alive-Convergence-
Information-
Business/dp/1400046416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1
268366347&sr=1-1)

Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy by

Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
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(http://www.amazon.com/Blur-Speed-Change-Connected-
Economy/dp/0446675334/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1
268366208&sr=1-22 )

Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis and Christopher Meyer

(http://www.amazon.com/Future-Wealth-Stanley-M-
Davis/dp/1578511941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268
366424&sr=1-1 )

The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind

of the Cosmos by James N. Gardner and Ray Kurzweil
(http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Universe-Emerging-
Mind-
Cosmos/dp/1564149196/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=126
8366513&sr=1-6 )

Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to

Predict Industry Change by Clayton M. Christensen, Erik
A. Roth, and Scott D. Anthony
(http://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Whats-Next-Theories-
Innovation/dp/1591391857/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid
=1268366646&sr=1-1 )

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin J. Rees

(http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Hour-Scientists-
Warning/dp/0465068634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12
68366726&sr=1-1 )
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Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will

Transform Business in the 21st Century by James Canton
(http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-Leading-Edge-
Innovations-Transform-
Business/dp/0976108100/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1
268366802&sr=1-3 )

The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will Reshape

the World in the Next 20 Years by James Canton
(http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Future-Trends-Reshape-
World/dp/B001OMHSWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268
366802&sr=1-1 )

Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by Edward

Cornish (http://www.amazon.com/Futuring-Exploration-
Future-Edward-
Cornish/dp/0930242610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12
68366927&sr=1-1 )

PS: All quotations not otherwise cited are from the

interviews conducted by the author or personal
communications sent to the author.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mr. Andres Agostini is - first and foremost - a

Global Independent Professional Contractor and a Member
of the Advisory Board of ACC Group Worldwide (New York,
Miami, London). He is also Executive Associate for
Global Markets at Omega Systems Group Incorporated
(Arlington, Virginia, USA). He has 30 years of applied,
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professional/empirical experience. He has two majors on

insurance management in the U.S., took "Mechanical
Engineering Technology" in Dawson College (Montreal,
Canada), as well as Linguistics courses in Queen's
University and Saint Lawrence College (both at
Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

Through his professional life and beyond upper

education, he became engaged in being indoctrinated by
the most prominent global organizations, out of the
U.S. and the U.K., into: a) Management, b) Risk
Management, c) Group Employee Benefits, d) Insurance,
e) Reinsurance and many other subject matter dealing
with transformation of: 1) Organizations, 2)
Management, 3) Leadership, 4) Business, 5) Scenario
Method, 6) Systems Methodologies, 7) Systems Safety, 8)
Systems Security, 9) Systems Reliability and 10)
Professional Futurology.

Beyond implementation of methodologies such as Total

Quality Assurance, Kaisen (including the Toyota
Production System «TPS»), Lean Manufacturing, Six
Sigma, Reliability Engineering and other
Multidimensional approaches, he is the founder and sole
proprietor of the methodology “TRANSFORMATIVE AND
INTEGRATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT,” based on Systems
Methodology, designed by Andres Agostini in 2005.

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

Applied Omniscience Activist,(c) Not “insurance-based”
Transformative and Integrative Risk Management,(d)Mind
Expansionist Practitioner. I enjoy teaching a great
deal!
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AN IDEA WORTH SPREADING AS PER MR. AGOSTINI! We can all

attempt the best to tackle so many global crises. Those
concern me. However, there is one global crisis that
TAKES PRECEDENT AND TUTELAGE FROM ANY OTHER CRISIS.

I’M REFERRING TO THE EXTREMELY GRAVE AND UNIVERSAL,

EXISTENTIAL RISK CONCERNING SYSTEMATIC VIOLATIONS
AGAINST MORALITY, PRINCIPLES, VALUES, AND ETHICS. I’ve
given this life-to-death humankind challenge a womb-to-
tomb reflections for a number of years.

In the mean time, disruption potential and its

corresponding vulnerabilities are staggeringly
compounding into an immeasurable defiance to Earth in
its totality. Ethics AND serious rule of law AND true
justice AND zero calamities equal some viable chances
as we grasp the convergence of technologies with the
omniscience perspective.

In fact, with a “tsunami” of new knowledge and novel

skills we might have a change of prosperity. We must
all remember that all “PROBLEMS” are because of
ignorance, especially that ignorance deployed by those
supposed to have empowered minds that in actuality
worship their preferred path: own supine ignorance in
extremis!

TALK TO ME ABOUT! We must embrace (i) science and

technology, (ii) unconventional thinking in excelsis,
(iii) morality and ethics, (iv) civics, justice, and
rigorous law ruling, as well as compassion, humanity
and really enforced harmony and peace.
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“PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT I'M GOOD AT” AS THIS QUESTION

WAS ORIGINALLY REFERRED TO ME AT TED.COM! People don’t
know that I’m extremely good at -with the Omniscience
perspective - seeing existential problems/fixes way in
advance and decisively, and solving extremely complex
difficulties that require maximum precision.

MY TED STORY! I’ve had and still have the pleasure to

be hired by customers and operate with partners before
the most daring and pressing situations. Fortunately,
educated in the USA, Canada, and Great Britain in
academia and chiefly in profession.

I have a unique way of seeing problems and their

solving. Luckily and very much to my advantage, I have
worked in many tenures and for a whole array of
disparate industries.

Subsequently, I feel quite comfortable in dealing with

a gamut of business issues, including some undertaken
by some supranational organizations as the World Bank
and special agencies like or related to or aspiring to
instituting best practices by NASA.

I am always ready to take on an even more stringent

challenge every time. I never advise to make crises
wait when there is so much learning to capture in
solving said crises.

I don’t only do a great deal of researching,

experimenting/testing. But I, too, do huge studying and
studying present “evidence falsifying” (a là Sir Karl
Popper)to walk several steps forward towards the
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optimum omniscience repository applicable by me and via

others.

I can go from huge structuralism to highly amorphous

and a combination of those two without losing
consistency, congruency, sense of direction,
ambient/environment awareness and efficacy.

He has addressed major advisory services to top

executives from Fortune-1000 corporations. Some of its
clients include, World Bank, GE, GMAC, Toyota,
Mitsubishi, and Abbot Laboratories.

MY MOST SUCCINCT BIO at

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

1.-MY EXTENDED PROFESSIONAL PROFILE at

http://www.cybercv.blogspot.com/www.linkedin.com/in/and
resagostini

2.- MY PERSONALITY TYPE at

http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-1601247

3.- WORKS, RESOURCES, TESTIMONIALS, AND REFERENCES at

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

4.- IMPORTANT CONTACTS AND WORK PERFORMED at

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

5.-IMPORTANT RESOURCES at
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http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini

http://bigthink.com/wwwagostiniworksblogspotcom/

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

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

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

ENFORCEMENT PRACTITIONERS at http://www.leadership-
online.blogspot.com/

7.- ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE EXTENSIVELY WORKED WITH at

http://www.slideshare.net/guest45906/andys-andres-
agostinis-clients-arlington-virginia-usa-presentation

8.-A NASA SCIENTIST ASSESSES AND HIRES ANDRES

http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/omega-
evaluates-andres-agostinis-traits

9.- SOME CONTACTS AND MY REPUTATION OVER THE WEB AT

http://www.yasni.com/index.php?action=webprofileand
update

10.- "TRANSFORMATIVE AND INTEGRATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT"

(MY OWN METHOD) AT
http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-2489096

11.- APPLIED OMNISCIENCE DEFINED BY ANDRES AGOSTINI AT

www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-2094865

12.- MY LINES OF PRACTICES

www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-2524521
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13.- ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE WORKED EXTENSIVELY

WITHwww.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-1898282

14. - IS ANDRES AN ACADEMICIAN GIVEN THE GOGGLE SCHOLAR

PUBLICATION AT?
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22andres+agostini%
22&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=on

15.- AT XING at
https://www.xing.com/profile/Andres_Agostini

Andres can operate as a coach, consultant,

indoctrinator, trainer, and adviser, as well as a
transformational manager!

Arlington, Virginia 22202, USA + The World + Multiverse

(sic)