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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 TO
UNDERSTANDING THE COMPLEXITIES, SUBTLETIES AND
OPPORTUNITIES OF DRIVING FORCES UNDERGOING
PERPETUAL CHANGE IN TWENTIETH-ONE CENTURY.
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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.
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 I’ve 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.
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
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 of
physics every day, literally. DARPA, the entity
that spinned off an agency termed “NASA” and
magnificent Internet, exhibits a most lucid
maxim: “If you’re 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, GE’s current

CEO, the following: “…post 9/11 is a different
world…” This tragic milestone alone will play
through times in forceful manners up to actual
time horizons. Reversing or smartly modulating
the consequences will take a gargantuan effort
by every constituent in Earth’s civilization,
whether hungry or fulfilled, whether thirsty or
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 today’s world, timidity and

fear are serious competitive liabilities. Coming
times, upcoming times, forthcoming times, future
times will prove themselves ruthless in the
continuum known as PRESENT without a fail.
In illustrating the PRESENT and the FUTURE, What

rolls are they respectively impersonating to
gain us further insight? This is a strong-sense
and critico-creative discernment to
understanding the ever-challenging nature and

anatomy of change in every facet of Human Life!
In order to appreciate time progression and its

beyond geometrical non-linear quality, Can we
establish accurate parallelisms with metaphoric
and not so metaphoric (yet most accurate) terms
to better enlighten our minds with lacking
optimum rigor?
Why do we humans, marshaling through such a

massive technological progression, readily wish
to subject our existence to retrogression by
choosing not to recognize grave and yet subtle
forces that redefine it all?
In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the

fainthearted. Stated simply, be it known that
the scale, scope and magnitudes of the FUTURES
are impossible to overstate.
The PRESENT is so playful and naïve 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 of before 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
Toffler’s 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 how

small 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 literally

started a “space age” race to understanding the
maximum about it (sic).
Some forms of change are amazing and must be

understood at any rate as per my view. For
instance, when things feel less chaotic, it
doesn’t 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, I

found a book that he never mentioned to me and
which he read in 1957, way before my coming into
existence, titled “El Desenlace Del Drama
Mundial” (in Spanish, “The Final Outcome of
World Drama”) authored by Argentinean Dr.
Fernando Chaij in 1956. It is a textbook with
the rigor and strategic end and theme of a book
in the tradition of George Orwell, though it was
fully based on fact, statistics, reflection,
concern and a rectification calling, never
driven by the science-fiction genre.
So many years later I came to a great

understanding (since 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 nature”
and became first nature indeed.
For a client or for a serious subject matter of

mine, I will be eliciting the driving forces
that will impact positively and negatively, as
well the action plans to exploit every UPSIDE
out of every DOWNSIDE. In the mean time, there
is an Arab adage to share with you: “That who
foretells the truth lies even if he is telling
the truth.”
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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 your
brain, might land me or you to pre-cog
capabilities.
The scientific and technological progression,

driven by the convergence of many visionary
industries and the marketability of the stemming
technologies globally, has brought an
unprecedented level of scientific knowledge at a
growing rate beyond geometrically exponential
progression. In the mean time, 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. Terry
Grossman 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 and

its 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 must

comprehend 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 GE’s CEO Jack Welch indicated:
“Seeing the world the way it is, not the way we
hope it will be or wish it to be.” Then, Jeff
Immelt succeeded Jack Welch and became new GE’s
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. Hawkins’s, 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 intellect

and mine dialogue fluently, I will appeal to
very legitimate narrative resources to offer you
an accurate insight and perspective of how the
scientific properties of change are changing and
how changed changes are beginning to change it
all beyond the wildest dreams and nightmares. In
due time, you will realize that this is a well-
meant calling in which vigorous rigor is sine
qua non to the undersigned.
Why will I use the above referred “legitimate

narrative resources”? Because I feel there is
massive universal and dysfunctional illiteracy
concerning the rate of change.
Even as headlines in “hard-copy” newspapers

supersede the most creative fantasies embedded
in science fiction, many incumbents just don’t
get it. Others are really upset because they
cannot understand why the PRESENT does not
resemble the nearest PAST.
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Others are paralyzed in the analyzes. And others

manifest an anarchistic tendency towards
society.
Through centuries, the greatest luminaries have

greatly reflected and recommended not to fight
against extraordinary forces, but to use them
smartly. This time around, with the Kingdom of
the “Society of Knowledge” ruling as the
prominent Tudor family, one must become a cross-
pollinated savant to navigate the waters shed by
said forces.
The PRESENT seems to be having a great deal of

enjoyment by pontificating words and deeds
solely engaged in exponential mediocrity, thus
exploiting the worst of humankind as if it were
the most desired quality. This featured quality
by the PRESENT is pervasively horrendous and
existentially damaging.
On the contrary, the FUTURE is capable, and in

fact it implements so, of doing well to the
point we would astound ourselves. The actual
quotation by Thomas Edison indicates: “If we all
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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 cliché of the moment
... I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking…”
[43].
In my case, I am also extremely against

superfluous and inexpensive thinking. It’s
timely to remembering that humanity’s problems
are all related to ignorance. Very soon enough
you’ll find the rigor, as well as the strong
sense, critico-creative approach, by this
author.
THE CHALLENGE
(by Paul Valéry, 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…”
TEXTBOOK’S 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 world’s greatest and

most rigorous intellect with a perspective
embedded in the future. He, Buckminster Fuller,
successfully tackles a continuously and
increasingly puzzling problem. As follows:
Richard Buckminster Fuller reminds us of the

following: “Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
[5]
Speaking seriously as I do in the entirety of

this textbook, some scientific research
preliminary yet unconfirmed outcomes and
findings seem to suggest that the future rules
the present. The German philosopher Nietzsche
has his own lucid position.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: "It’s our future

that lays down the law of our today." [6] It’s
advantageous to understand what a prominent 120-
year-old corporation such as GE is now
considering. This quote is attributed to GE’s
current CEO, Jeff Immelt: “I have to lead for
tomorrow’s 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 à la Savannah thinking,
since this is a different temporal locus for
certain. See Emerson’s 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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don’t even like. Dr. Knowles, a connoted

American and greatly regarded into adult
education, has a lucid position that can serve
us as a starting point. Following:
Dr. Malcolm Knowles Ph.D.: “The greatest danger
for the survival of the present civilization is
neither atomic war, nor environmental pollution,
nor the exploitation of natural resources, and
nor present crises. The underlying cause to all
of the above is the acceleration of man’s
obsolescence … The only hope seems to be an
electroshock program to re-instill to the
present adults the competencies required to
function adequately under a mode of perpetual
change. This is a profound need – the
immeasurable challenge – that is presented by
the modern society to adult education.”
Former Federal Supreme Court Justice Sandra

O’Connor gave a brief interview in 2009. She is
mobilized into telling people that children and
youngster must be taught both a) Civics and b)
History. Clearly, having seen so much mistaken
people led to grave imprisonment sentences,
O’Connor indicates that many of the people did
not understand the basics about 1) living
civilly in society, 2) respecting the mandates
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of the “Law Of The Land”, and 3) understanding

where society and, in her case, the U.S. comes
from (through systematic study of history) to
comprehend where are we likely to go or not.
On education and to this end, Dr. Skinner made
an important point.
Dr. Burrhus Frederic Skinner Ph.D., ˝Education

is what survives when what has been learned has
been forgotten.” [9]
We see a host of manufacturers of all types of

products, including automakers and their cars.
In great many cases and as people have been
concerning about being so-called “global
winners” in their respective industries, they
were adding to their products more and more
features.
That is, they were adding great complexity while

defying that the whole is greater than the sum
of the parts.
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Evidently, you can add every thinkable

“complexity” to your products, as long as you
greatly upgrade the scrutinizing vista of the
entirety of the systems and the dynamic
interactions among i) hardware (amplest
meaning), ii) software (amplest meaning), and
iii) humans themselves (both the ones
represented by the manufacturers as well as the
end users).
Since you cannot use the same knowledge

repository in making the features-adding-to-
your-products effort, you’d better pay attention
to Einstein’s wise words.
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 America’s 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 said
fallacies and assumptions to great testing to
attempt to disprove them to gain further insight
and acuity of what holds true and what doesn’t.
Antonio Machado: “The eye is not an eye because

you see it. The eye is an eye because it sees
you.” [14]
After the insight by Machado, there is

additional thoughtfulness along these lines:
The Panchatantra (body of Eastern philosophical

knowledge): “Knowledge is the true organ of
sight, not the eyes.” [15]
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Seeing through the eyes of applied science (and

actionable omniscience) is, in my view, the
optimum mode and here lies further food for
thought:
Bernard d'Espagnat: "Even if the Universe is a

little myopic is true that, more than others,
MEN OF SCIENCE ARE ITS EYES." [16]
Drucker was blamed often of self-praising

himself about his capability of foretelling the
future. This is his take on it:
Peter Drucker: “Things that have already

happened but whose consequences have not been
realized [because they were not imagined,
considered, scrutinized or envisioned by
disciplined foresight and far-sight extending
and expanding both sides of the human brain] …
Don’t 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 gives

society a great sense of decisive freedom."
[18]
There has never been a greater importance to the
most sophisticated education, especially to
science, math, and engineering (and most of the
times, the three of them simultaneously). The
ensuing quotation therefore goes:
Arthur C. Clarke: “We have to abandon the idea

that schooling is something restricted to youth.
How can it be, in a world where half the things
a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and
half of the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been
discovered when he was 20?” [19]
Regardless of how difficult, every responsible

adult must assume the difficulties of the
present realities. Then, s/he can establish a
plan of action to work through those realities
to overcome those realities. Khan offers
important insight now.
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Otto Herman Khan: “Clearly, the first task is to

gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the
future, one that opens possibilities rather than
forecloses them.” [20]
Time and action are invaluable resources. Verify

the ensuing quotation:
General Francisco de Miranda: “Time is the

context by means of which action is delivered.”
[21]
Unthinkable thinking will increasingly prove

itself the most sensible decision.
Oscar Wilde: "To expect the unexpected shows a

thoroughly 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 are

put 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, and

not only for security [and safety and
reliability], if for no other reason than that
only [extremely educated] freedom can make
security secure [and safety safe and reliability
reliable]. Brackets are mine. [51]
Before challenging situations, don’t 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 be
thought a fool that open your mouth and remove
any doubt."
Additional and important quotations, directly

related to the subject matter here addressed,
are located at “Appendix of Suggested
Quotations.”
All quotations not otherwise cited are from the

interviews conducted by the author or personal
communications sent to the author.
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, you’d
better 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 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 – omni-mode
and thorough 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, bewilderedness 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."
It’s 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 GE’s current CEO, Jeff Immelt: “I

have to lead for tomorrow’s 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 today’s changes is living a too-
uncontrolled an illusion. Zen Buddhists will
offer you unprecedented lectures on reality
being the greatest mental “fabrication” by the
hominid's mind. The world, that of physical
“existence” and manufactured by the mind, is
being transformed dramatically and irrevocably,
second by second all of the time.
Juxtapositions of many knowledge dominions will

bring about the greatest scientific convergence
ever in the years ahead. Some people like James
Canton call suggest 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, 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.”
TEXTBOOK
To further set the stage for this material, the
textbook “Einstein in the Boardroom” by Suzanne
S. Harrison and Patrick H. Sullivan Sr. may
offer some lucid ideas on the “current” state of
affairs when they claim:
“Humans have been adding to their total

knowledge steadily 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 2003

to this date, speaking of the entirety of
scientific knowledge doubling every five (5)
years. How, then, can one undertake such a
gargantuan challenge, through the “Society of
Knowledge,” unless it is through the stewardship
of the scientific method?
The American Heritage Dictionary’s 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 of
development in the lexicon (for example, bit
map, domain name, and raster in computing; dark
matter, photonics, and yoctosecond in science).
Medicine and medical research continue to
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produce an astonishing array of new terms for

chemicals and substances (endostatin, leptin,
transfatty acid), for disorders and infectious
agents (Asperger’s syndrome, erectile
dysfunction, hantavirus), for treatment
(cocktail, molecular knife, xenotransplant), and
for a variety of creations and discoveries
(designer gene, enteric nervous system,
microsleep)…. In addition, continuing social
change in postindustrial society has given rise
to expressions that describe new business
practices (buyback, microcredit, reverse
mortgage), a changing workplace (face time, job-
share, mommy track), and evolving political
positions and governmental policies (family
leave, term limit, workfare). New sports terms
have arisen (clap skate, five hole, skyboard),
as have words for new educational practices
(charter school, distance learning, homeschool).
The names of foods from other cultures continue
to be adopted (baba gannouj, garam masala,
quesadilla). A host of new cultural developments
has produced a host of new compound cords
(assisted living, poetry slam, shock jock). And
English speakers continue to be an exuberance
force in creative coinage (bloviate, newbie,
wannabe)…. To ensure accuracy in the coverage of
our rapidly changing vocabulary, we have worked
closely with distinguished consultants in a wide
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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
won’t 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 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 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 the
Latin 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-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. 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 the

present with novel information. Why? Because the
FUTURE considers the PRESENT a failed stated in
the realm of time, and does not desire to get
implicated with the downsides of a sub-optimal,
bitter fellow who declines every helpful
knowledge on “emotional intelligence” and
“political intelligence”.
Anyway, and by any rational measure, we are in a

multi-eon-streaming epoch in which mind-
toughness and mind resilience, within kindness
and civility, are going to be far more 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
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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.
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The cultivated brains must root out the endless

dangers to capture the benefits, so humankind
prevails on Earth and much more beyond it if the
Universe (and the embedded Nature of the
latter), too, – and its own hyper-dynamics –
warrants such a sovereign license.
For the first time in history, we can work

backward from our imagination rather than
forward from our past. [28] In the midst of
chaos, there is a learning lesson to assimilate.
Sometimes the table is served for OVER-LEARNING
if the prepared mind is paying huge attention to
the nano-granularity of details.
To me uncharted territory is the most

splendorous “terra incognita” territory, chiefly
because of its sheer number of unknown knowns
and unknown knowns. As well as immense crises,
there territories and incognitos offered an
unprecedented learning opportunity that I will
never waste, my most thoughtful friends.
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 as
dauntingly lucid today as it was more than a
decade ago: Permalink:
http://www.mindstalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.htm
Professor Vinge indicated it in 1993: “Within

thirty years, we will have the technological
means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly
after, the human era will be ended …Is such
progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can
events be guided so that we may survive? These
questions are investigated. Some possible
answers [and some further dangers] are
presented…” Brackets are mine.
I just wonder if the FUTURE is always stalking

on the PRESENT! Perhaps, it is so. One thing can
be ascertained, because of the PRESENT’s 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
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in advance. This is a technique to CURRENTLY get

your brains over-in-sourced by zillion practiced
futuristic scenarios (happily and readily
adopted quite early on).
The FUTURE WILL HIT the PRESENT AND ITS

RESPECTIVE GROUND RUNNING. All of that as it has
been seen up to the present time.
This is a hyper-accelerated Eons-streaming Age

and ever-increasingly by an above and beyond an
over-exponential “many orders of magnitude”
factor.
Said ‘over-exponential factor,’ even when

multiplied by many orders of magnitudes as in
effect it is, the non-linear geometrical and
discontinuous growth rate of it is by most
people immeasurably underestimated and
misunderstood. Besides its intuition is only
flagrant counter-intuition.
To me the PAST is more like Alice (Alice's

Adventures in Wonderland). The PRESENT seems
more like Mr. Hyde while the FUTURE appears to
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be more like the joint conspiracy by Dr. Jekyll

and Dorian Gray. Perhaps, we will need the
combined effort by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha
Christie to decipher these outright enigmas,
namely those stemming from the always-awaited-
but-ever-intruding FUTURE. We are always longing
for the good sides of the futures impiously
forgetting that those futures come along with
great responsibilities and challenges.
Progress is the future outcome of a multitude of

cascades of “current moments” flowing
divergently. The divergence unites seamlessly
but not under the ever-suboptimal comprehension
of the “naked” human eye.
The PRESENT is introvert adhocracy as the FUTURE

is technocracy in perpetuum. The PRESENT is an
illiterate adhocratic one while the FUTURE is
the technocratic, ‘omni mode’ savant. The PAST
is hollow and inconsequential fossils
unverifiable by any “carbon testing.”
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 AN
ACTUAL SUB-SET OF A MUCH GREATER AND THOROUGH
ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, THE FIRM WILL
MEET GARGANTUAN CHALLENGES.
Otherwise, there will be great opportunities!

One end of the greatest Risk Management Effort
(extraneous to insurance, co-insurance, re-
insurance, bonds, and those artifices “marketed”
by beautifully institutionalized “social
engineering,” termed by these God-sent
incumbents: “marketing techniques”) is to
entertaining the fiscally sound outcomes of a
business, literally any business, challenge, or
task.
This FUTURE, that throws around its weight

through every facet of the PRESENT overbearingly
and mercilessly, might be 99.99% INEVITABLE.
Inevitability, in this instance, equates to

meaning that it will be a rogue dictator, over-
ruling capriciously and solely acting upon its
way and capricious taste.
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The unavoidable consequences of this FUTURE can

be mitigated or at least somehow modulated.
Evidently, this FUTURE’s UPSIDES can be,
perhaps, seized and even amplified. To meet both
requisites, there is one HUGE prerequisite
before proceeding any further. The popular
wisdom so 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 mentally
radiantly. 2.- Draw outside the canvas. 3.-
Color outside the vectors. 4.- Sketch sinuously.
5.- Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible
exoskeleton. 6.- Abduct indiscernible
falsifiable convictions. 7.- Reverse-engineering
a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the
lucrative genome. 8.- Guillotine the over-
weighted status quo. 9.- Learn how to add up —in
your own brainy mind — colors, dimensions,
aromas, encryptions, enigmas, phenomena,
geometrical and amorphous in-motion shapes,
enigmas, phenomena, methods, techniques, codes,
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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
là Einstein Gedaken-motorized judgment. 15.-
Provide a roadmap / blueprint for drastically
compressing (“crashing”) the time’s “reticules”
it will take you to get on the top of your
tenure, nonetheless of your organizational
level. 16.- With the required knowledge and
relationships imbedded in organizations, create
support for, and carry out transformation
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initiatives. 17.- Offer a tested pathway for

addressing the linked challenges of personal
transition and organizational transformation
that confront leaders in the first few months in
a new tenure. 18.- Foster momentum by creating
virtuous cycles that build credibility and by
avoiding getting caught in vicious cycles that
harm credibility. 19.- Institute coalitions that
translate into swifter organizational
adjustments to the inevitable streams of change
in personnel and environment. 20.- Mobilize and
align the overriding energy of many others in
your organization, knowing that the “wisdom of
crowds” is outright rubbish. 21.- Step outside
the boundaries of the framework system when
seeking a problem solution. 22.- Within zillion
tiny bets, raise the ante and capture the
documented learning through frenzy execution.
23.- “Moonshine” and “Skunkwork” all, holding in
your mind the motion-picture image that,
regardless of the relevance of “inputs” and
“outputs,” entails the highest relevance is
within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT.
(See definition of “throughput” at [53]).
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 may
appear – 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-
serendipities, c) Randomized serendipities, d)
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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,” 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
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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?
This Monarch will expel every laggard and every

one that, notwithstanding his / her most
advanced education, worships and disseminates
ignorance. This expel will include the transfer
of the selected one to a recondite “curved”
corner of the Universe or the Multiverse.
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.
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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
FUTURE’s perpetual innovation will be endless,
endless so that is beyond the wildest dreams or
nightmares ever conceived by the ultimately
noted or most criticized sci-fi writer.
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. Percentages are arbitrarily
suggested in order to illustrate.
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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 “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
takes place.
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Concerning the PRESENT and specially the FUTURE,

the great majority of people failed considering
the possibility of anything going wrong, no
matter how remote the location or complexity of
the implementation environment.
The PRESENT and the FUTURE engender tsunamis of

CHANGES, principally those changes never
thought-through. When you altered your work
because of competition and/or difficult times,
you are CHANGING your professional occupation
(organizational strategy).
The PRESENT has always been used to being a land

at the dawn of history, that history architected
by a bunch of biographies and auto-biographies
by the winners and the prevailing ones without
considering the side of the losing ones or that
of those without partisan positions.
The PRESENT’s duties are appended to the FUTURE.

The PRESENT’s rights are appended to the PAST.
When you reflect and modify you innermost (and

that one revolting and commuting within the
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innermost by using its own proprietary

translational and rotational moves), you are
CHANGING your essence to some extent. CHANGING
your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting
realities will be your utmost sensible deed.
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,
consultants, advisers, strategists, professors,
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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, and
perplexing, but exuberant trade-offs. Neither
exuberance nor trade-offs are for the
uncultivated.
These trades-offs poise the least thinkable of

the unthinkable results, challenging our body
(physiology), mind (psychology), and soul
(spirit). If you think “exuberant” is a fancy or
undesirable term, kindly please wait until you
come to meet your FUTURE in person.
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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, flawed-minded
without a crew and the indispensable Sherpa, as
you walk and climb toward the mountain’s peak
with your back focused on the peak and while
your eyes are grabbed by the starting-point
locus. You have the right to successfully seek
the anti-canonical milestone, Haven't you?
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 and
controversial discrepancies between the FUTURE
and the PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of
segments from the “preterit tense” kingdom, a
kingdom that is neither awaken nor significant
anymore.
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 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

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 and
physiology of the humans until the FUTURE’s 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, there’s the facet of blended UPSIDE

RISKS with DOWNSIDE RISKS. To really get the
OPPORTUNITIES the DOWNSIDE RISKS must be
terminated or, at least, mitigated and
modulated. Those DOWNSIDE RISKS must be brought
under optimum control as per the technical
parlance I employ.
Such eternal creative-tension discrepancies /

disputes — as imposed by the rogue and nearly
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ageless interrelationship between the FUTURE and

the PRESENT — as the FUTURE wages an all-out
“preemptive war” to get the PAST under
retirement.
These eternal creative-tension discrepancies

make three major displacements. Firstly, it
displaces the PAST to a corner (or quadrant)
where vestiges are fossilized but not looked
after.
It must be mentioned that interrelationship

between the FUTURE and the PRESENT is intense
and will become increasingly more intense,
beyond the boldest and lucid imagination without
a fail.
Mother Nature is a great and loving and noble

matriarch. The Universe is the oldest and wisest
Patriarch, perhaps the elder son of the greatest
intelligence of all.
The Multiverse (many universes happening and

reckoning at the same time, possessing many
dimensions) is not only the maximum, all-
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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
FUTURE’s dominion. Reverse-engineering all
regardless of its origins, terrestrial or
extraterrestrial. Come to think of it and
conclude that both a) all and b) everything is
primordially and ultimately extraterrestrial.
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. [47].
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The Universe is a function of the Multiverse.

Perhaps, the Multiverse is a function of most
known and chiefly unknown forms of utmost
conscientious awareness and supremely lucid
intelligence.
Every human is partly earthling and partly

extraterrestrial. Why? Because pre bio-genesis
and bio-genesis was (at least and as it seems)
massively instilled from the outer space (a sub-
verse of the Multiverse).
If extraterrestrial beings existed, they would

be, in fact, siblings to current humans. How
come? Because there are other genesis different
from bio-genesis on Earth, whether within our
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 — 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.
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-FUTURE’s own tête-
à-tête. [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 — and
by means of reverse-engineering with the
omniscience perspective — the humans will
increasingly be of different constituents and
design, as well as different concerning purpose,
function, and a combination of purpose and
function simultaneously.
We will become more “intimate” with our

eternally ignored relationship with atomic and
sub-atomic particles (not to get me involved in
“dark matter” and “divine” or “God’s matter”).
The PRESENT is always unnecessarily delayed or

even lost and inattentive because its limits are
impermanent and available capabilities are
finite.
The PRESENT never contemplates fast-forward-ly,

but in reversal in so adding to its even greater
inherent disadvantage. The FUTURE operates
beyond the offensive acceleration of “light
speed”-plus and nearly without or with zero
limits or constraints or borders.
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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 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
(thé dansant), and the FUTURE (tertium quid).
[32], [33], [34]. Clearly, the PAST is getting a
fully impeachable CPR by so-called “historians.”
Earned in his own intellectual right, Thomas

Jefferson most cogently stated: “I prefer the
dreams of the FUTURE than history.” Jefferson,
on his own right, always knew that the FUTURE is
un-manipulated from that underperforming venue
called “PRESENT.”
Who would dare not to appreciate that

nanotechnology, biotechnology, bionics, and
artificial intelligence making deep and steep
inroads? Incidentally, the definition of the
omniscience perspective can be revised at
<<www.AllSciCzar.blogspot.com as well>>
The PRESENT is a forgetful sardine while the

FUTURE is a giant cuttlefish in conspiracy with
an octopus and a twenty-four eyes jelly-fish.
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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.
The stream of as-of-now PRESENTS will become —

to some extent — one of the forthcoming FUTURES.
At some point ahead, a PRESENT will be
ultimately integrated into a single FUTURE
seamlessly.
Such a FUTURE, though, will reach a point in

which being bio-based or bio-related or not in
vivo at all will be splendidly awaken and
active.
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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. These kingdoms are subject not to
three but four emperors, namely: liquid, solid,
gas, plasma.
The FUTURE is only about beyond post-humanity

and its staggering brute-force and dramatically-
subtle INTELLIGENCE.
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The PRESENT pertains to pretending discovering

science. The FUTURE is absolute science
dominance and nearly if not thoroughly infinite
power until the Universe’s last say.
On their own earned rights, the PRESENT and the

FUTURE are dogs and darlings, respectively.
The FUTURE has, in many incessant and

efficaciously ways, reminded the present about
the instrumentality of America’s primordial and
indigenous civilizations.
When you take the glorious Dakota’s tribal

wisdom, you’ll be advised: Whenever you discover
you’re on a dead horse, the best strategy is to
dismount.
The undisputable scientific maxim goes,

“everything now working is obsolete”
(unfortunately, including the human being and
the human mind pivoted upon the spine cord) and
therefore is subject to actual perfectibility
for Life.
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As you will never reach perfection (even if

over-practice makes over-perfection), one (and
everything) must be increasingly be upgraded
forever. Can you now relate better to Dakota
wisdom above?
The PRESENT is always misled and misleading,

treasuring a great promise of deceit. The FUTURE
is eloquently transparent and clear, crippling —
in advance — violators of ethics, morality,
principles, integrity, and dignity.
The PRESENT has its eyes glued to the inside-

outs. The FUTURE is immensely into staring at
its outside-ins.
The PRESENT is a powerless hostage not

interested in any vindication at all.
The PRESENT is sick and ailing because of: a)

its once-true believes, b) its once-true
assumptions, c) its once-true conventions, d)
its once-true cosmosvision (weltanschauung), e)
its once-true systems of belief, f) its once-
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true truisms g) its once-true “common sense,” h)

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 in a rather violent and abrupt
way.
The PRESENT is pseudo-architected and mobilized

in tearing down achievement. The FUTURE is
always re-architecting itself while massively
out-fostering breakthrough achievements.
Subsequently, the FUTURE will incessantly remain

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

conquering humans’ immortality or, at least,
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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.
You’d better believe on the doubles!
They insist that the DNA molecule has been with

us through billions of years. Ray Kurzweil
proclaims that “by the 2030s, the nonbiological
portion of our intelligence will predominate”
[1]. Get ready then! Let this brief paragraph to
be introductory to the one ensuing.
Futurama will ultimately and 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.
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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 zillion orders of magnitude.
The FUTURE is bathed, as the PRESENT has already

been carefully hinted, with artifacts that as a
whole are pervasively awakened. These FUTURES
are beyond boundary-less-ness.
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The FUTURE is always unfolding before most

people’s absent-minded eyes, independently if
those eyes are appended or not to so-called
“prepared minds.” The myopia is within the mind
not in the corneas.
The PRESENT is mostly about hardware (palpably

tangibles). The FUTURE is greatly about software
(palpably and not intangibles with consequences
and sequels both in the physical and vivid
virtual worlds).
The hardware era, ever-changing and adapting, is

giving way to the software era. Will next
generation man-made software use the Universe as
a maximum multi-supercomputers hardware?
This colossal eons-streaming Era, regardless of

time locus, is always under ruthless ruling by
the FUTURE.
If you're not remembering the FUTURE is only

because you are ignoring every lesson by the
PAST and PRESENT, both a PAST and a PRESENT, in
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my view, designated by the express mandates and

designs of the FUTURE.
Vest your interest in the FUTURE since planting

your hopes in preterit times will succeed into
failure without a fail.
The PRESENT makes a great number of mistakes

once, twice, thrice and beyond that without
learning a single lesson from even the most
recent and gravest mistakes.
The FUTURE is into extracting the critical

lessons learned.
Whether or not you’re seeking a rival and if the

FUTURE is not conscientiously conceived,
designed, develop and created, the FUTURES will
become your most formidable adversaries.
In unnoticeable yet transformational movement is

what the FUTURE’s status quo has become, a
status quo that is pervasively fluid and
impermanent in perpetuity. On the contrary, the
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PRESENT’s status quo is erratic, timid,

disorganized, idiotized and consequently banal.
While the FUTURE is extremely concentrated and

focused on every matter in which it has a vested
interest, the PRESENT is over-fragmented –
greatly Balkanized –, thus lacking attention and
excessive in dilution of results.
In dealing with our systems of beliefs, strongly

held assumptions, conventions 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.
QUESTION: WHY DON’T WE MAKE OF THE FUTURE A

THING OF THE PAST?
The FUTURE is not in hot pursuit of the PRESENT.

The PRESENT represents one fluid expression by
the ever-more autocratic unstoppable rulings by
demanded the FUTURE.
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Yet we have now a great likelihood to make the

most intelligent decision to lowering the
downsides and upping and upgrading the upsides.
The FUTURE is accustomed and indifferent to the

PRESENT’s most self-valued quality, its quality
of distraction.
The PRESENT is a laggard. The FUTURE is an out-

doer beyond the influence spheres of execution.
Here execution only equates to execution of and
through relevance, not taking it said execution
to the “extra mile” but to the “extra league.” A
league is about three miles.
The FUTURE is a composite vector in reversal to

the PRESENT.
The PRESENT is, at all times, taking a forty-

wink siesta as it dreams of stealing credits and
glories from his countrymen. The FUTURE — under
its own ways, modes and rulings — is relentless
rendering time progressively inexistent.
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The FUTURE is, in every occasion, making the

PRESENT déclassé and hence démodé. [45], [46].
The FUTURE spies on the PRESENT comprehensively.

The PRESENT’s counter-spying attempts on and
towards the FUTURE are less than primitive and
more than entirely ludicrous.
When the FUTURE wishes to blend in with the

PRESENT, said PRESENT shocks.
With the progression and retrogression of

“time,” the postmodern modernity is becoming
more and more “modern” by unprecedented “shock
and awe” standards.
The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is

daydreaming like a child wondering.
The PRESENT is the perfect personification of an

accommodationist while the FUTURE is the most
robust believer (thoroughly faithful and without
rudimentary, slowing-down psychological
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complexes) on his deeds and own existential

existence.
To get underneath the FUTURE's skin is the only

path to understanding the ever-revolutionizing
nature of changed changes.
Therefore, practice the tradition of actionable

mindful mentality – in every theater of
operations – without the dragging hold-backs by
so-called traditions.
Learn a difficult lesson easily and immediately

by Thomas Jefferson: “I prefer the stories of
the future than history.˝
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
(optimum) from the ever-forthcoming FUTURES.
Striving without the maxim effort in capturing
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applied omniscience coupled with universal

morality and ethics will render absolutely
worthless.
The PRESENT is concave whereas the FUTURE is

convex, vexingly convex as a Big Bang’s catch-
as-catch-can.
The PRESENT seems to be into “moribund” mode as

the FUTURE is redefining its always-unfolding
birth.
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 (de-encrypting) the FUTURE now

and making the PRESENT a “thing of the PAST,”
one must learn an easy lesson:
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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 and industriously mobilized
without losing composure and harmony.
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. The PRESENT’s
vested interest into the FUTURE is too huge not
to note it immediately. Nietzsche, thereby,
stated exactly: "It’s our future that lays down
the law of our today."
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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.
Thinking “Big Picture” will never suffice since

this image is fixed. Instead: It is about
carrying on perennially fluidly radiant thinking
irradiantly through quite a few big/small motion
pictures.
Even with the most beneficial UPSIDES from the

FUTURES, not to mention their inherent yet
controllable — to some extent — DOWNSIDES, it
will be a huge existential error not to identify
the diverse facets embedded in that timeless yet
incessantly and incessantly arrhythmically,
abruptly transmutating locus known as
“FUTURES”.
The PRESENT is more like Antonio Machado’s

sentence (“The one that has always returned and
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has never gone anywhere.”) while the FUTURE is

S-H-A-Z-A-M (“The wisdom of Salomon, the stamina
of Atlas, the power of Zeus, the courage of
Achilles, and the speed of Mercury.”)
Clearly, in order for you to identify something

significant and rendering a solution, you must
acknowledge every complexity, every intricacy,
every dynamics and every challenge without
getting paralyzed through the analyzes,
especially the most crucial analyzes to a great
degree from the qualitative stand.
Thereinafter, keeping you reflecting via your

own biological “search engine” seeking to test,
validate, and falsify evidence in the ground and
on the fly, there has now come unquestionably
urgent time for boldest and shrewd execution.
Speaking of texting the evidence, Sir Karl

Popper makes extraordinary sense when he
asserted: “In so far as a scientific statement
speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable;
and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does
not speak about reality.” [51]
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If you don't conceive and develop — jointly with

your manageable and controllable UPSIDES and
DOWNSIDES — your own FUTURES, Who is it going to
do it for you? Really?
I must suggest to review the attached Appendix

on Education for further meditation.
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 and
immediate countermeasures in tackling numerous
and extremely dramatic global crises with
sustained success.
I am referring not to “fashionable” success

capturing ever-lacking the womb-to-tomb
scrutinizing vista and marshaled consideration
pertaining to: a) Factors considered our sworn
existential rivals, and b) Other agents
competing against our efforts to “stay alive
Earthly and with dignity” – that is, if the
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Universe and the Multiverse warrant their

sovereign permission – as we effect our efforts
to countering said global crises (please
remember — for your pondering, reflections and
meditation — the over-empowered “global crisis
of corruption,” greatly downplayed even after
ignoring its immemorial existence). Without an
absolute observance of the indicated in this
paragraph, any “preaching” of “success
capturing” will secure universal failure.
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 super-succeeding at
over-working at the “cure” while maximizing the
ignoring of the “prevention.”
I hope that Earth and “earthians” (paraphrasing

notable and most lucid Richard Buckminster
Fuller) does not learn in hindsight – but in
earliest and sophisticated foresight and far-
sight – the savviest lesson from non-insurance
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and “applied omniscience” driven Risk Management

that I, in my case and as per my own proprietary
method, call “Transformative And Integrative
Risk Management.”
Dr. Stephen Hawking has reiteratively suggested

the world’s civilization to move out of Earth by
spreading in outer space with little success.
View Dr. Hawking interviewed by Mr. Charlie Rose
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeJv6gCroJc
In learning more about this aspect, it is

recommended the visiting Queen Elizabeth’s top-
notch scientist (“Astronomer Royal”), Sir Martin
Rees
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Martin_Rees),
published a textbook titled “Our Final Hour: A
Scientist's Warning by Martin J. Rees” (ISBN-10:
0465068634), available at
http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Hour-Scientists-
Warning/dp/0465068634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
&qid=1271973623&sr=1-1.
Additional research on the subject matter,

addressing the gravest existential UPSIDES may
be founded authored by George Orwell, Richard
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Buckminster Fuller, Bertrand Russell and even

Albert Einstein, among many others.
In no way am I neither a herald of devastations

nor an optimist in the tradition of Dr.
Pangloss. [49].
I do research (under absolute consistency and

congruency with all of my public claims), with
ever-increasing rigor, depth and scope, an
important number of driving forces affecting our
lives.
I am not outside realism but I will never avoid

but face reality in its entirety regardless of
how daring it becomes.
Thus one can assert with certitude that I am

cautiously hopeful, especially as I observe the
challenge and conceive solutions.
I abide by the unknown adage, “the harder I

work, the lucky I get” [eventually and
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hopefully]. Simon Bolivar proclaimed, “God

grants victory to the perseverant.”
It is opportune to make a distinction. So-called

trends are the manifestation of driving forces.
Trends are a function of driving forces and not
the other way around.
There are some “prominent” scientists that

believe that the term “trend” is synonymous with
“driving force.” Again, another critical
existential blunder that blurs our vision.
Even by Dr. Bertrand Russell’s proclaim (“I know

more people who prefer to die than to think.”)
[3], we must anyway create preconditions and
conditions readily and steadfastly for everyone
to get more immersed into the constructive and
yet breakthrough thinking side of the equation
than in the self-destructing one.
The behavior and the patterns of such behavior

by the reading offered by time’s pendulum and
the metronome, as well as other “measurers,” are
beyond worst chaos.
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Facing daring FUTURES, we must become (FIRST)

patternists and, as per my Oxford Dictionary’s
standards and own utter mention, we must each be
(and SECOND) the “monster of omniscience.” [50]
All of the former ad verbum.
THE HOPE
(By William Faulkner, Nobel Prize

acceptance speech, December 10, 1950)
“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy

enough to say that man is immortal simply
because he will endure: that when the last ding-
dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last
worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red
and dying evening, that even then there will
still be one more sound: that of his puny
inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to
accept this. I believe that man will not merely
endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not
because he alone among creatures has an
inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul,
a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and
endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to
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write about these things. It is his privilege to

help man endure by lifting his heart, by
reminding him of the courage and honor and hope
and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice
which has been the glory of his past. The poet’s
voice need not merely be the record of man, it
can be one of the props, the pillars to help him
endure and prevail.” [52]
HOW TO COPE WITH CENTURY TWENTIETH ONE!
Learn a challenging lesson quickly:
To be a conscientiously human being into deep,
subtle, and proactive awareness, you need to
entertain some form of profound spirituality
understanding that the greatest wealth is that
of the spirit and the enlightened mind (those
splendid intangibles).
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Once you do your own most conscientious
awareness for Life, you can increasingly do your
morality and ethics for said Life.
Once you do your morality and ethics, you can do
your actionable knowledge.
In order to capture ever-updatable and
perpetually amplifiable as well as actionable
knowledge, you and only you must challenge
yourself intellectually as if you were competing
with your strongest opponent.

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If you really wish to immerse your mind into the
perspective of the applied all-knowingness, you
most make the greatest effort – in a sustained
mode – towards actionable and applicable
omniscience
(http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/defini
tion-of-transformative-and-integrative-risk-
management-authored-by-copyright-2005-andres-
agostini-andy-arlington-virginia-usa), chiefly
with the perspective attached by the most
sophisticated exact sciences.
Once you do your intellect, knowledge, and
science, you can lucidly conceive your lucrative
futures for the so-called and lamentable “heres
and nows.”
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When your futures are done, conceived,
visualized, and developed way in advance,
foresight, and far-sight by you, you can then do
your upside and downside risks.
When risks and competing rivals are done solely
by you optimally, you can do your benefits.
Your risks and competing rivals get much better
done when you consider lavish provisions for
contingency planning under the rigor and vigor
of mentioned omniscience.
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Now you know – complete the entirety of this
process throughput systematically, systemically,
holistically, and without ignoring a single step
mentioned above – how to proceed in capturing
success in personal, professional,
organizational, and societal life.
Can you now commence your own development, by
and for yourself, of self-improvement and/or
self-betterment?
By © Copyright 2010 Andres Agostini (*)

www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com
www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini
www.twitter.com/SciCzar
www.google.com/profiles/AgoNews
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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
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res+agostini%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&
as_vis=0
REFLECTING ON THE EDUCATION WE IMMEDIATELY NEED
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ON EDUCATION (1769 – 1821):

“…Education, strictly speaking, has several
objectives: one needs to learn how to speak and
write correctly, which is generally called
grammar and belles letters. Each lyceum has
provided for this object, and there is no well-
educated man who has not learned his
rhetoric.... After the need to speak and write
correctly comes the ability to count and
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measure. The lyceums have provided this with

classes in MATHEMATICS embracing arithmetical
and MECHANICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THEIR DIFFERENT
BRANCHES .... The elements of several other
fields come next: chronology, geography, and the
rudiments of history are also a part of the
education of the lyceum …. A young man who
leaves the lyceum at sixteen years of age
therefore knows not only the mechanics of his
language and the classical authors, the
divisions of discourse, the different figures of
eloquence, the means of employing them either to
calm or arouse passions, in short, everything
that one learns in a course on belles letters.
He also would know the principal epochs of
history, the basic geographical divisions, and
how to compute and measure. He has some general
idea of the most striking natural phenomena and
the principles of equilibrium and movement both
with regard to solids and fluids .... Whether he
desires to follow the career of the barrister,
that of the sword, or ENGLISH, or letters; if he
is destined to enter into the body of scholars,
to be a geographer, engineer, or land surveyor –
in all these cases he has received a general
education necessary to become equipped to
receive the remainder of instruction that his
circumstances require, and it is at this moment,
when he must make his choice of a profession,
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that the special studies present themselves ....

If he wishes to devote himself to the military
art, engineering, or artillery, he enters a
special school of MATHEMATICS, the polytechnique
(institution, especially college dealing with or
devoted to various TECHNICAL subjects). What he
learns there is only the corollary of what he
has learned in elementary mathematics, but the
knowledge acquired in these studies must be
developed and applied before he enters the
different branches of ABSTRACT MATHEMATICS. NO
LONGER IS IT A QUESTION SIMPLY OF EDUCATION, AS
IN THE LYCEUM: NOW IT BECOMES A MATTER OF
ACQUIRING A SCIENCE …. The total length of the
course of the Artillery and ENGINEER school
being fixed at two years, we must divide the
course into four parts, each comprising six
months of study. Students in the first class
would learn: 1.- The infantry maneuvers of the
platoon and battalion. 2.- The maneuvers of
field and siege artillery as well as those of
mortars and howitzers. 3.- Mechanical maneuvers,
the composition of explosives… 4.- The
principles of the attack of fortifications. 5.-
The entire position of the aide-mémoire
pertaining to firing, and finally. 6.-
Everything necessary to the gunner and the
engineer in the field .... Students will be led
to the target range; they will lob bombs into
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the target barrel, fire blank cartridges, etc.,

and construct every kind of battery. They will
continue their [initial] course of construction.
In the third class students would pursue their
STUDIES IN HYDRAULIC ARCHITECTURE, CIVIL and
military. They would busy themselves with the
most complicated part of construction and LEARN
EVERYTHING NECESSARY to direct and superintend
the construction of a fort. They would take
cognizance of the details of foundries, mines,
etc .... The fourth class would be dedicated to
perfecting the students in the different
subjects that they have been studying. They
would go over all of the details of arsenals,
mines, galleries, etc. – in brief, everything
that would complete their instruction as
engineers and gunners would belong to the
curriculum of this class …. In general, in the
establishment of a school for engineers and
artillery one should consider the knowledge of
the maneuvers of all the guns and the tactics of
infantry as the principal object. When a student
is admitted to the School of the Battalion, he
would be forced to perform the manual of arms
and the maneuvers of the battalion at least
three times every ten days … It is important for
the maneuvers of artillery to keep in mind that
nothing is more uncertain than the art of
firing. This portion of the military art is
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classified among the PHYSIO-MATHEMATICAL

SCIENCES, yet its results are dubious; those of
practice are certain. Students having completed
one course in mechanics know nearly everything
that they must understand and apply… It is
appropriate therefore to strive above everything
else, and not as one of the foremost foundations
of the instruction, to see that each student
executes the manual of arms and all of the
maneuvers of artillery better than a veteran
soldier, that he is skilled in large practice
and HAS PERFECT KNOWLEDGE of the employment of
artillery. No one can be considered a good
student if, upon graduation, he cannot go
immediately to a battery or a siege. It is
proper that upon joining his unit he should
instruct a class of recruits in the maneuvers of
artillery and infantry and in the mechanical
maneuvers. How often do you not see officers
unable to place a gun carriage, direct a
mechanical maneuver, fashion explosives, and
forced to take lesson from old sergeants? … When
a student can aim a gun better than the soldier,
no one will question either his right to
advancement or the other advantages of his
education. Old sergeants will not be jealous of
these young officers when they never have to
teach them anything.”
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SIR IAN HAMILTON IN 1921 ON NAPOLEON: “It is

only progressively that one can form a great
army. Certainly no other commander (leader) in
his day devoted as much thought and attention to
organization as Napoleon, who went into
painstaking detail to assure that his forces
(team and resources) were disciplined, prepared,
and ready to take the field (the marketplace and
its competitors). The army marches, works, and
has its being by organization and discipline.”
WERNHER VON BRAUN ON EDUCATION, 1912 –1977,

(Father of the American Space Program):
“…The average citizen today, of course, has far

more scientific information at his disposal than
did those greatest of intellects of earlier
times. Yet paradoxically, I think that THERE HAS
NEVER BEEN A GREATER NEED FOR INCREASED
UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION OF SCIENCE. It
has been said that, although the choice of
direction for our civilization will be
determined through democratic process, it is
there that the problem begins. TO MAKE RATIONAL
CHOICES, THE AVERAGE CITIZEN MUST UNDERSTAND THE
NATURE AND ROLE OF SCIENCE AT A TIME WHEN ITS
BREADTH AND COMPLEXITY ARE INCREASING ALMOST
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EXPONENTIALLY .... Conversely, the scientist, at

a time when he can barely keep up to date in his
specialty, must not isolate himself in his
parochial interest. Instead, he should see his
profession as a part of the larger world, to
evaluate himself and his work in relation to all
forces, especially the humanities, which shape
and advance society. THE NEED, THEN, IS FOR AN
EDUCATIONAL PROCESS RESULTING IN MORE SCIENTIFIC
LITERACY FOR THE LAYMAN, AND MORE LITERACY IN
THE HUMANITIES FOR THE SCIENTISTS .... Man in
this scientific age is free only to the extent
that he has a grasp on himself and his
surroundings. FREEDOM – THE ABILITY TO SPEAK,
THINK, ACT, AND VOTE INTELLIGENTLY – is based
largely on our ability TO MAKE CHOICES growing
out of our understanding of the issues involved.
With each advance of science, there is an
invitation to more understanding. This is the
essence of the burden borne by all peoples since
the dawn of humanity. There must be widespread
understanding of the role of science in modern
society, both as to its limits and our
dependence on its basic function as a tool for
our survival. This is the imperative for
scientific literacy .... How do we encourage
scientific literacy? I THINK THE PROBLEM IS HOW
TO INSTILL IN STUDENTS A PERMANENT DESIRE TO
LEARN. All youth is endowed with curiosity from
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the very beginning. What can education process

do, not only to keep this natural curiosity
alive, but to make it a permanent part of the
individual drive? … Students should be
encouraged, beyond learning facts, to be
intrigued by objects and events in their
environment, as well as to become aware of and
responsive in a positive manner to beauty and
orderliness in their environment. THEY SHOULD BE
TAUGHT TO WILLINGLY SUBJECT THEIR DATA AND IDEAS
TO CRITICISM OF THEIR PEERS WHILE ACQUIRING A
CRITICAL, QUESTIONING ATTITUDE TOWARD
INFERENCES, HYPOTHESES AND THEORIES. Early in
education, they should be led to recognize the
limitations of scientific modes of inquiry and
the need for additional, quite different
approaches to the quest for reality …
ULTIMATELY, THEY SHOULD BE INSTILLED WITH AN
APPRECIATION FOR THE INTERRELATEDNESS OF
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY .... This is
essentially the scientific method. By learning
the scientific method, students will understand
its role in society and at the same time to
think for themselves. LEARNING TO THINK FOR
ONESELF, IN TURN, IMPARTS A DEEP SENSE OF
FREEDOM. ONCE TESTED, AN APPETITE FOR IT IS
FORMED WHICH MAY WELL ENDURE THROUGHOUT LIFE
.... But if our young people are going to gain
the appetite, our schools, our colleges, our
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universities, must bear an ever greater

responsibility. ALL TOO MANY TIMES IN THE PAST,
EDUCATION – PARTICULARLY IN THE SCIENTIFIC
DISCIPLINES – HAS PLACED EXTREMELY HEAVY
EMPHASIS ON TRANSMITTING THE ESTABLISHED
KNOWLEDGE OF THE PAST. THERE HAS BEEN A TENDENCY
FOR TEACHERS TO ASSIGN, AND TO ENCOURAGE ROTE
LEARNING, INSTEAD OF TAKING THE ADMITTEDLY MORE
DIFFICULT PATH OF ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO THINK
FOR THEMSELVES .... THE MAINSPRING OF SCIENCE IS
CURIOSITY. SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, THERE HAVE
ALWAYS BEEN MEN AND WOMEN WHO FELT A BURNING
DESIRE TO KNOW WHAT WAS UNDER THE ROCK, BEYOND
THE HILLS, ACROSS THE OCEANS. THIS RESTLESS
BREED NOW WANT TO KNOW WHAT MAKES AN ATOM WORK,
THROUGH WHAT PROCESS LIFE REPRODUCES ITSELF, OR
WHAT IS THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE MOON.”
QUESTION: ARE THE ROMANIC CULTURES IN SOUR

OPPOSITION WITH NAPOLEON BONAPARTE’ AND WERNHER
VON BRAUN’S SUCCESS PRESCRIPTIONS? Yes, the
Romanic cultures – to an appalling and
unfortunate degree (and with the notorious
exception of Leonardo Da Vinci) – have this
overwhelming counter feeling against Napoleon
Bonaparte’ and Wernher von Braun’s Success
Prescriptions. When the subject matter is
addressed, the respective incumbents take it as
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a violation to their traditions and not as an

opportunity to grow beyond any past historic
consideration.
DR. MALCOLM S. KNOWLES, PH.D. AND AMERICAN

AUTHOR OF “THE ADULT LEARNER: THE DEFINITIVE
CLASSIC IN ADULT EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCE
DEVELOPMENT” WROTE ON EDUCATION: “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 education.”
APPENDIX OF SUGGESTED QUOTATIONS
Attributed to Winston Churchill: “Courage is the

capacity to go from failure to failure with
increased enthusiasm!”
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Attributed to Andre Gide (1869 – 1951): “Man

cannot discover new oceans unless he has the
courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Upton Sinclair (attributed to): “It is difficult

to get a man to understand something when his
salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
Brian Tracy (attributed to): “No one lives long

enough to learn everything they need to learn
starting from scratch. To be successful, we
absolutely, positively have to find people who
have already paid the price to learn the things
that we need to learn to achieve our goals.”
Sir Winston Churchill (attributed to): “The era

of procrastination, of half-measures, of
soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is
coming to a close. In its place, we are entering
a period of consequences.”
Louis Pasteur: “Chance favors the prepared

mind.”
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Mother Teresa (attributed to): “Do not wait for

leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Attributed to Henry Ford (1863 – 1947): “Wealth,

like happiness, is never attained when sought
after directly. It comes as a by-product of
providing a useful service.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (attributed to): “A mind,

once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.”
Louis V Gerstner, Jr., Former CEO, IBM

(attributed to): “No credit can be given for
predicting rain – only for building arks.”
Donald Rumsfeld (attributed to): “As we know,

there are known knowns. There are things we know
we know. We also know There are known unknowns.
That is to say we know there are some things We
do not know. But there are also unknown
unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
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Author Unknown(attributed to): “If opportunity

doesn’t knock, build a door.”
Albert Einstein: “The significant challenges we

face cannot be resolved at the same level of
thinking we were at when we created them.”
All quotations not otherwise cited are from the

interviews conducted by the author or personal
communications sent to the author.
THE MOST THOUGHTFUL STATEMENT BY ANY AMERICAN

PRESIDENT TO DATE!
“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and

do the other things, not because they are easy,
but because they are hard, because that goal
will serve to organize and measure the best of
our energies and skills, because that challenge
is one that we are willing to accept, one we are
unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend
to win, and the others, too. It is for these
reasons that I regard the decision last year to
shift our efforts in space from low to high gear
as among the most important decisions that will
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be made during my incumbency in the office of

the Presidency.” By John F. Kennedy, Address at
Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort
Delivered in Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962.
[55]
WHAT I’VE GIVEN YOU!

I’ve given you some ways of thinking and
perceiving this ever-impermanent world of ours.
Yet the most important task now, depending on

your objectives, goals and desires, is for you
to make or to fail making your own research and
to make your own conclusions as you come up with
said conclusions for and by yourself alone.
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.
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[15] The Panchatantra (body of Eastern

philosophical knowledge) from Oxford Dictionary
of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.
[16] Bernard d'Espagnat from Oxford Dictionary
of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.
[17] Peter Drucker from Oxford Dictionary of
Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.
[18] Dr. James D. Watson, Ph.D., as he was
interviewed by Charlie Rose most recently in
year 2009.
[19] Arthur C. Clarke at ‹brainyquotes.com›
[20] Otto Herman Khan at ‹brainyquotes.com›
[21] General Francisco de Miranda from Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations, ISBN: 0-19-866185-1.
[22] James Canton, Technofutures: How Leading-
Edge Innovations Will Transform Business in the
21st Century by James Canton
(http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-Leading-
Edge-Innovations-Transform-
Business/dp/0976108100/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=book
s&qid=1268366802&sr=1-3 )
[23] Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be
created and how it will change our lives by
Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler (ISBN-10:
038552207X)
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[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)
[28] “Leading the Revolution” by Gary Hamel
(ISBN-10: 1591391466)
[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
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[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.
[41] Multiverse at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
[42] “The Cycle of Leadership” by Noel M. Tichy
(ISBN: 0-06-662056-2)
[43] Herman Kahn’s quotations at
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/herm
an_kahn.html
[44] Innovate Like Edison: The Five-Step System
for Breakthrough Business Success By Michael J.
Gelb (ISBN-10: 0452289823)
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[45] Déclassé at Oxford Dictionary (ISBN 0-19-

861122-6)
[46] Démodé at Oxford Dictionary (ISBN 0-19-
861122-6)
[47] Richard Buckminster Fuller at
http://www.brainyquotes.com/quotes/authors/r/r_b
uckminster_fuller.html
[48] Yoctosecond, definition of, at
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/yoctosecond
[49] Dr. Pangloss at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candide
[50] “Monster of omniscience” at page V, first
paragraph, Concise Oxford Dictionary (ISBN 0-19-
861122-6)
[51] Quotations by Karl Popper at
http://www.thefreedictionary.com
[52] Radical Evolution by Joel Garreau (ISBN0-
385-50965-0).
[53] Definition of “throughput.” Throughput:
Output or production, as of a computer program,
over a period of time. The quantity or amount of
raw material processed within a given time, esp.
the work done by an electronic computer in a
given period of time. An amount of work, etc.
done in a particular period of time. Volume of
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data or material handled: the amount of

something such as data or raw material that is
processed over a given period.
[54] The American Heritage Dictionary’s (fourth
edition, 2000)– ISBN 0-395-82517-2
[55] By John F. Kennedy, Address at Rice
University on the Nation's Space Effort
Delivered in Houston, Texas, September 12, 1962.
SOURCE: http://www.dudeface.com/kennedyrice.html
(seen on June 12, 2007).
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY RECOMMENDED

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend
Biology by Ray Kurzweil
(http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-
Transcend-
Biology/dp/0143037889/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
&qid=1268365913&sr=1-1
)
Lessons from the Future: Making Sense of a

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

Information, Biology, and Business by
Christopher Meyer and Stan Davis
(http://www.amazon.com/Its-Alive-Convergence-
Information-
s&qid=1268366347&sr=1-1)
Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected

Economy by Stan Davis and Christopher Meyer
(http://www.amazon.com/Blur-Speed-Change-
Connected-
Economy/dp/0446675334/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&s=book
s&qid=1268366208&sr=1-22 )
Future Wealth by Stanley M. Davis and

Christopher Meyer (http://www.amazon.com/Future-
Wealth-Stanley-M-
Davis/dp/1578511941/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&q
id=1268366424&sr=1-1 )
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The Intelligent Universe: AI, ET, and the

Emerging Mind of the Cosmos by James N. Gardner
and Ray Kurzweil
(http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Universe-
Emerging-Mind-
Cosmos/dp/1564149196/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&
qid=1268366513&sr=1-6 )
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation

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

J. Rees (http://www.amazon.com/Our-Final-Hour-
Scientists-
Warning/dp/0465068634/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
&qid=1268366726&sr=1-1 )
Technofutures: How Leading-Edge Innovations Will

Transform Business in the 21st Century by James
Canton (http://www.amazon.com/Technofutures-
Leading-Edge-Innovations-Transform-
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s&qid=1268366802&sr=1-3 )
The Extreme Future: The Top Trends That Will

Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years by James
Canton (http://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Future-
Trends-Reshape-
World/dp/B001OMHSWQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&q
id=1268366802&sr=1-1 )
Futuring: The Exploration of the Future by

Edward Cornish (http://www.amazon.com/Futuring-
Exploration-Future-Edward-
Cornish/dp/0930242610/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books
&qid=1268366927&sr=1-1 )
PS: All quotations not otherwise cited are from

the interviews conducted by the author or
personal communications sent to the author.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mr. Andres Agostini is - first and foremost - a

Global Independent Professional Contractor and a
Member of the Advisory Board of ACC Group
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Worldwide (New York, Miami, London). He is also

Executive Associate for Global Markets at Omega
Systems Group Incorporated (Arlington, Virginia,
USA). He has 30 years of applied,
professional/empirical experience. He has two
majors on insurance management in the U.S., took
"Mechanical Engineering Technology" in Dawson
College (Montreal, Canada), as well as
Linguistics courses in Queen's University and
Saint Lawrence College (both at Kingston,
Ontario, Canada). He took “Mechanical
Engineering” in Universidad Metropolitana,
Caracas, Venezuela.
Through his professional life and beyond upper

education, he became engaged in being trained
and indoctrinated by the most prominent minds
and 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 (beyond the three-
scenario mode), 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
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Manufacturing, Six Sigma, LeanSigma, 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 and with the applied
omniscience perspective, designed by Andres
Agostini in 2005.
Mr. Agostini is passionate about (a) the FUTURE,

(b) Applied Omniscience Activist,(c) Not
“insurance-based” Transformative and Integrative
Risk Management,(d)Mind Expansionist
Practitioner. I enjoy teaching a great deal!
AN IDEA WORTH SPREADING AS PER MR. AGOSTINI! 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 profound womb-
to-tomb reflections for a number of years.
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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 applied
omniscience perspective.
In fact, with a “tsunami” of new knowledge (and

subsequently an epic flood of obsoledge) 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.
“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 -
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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.
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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 optimum
omniscience repository applicable by me and via
others.
I can go from huge structuralism to highly

amorphous and a combination of those two without
losing consistency, congruency, sense of
direction, ambient/environment awareness and
efficacy.
He has addressed major advisory services to top

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4tNFnLjDyQ
1.-MY EXTENDED PROFESSIONAL PROFILE at

http://www.cybercv.blogspot.com/www.linkedin.com
/in/andresagostini
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2.- MY PERSONALITY TYPE at

http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/1-
1601247
3.- WORKS, RESOURCES, TESTIMONIALS, AND

REFERENCES at
http://www.ECADEMY.com/account.php?id=408933
4.- IMPORTANT CONTACTS AND WORK PERFORMED at

http://www.PLAXO.com/directory/profile/201864946
128/463c7d64/High-Tech/High-Tech+Visionary
5.-IMPORTANT RESOURCES at
http://www.slideshare.net/andresagostini
http://bigthink.com/wwwagostiniworksblogspotcom/
http://www.docstoc.com/profile/omnisciczar
http://www.ted.com/profiles/view/id/231424
6.- LEADERSHIP FORUM WITH U.S. MILITARY AND LAW

ENFORCEMENT PRACTITIONERS at
http://www.leadership-online.blogspot.com/
7.- ORGANIZATIONS I HAVE EXTENSIVELY WORKED WITH

at http://www.slideshare.net/guest45906/andys-
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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=webprofile
and 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
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+ag
ostini%22&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2001&as_sdtp=
on
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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 + The

Multiverse + Computronium (sic)

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10.- How To Cope With Century Twentieth One!

11.- Appendix, “Reflecting on the Education We

Why is this FUTURE different to others? Why is

What are the imperatives we must micro- and

position and benefit from such futures and

Why will this FUTURE unveil the ill and flawed

maxim: “If you’re not failing frequently, you

Can we seriously and professionally (that is,

Many people have huge difficulty understanding

It is attributed to Jeff Immelt, GE’s current

satisfied, whether sophistically educated or

I really hope that those not believing such a

Subsequently, in today’s world, timidity and

In illustrating the PRESENT and the FUTURE, What

understanding the ever-challenging nature and

In order to appreciate time progression and its

Why do we humans, marshaling through such a

In the final analysis, the FUTURE is not for the

The PRESENT is so playful and naïve just gaming

As the PRESENT carries on just acting serially

In instituting best analyzes and countering the

Back in 1985, as I was starting to manage large

At that moment, and for some strange reason,

From there on – having read the book carefully,

The driving force was the understanding of how

To a great extent and since them, I literally

Some forms of change are amazing and must be

What it means is that many forms of chaos are

When my father gave me his private library, I

So many years later I came to a great

And my father would always tell me, besides

shaping our personalities, “try to foresee every

I was raised in a home in which it was much more

Fortunately I am not a prognosticator but I am

For a client or for a serious subject matter of

By extreme systematic and systemic cognition, I

The scientific and technological progression,

Medical advancements and breakthroughs not only

prevailing for up to one thousand years while

Many serious researchers speak about as living

There is a valuable thought about the future and

In addition and as it is believed to be

Before solving any complex problems, one must

As I paraphrase Dr. Stephen Hawking and to

In aligning the idea of understanding the nature

To further enlighten the present material, Tichy

Agreeing greatly with Dr. Hawkins’s, Welch also

There is a mandate in the PRESENT over the

Transformation involves not just tearing away

In speaking to your intellect, as your intellect

Why will I use the above referred “legitimate

Even as headlines in “hard-copy” newspapers

Others are paralyzed in the analyzes. And others

Through centuries, the greatest luminaries have

The PRESENT seems to be having a great deal of

On the contrary, the FUTURE is capable, and in

did the things we are capable of doing well we