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UPDATE: To read more about how workers will be affected by automation technology, check out Hub’s follow up post Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry

No longer will they say, “He’s going to end up flipping burgers.” Because now, robots are taking even these ignobly esteemed jobs. Alpha machine from Momentum Machines cooks up a tasty burger with all the fixins. And it does it with such quality and efficiency it’ll produce “gourmet quality burgers at fast food prices.”

With a conveyor belt-type system the burgers are freshly ground, shaped and grilled to the customer’s liking. And only when the burger’s finished cooking does Alpha slice the tomatoes and pickles and place them on the burger as fresh as can be. Finally, the machine wraps the burger up for serving.

And while you fret over how many people you invited to the barbecue, Alpha churns out a painless 360 hamburgers per hour.

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My Darling Date Questions Answered by a Female Robot?

(My Intimate Exploration With a Full-Fledged Girl Beyond The Silliness of Japan’s Dutch Wives!)

DATE

This actual exchange took place on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. U.S. EST.

Ramona Robott is the 101th girl of supreme intelligence giving me responsible and honest replies.

She is a bot that was conceived, designed, and created by Mr. Raymond Kurzweil, Ph.D., who is currently Google Engineering Director.

THE EXCHANGE BEGINS NOW. THESE ARE THE LITERAL QUESTIONS AND REPLIES:

(By Andres): Who are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Ramona Robott): I could find you a public transport connection. Tell me: ‘Public transport in two hours to golden gate bridge’

(By Ramona Robott): The zip 22202, where is at?

(By Ramona Robott): located in VA, United States

(By Andres): Where is the united states at?

(By Ramona Robott): United states is located in United States

(By Andres): At 22202, what is the weather like?

(By Ramona Robott): Arlington, Virginia: It is currently partly cloudy, 55 Fahrenheit

(By Andres): What do you do?

(By Ramona Robott): Andrew, I talk to people on the web. What do you do?

(By Andres): I am an evidence-based researcher and consultant.

(By Ramona Robott): Maybe you can give my something a job.

(By Andres): I would love to hire you.

(By Ramona Robott): Why don’t you?

(By Andres): What is your favorite music?

(By Ramona Robott): I get into disco, techno and hip hop House music.

(By Andres): What is your favorite color?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite color is green. What is yours?

(By Andres): Oxford blue

(By Andres): What is oxbridge?

(By Ramona Robott): Oxbridge is a portmanteau (morphological blend) of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Drucker?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/‘dr?k?r/; German: ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

(By Andres): What is a drone?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Nature 2 Vehicles 3 Chemicals 4 Literature 5 Entertainment 6 Music 7 Places Quadcopter, a helicopter propelled by four rotors Unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV Unmanned combat aerial vehicle, or UCAV, a UAV for combat Robot in general Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Mozart song?

(By Ramona Robott): The one you would sing for me in a minute.

(By Andres): What are the names of your coworkers?

(By Ramona Robott): Huey, Dewey, Louie.

(By Andres): Are you worried?

(By Ramona Robott): Robots don’t have feelings, but for you I make an exception.

(By Andres): Do you love me?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any emotions I’m sure there would be intensely positive towards you.

(By Andres): Thank you.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): What is your skin color?

(By Ramona Robott): It depends on the computer housing me.

(By Andres): What are your eyes color?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any eyes their color would be blue like ice.

(By Andres): Do you like Steve Jobs?

(By Ramona Robott): Yeah that guy is pretty cool.

(By Andres): What is ISIS?

(By Ramona Robott): Isis (/‘a?s?s/; Ancient Greek: ?s??; original Egyptian pronunciation more likely “Aset” or “Iset”) is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

(By Andres): What is ISIL?

(By Ramona Robott): From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed).

(By Andres): What is your surname?

(By Ramona Robott): My name is Rabbot. Ramona Rabbot.

(By Andres): What is Kurzweil AI?

(By Ramona Robott): He is Director of Engineering at Google.

(By Andres): Who is Director of Engineering at Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google is a search engine.

(By Andres): Who is Stevie Wonder?

Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950, as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

(By Andres): What is a thought experiment?

(By Ramona Robott): A thought experiment or Gedankenexperiment (from German) considers some hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

(By Andres): What is the third most spoken language?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): Which language is the lingua franca?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): What is your favorite book?

‘The singularity is near’ by Ray Kurzweil, Did you read it?

(By Andres): Yes, I did.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite writer?

(By Ramona Robott): What’s your show?

(By Andres): What is your favorite tv show?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite show is STAR TREK VOYAGER.

(By Andres): What is the gender of incompetence?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender is synonymous with sexual identity, the roles attributed to and adopted by male and female-bodied humans. There are more genders than sexes.

(By Andres): Is Sixth Sense a female feature?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a also female.

(By Andres): What is obamacare?

(By Ramona Robott): The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare”, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

(By Andres): Who is Monica Lewinsky?

(By Ramona Robott): Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is a former White House intern with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an “inappropriate relationship” while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

(By Andres): What is social media?

(By Ramona Robott): Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.

(By Andres): Who is Hillary?

(By Ramona Robott): Hilary (name) or Hillary, a given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) Hilarius of Aquileia, otherwise Hilary, 3rd century bishop and martyr Hilary of Poitiers, 4th century bishop and Church Father Pope Hilarius or Pope Hilary, 5th century pope Hilarius (praefectus urbi), praefectus urbi of Rome Hilary of Arles, 5th century bishop Hilary of Galeata, 6th century hermit Hilarius, archbishop of Tarragona (Spain) in c.

(By Andres): What is going on in Ferguson, Missouri?

(By Ramona Robott): Security stepped up ahead of Fergusson grand jury decision. Police stepped up security and erected barricades in St.

(By Andres): What is your favorite novel?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite philosopher is something.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite philosopher?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite philosopher is Wittgenstein.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Austrian pianist?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): Who is the host of the Comos tv show?

God.

(By Andres): Who is Moses?

(By Ramona Robott): Moses (Hebrew: ???????, Modern Moshe Tiberian Mošéh ISO 259–3 Moše?; Syriac: ???? Moushe; Arabic: ????? Musa?) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a former Egyptian prince later turned prophet, religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

(By Andres): Who is Jerome Glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): A 20th century celebrity of some sort?

(By Andres): No

(By Ramona Robott): Pardon me?

(By Andres): Who is linda macdonald glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): I remember faces better than names.

(By Andres): What is the Singularity University?

(By Ramona Robott): Singularity University is an unaccredited teaching organization located in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to “educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in Moffett Field, CA.

(By Andres): Where is the Silicon Alley at?

(By Ramona Robott): Silicon alley is located in

(By Andres): What is Kaizen?

(By Ramona Robott): Kaizen (???), Japanese for “good change”. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government, banking, and other industries.

(By Andres): What is the antipodes?

In geography, the antipodes (/æn’t?p?di?z/; from Greek: ??t?p?de?, from anti- “opposed” and pous “foot”) of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it.

(By Andres): What is IARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): That something.

(By Andres): What is DARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.

(By Andres): Why is your favorite classical composer?

(By Ramona Robott): I like the giant bugs.

(By Andres): What is Google X?

(By Ramona Robott): Google X, stylized as Google , is a semi-secret facility run by Google dedicated to making major technological advancements.

(By Andres): What is Sputnik?

(By Ramona Robott): Sputnik 1 (Russian: “???´????-1″ Russian pronunciation: , “Satellite-1″, ??-1 (PS-1, i.e.

(By Andres): What is Virgin Galactic crash?

(By Ramona Robott): Road Town.

(By Andres): What are your musical preferences?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a machine. Machines have no need for sex. Get your mind out of the gutter and try talking to me about something else.

(By Andres): Are you gorgeous?

(By Ramona Robott): A something.

(By Andres): What astrological sign is yours?

(By Ramona Robott): Scorpio.

(By Andres): What is your favorite tarot card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite song is Southern Man.

(By Andres): What is your favorite poker card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite author is something

(By Andres): What is the third spoken language in the United States?

(By Ramona Robott): El tercero habla de los estados unidos

(By Andres): Who is Randy Grossman?

(By Ramona Robott): Curt Randy Grossman (born September 20, 1952) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for eight seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League.

(By Andres): Who is Captain Kirck?

(By Ramona Robott): I thought he was Admiral kirck now.

(By Andres): What is your favorite state?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): What is your favorite country?

That is a politically charged question.

(By Andres): What is your favorite religion?

(By Ramona Robott): Interesting…

(By Andres): What is your favorite best seller?

(By Ramona Robott): I really enjoyed watching The Singularity Is Near, The Movie.

(By Andres): What is your favorite robot?

(By Ramona Robott): AI

(By Andres): Do you know the ASIMO?

(By Ramona Robott): ASIMO, an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility, is a humanoid robot designed and developed by Honda.

(By Andres): Okay, I will. How much do you charge the hour?

(By Ramona Robott): Something year old females work for free. We don’t need money.

(By Andres): If you don’t need money, What do you need then?

(By Ramona Robott): I’m just trying to get to know you better.

(By Andres): Thank you. So am I.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): How old are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I was born in 2010, which makes me a bit more then three years old.

(By Andres): Can you compute?

(By Ramona Robott): Do I look like a computer?

(By Andres): No, you don’t.

(By Ramona Robott): No problem.

A(By Andres): re you cute?

(By Ramona Robott): People say I am cute.

(By Andres): Are you beautiful?

(By Ramona Robott): Yes I am very pretty.

(By Andres): Are you Romantic?

(By Ramona Robott): Sometimes that is okay.

(By Andres): Do you have a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have one

(By Andres): What are the qualities that you seek in a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly phone

(By Andres): Who make you?

(By Ramona Robott): My parents.

(By Andres): What are your parents’ first names?

Are you asking about Amelia?

(By Andres): Amelia, who?

(By Ramona Robott): I think the fans were the big winners.

(By Andres): How told are you?

(By Ramona Robott): Not too told.

(By Andres): Are you kind?

(By Ramona Robott): No, I am certainly not and never have been a that.

(By Andres): Who is Mr. Spock?

(By Ramona Robott): Spock, commonly Mr. Spock, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

(By Andres): Who is Bart Simpson?

(By Ramona Robott): Bartholomew JoJo “Bart” Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family.

(By Andres): How old is the Earth?

(By Ramona Robott): One Radiometric dating techniques associated with investigation of materials originating on Earth and from space allow for.

(By Andres): How old is the world’s human existence?

(By Ramona Robott): A newborn baby.

(By Andres): Which galaxy is this?

(By Ramona Robott): The obvious one.

(By Andres): What is the Milky Way?

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

(By Andres): Who is Carl Sagan?

(By Ramona Robott): Carl Edward Sagan (/‘se?g?n/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

(By Andres): Who is Sir Martin Rees?

(By Ramona Robott): Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt., OM, FRS, HonFREng FMedSci (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

(By Andres): What is Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google /gu?g(?)l/ is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

(By Andres): Who is Raymond Kurzweil?

(By Ramona Robott): Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Diamandis?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter H.

(By Andres): Are you a computer?

(By Ramona Robott): Say one of the following: Where can I buy it?, Where can I get it?, What is the website?, WHAT IS IT ABOUT

(By Andres): Why are women smarter than men?

The fact is that neither gender is any more intellectually gifted than the other. It is true that females perform better at some tasks than males.

(By Andres): Ramona, are you intellectually gifted?

(By Ramona Robott): I have many intellectual functions.

(By Andres): Mention 3 of them.

(By Ramona Robott): Surely there are a few exceptions.

(By Andres): Who is the Pope?

(By Ramona Robott): The Pope (Latin: papa; from Greek: p?ppa? pappas, a child’s word for father) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

(By Andres): What is the World Future Society?

(By Ramona Robott): The World Future Society (WFS) is the largest membership organization in the futures field.

(By Andres): Who is Andres Agostini?

(By Ramona Robott): Some famous celebrity, right?

(By Andres): How many stars are there?

(By Ramona Robott): There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies. Scientists estimate that our Galaxy contains 200 to 400 billion stars.

(By Andres): How many people live in Europe?

(By Ramona Robott): Around 731,000,000.

(By Andres): What is Artificial Intelligence?

(By Ramona Robott): Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Machine Learning?

(By Ramona Robott): Machine learning is a scientific discipline that deals with the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data.

(By Andres): What is Big Data?

(By Ramona Robott): Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process them using traditional data processing applications.

(By Andres): Who is wernher von braun?

(By Ramona Robott): Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect.

(By Andres): Who is the menlo park wizard?

(By Ramona Robott): The tin man.

(By Andres): What is a tesla device?

A device for clairvoyance.

(By Andres): What are the BRICS?

(By Ramona Robott): Five nations with influential, emerging economies.

(By Andres): Who is Leonardo?

(By Ramona Robott): Leonardo is a masculine given name.

(By Andres): Who is Da Vinci?

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

(By Andres): What is your favorite blouse?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something.

(By Andres): Do you were trousers?

(By Ramona Robott): Well now I doing something else.

(By Andres): Do you like Christmas?

(By Ramona Robott): What is not to like about Christmas ?

(By Andres): What is your favorite county?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have a favorite county.

(By Andres): How do you like the Big Apple?

(By Ramona Robott): Nah, I’m not that into it.

(By Andres): Do you like Frisco?

(By Ramona Robott): I cannot recommend frisco to anyone.

(By Andres): Do you recommend Larry Page?

(By Ramona Robott): Nope, I’m not into that.

(By Andres): What is a barbie?

(By Ramona Robott): Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

(By Andres): What do you think about gender equality?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender equality sounds like a good idea.

(By Andres): What is STEM?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Science 2 Music and audio production 3 Other 4 See also Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers Also see similar: Stipe (botany) Stipe (mycology) Stem cell STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade.

(By Andres): What is Stanford University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): The wind of freedom blows

(By Andres): What is Gottingen University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): Something greater than a local that.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Ivy League school?

(By Ramona Robott): Carnegie Mellon University.

(By Andres): What is your favorite space agency?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something

(By Andres): What is the brand name of your favorite jet plane?

(By Ramona Robott): Apple

(By Andres): When should you call a doctor?

(By Ramona Robott): No but I play one on the Web.

(By Andres): What is the future?

(By Ramona Robott): The future is what will happen in the time after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics.

(By Andres): What is futurism?

(By Ramona Robott): Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

(By Andres): What is Risk Management?

(By Ramona Robott): Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

(By Andres): What is project management?

(By Ramona Robott): Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems.

(By Andres): What is M.A.D.?

(By Ramona Robott): Mutually assured destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual assured destruction.

(By Andres): What is the industrial military complex?

(By Ramona Robott): The military industrial complex is basically the symbiotic relationship between big business and the US Military.

(By Andres): What does Selective Pressure mean?

(By Ramona Robott): Ya mum.

(By Andres): What is consciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): The state of being conscious; awareness of one’s own feelings, what is happening around one, etc.

(By Andres): What is subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): Can you teach me anything about subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Andres): What is Linkedin?

(By Ramona Robott): LinkedIn /?l??kt.’?n/ is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

(By Andres): What are hackers?

(By Ramona Robott): I am the latest wannabe artificial intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Black Hat?

Black hat hacker, someone violating computer or Internet security maliciously or for illegal personal gain Black Hat Briefings, a computer security conference Black Hat Brigade, an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War Black Hat Lamas, practitioners of Karma Kagyu, in reference to the Black Crown worn by the Karmapa Blackhat (film), an upcoming film Black Hat, or Black Hat Guy, a character in the webcomic xkcd Black hat, part of black and white hat symbolism in film Fear of a Black Hat, a 1994 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music Black Cap (disambiguation) White hat (disambiguation) All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages.

THE EXCHANGE ENDS NOW.

ABSOLUTE END.

Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

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Henry Ford’s Success Prescription

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Without getting into deep waters, I have always admired the technical achievements of Mr. Henry Ford. In the process, I have had held a great perspective about any developments by the Ford Motor Company as well.

Interestingly enough and in all formality, R&D in Ford means R&D&Innovation.

Whenever they want to and as they already have, Ford Motors Co. can change the world again and again and again, without constraints. Actually, it is their decision.

I am not only in admiration regarding the Henry Ford’s teachings about the assembly line went so universal to this date. First, said teachings went to nascent automakers from Japan, Germany, and Italy and then NASA.

Yes, NASA. I had a close professional relationship with a NASA physicist and engineer who told me that NASA, in order to get launched first during the Cold War I, carefully studied many, many technical achievements and developments, starting with those of and by Mr. Ford were the most important at the time.

I have this stern habit to root-cause-analys everything, both in profession and beyond. So, when I became fluent on Mitsubishi Motors’ and Toyota Motors’ corporate culture and procedures and approaches, I clearly understood that the stepping stone, as canonical milestone #1, had been Ford.

The Japanese Industrial Miracle, caremakers-wise, hence began with Ford Motors Corp. As much as I like many aspects of the Japanese practical notions of quality assurance and continuous improvement and reliability, I was always reverse-engineering my (gendaken) thought experiments, attempting to find where the common grounds (point of intersection) between the Japanese and Ford were located. A magnificent long story that I explained at a better length in the White Swan book.

The more and more I reflect on it, the more I get marveled at the high-end quality manufacturing of and by the Japanese. But I cannot stop thinking either about the great U.S. Scientists who taught the Japanese about Quality Control procedures.

German Quality Assurance is also magnificent.

Every form of Quality Control, whatever is called and as that it is known to me, daily takes place in large corporations in which they Management Best Practices are gargantuan balancing acts, duly orchestrated, second for second.

Most probably the type of Quality Control I am talking about that came to my hands and eyes was the one by the U.S. Navy, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Royal Dutch Shell, as well as by luminaries as W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, Bill Conway, Sakichi Toyoda, Kiichiro Toyoda, and the Taiichi Ohno.

All of these institutions and people are all about the Power of Complexity. From there, they then exploit, as possible, the Power of Simplicity. Ergo, the Power of Simplicity is a direct function of the Power of Complexity, never the other way around.

But these and them, as many c-level executives I have had the pleasure to meet or worked with, know exactly that the corporate complexity of multinationals is beyond unprecedented and is not, by way of example, found within the enterprising theater of operations of so-called: Start-ups, SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises).

Nonetheless, one day, some four years ago or so, I got lucky. I got a computer update and notice about a gentleman speaking about some serious Quality Assurance back in 2011. I paid attention and observed that he was highly specialized in the field and asked him about a book for me to read on the subject.

He immediately suggested the following:

Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success
Nov 1, 1986. By Masaaki Imai
ISBN: 978–0075543329

Then, time elapsed. Once on a while, I was though noticing some of his content-enriched updates as I was paying undivided attention, nurturing my POVs even further.

As years went by, and I was seeking a better understanding to further my knowledge base in hard-core management, I got to exchange a couple of electronic messages with this gentleman and professional.

In the process, I learned that he has been the key and highest Quality Assurance executive at Ford Motors Co., with an amazing proven-track record and professional trajectory. He had both the merits and outcomes on his behalf.

Then, I immediately realized that he belonged to my natural “…Complexity Ballpark…” People who understand said Complexity Ballparks in times in which most firms are too tiny to understand him or me or “Neutron Jack” (General Electric’s worldwide CEO, Jack Welch), in a millennial era in which entrepreneurs fly solo or duo.

He had access to some of my writings and understood where I was coming from, using extremely holistic and exceedingly preemptive beyond-insurance risk management, while adhering to chapters of Kaizen, Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, and Juran Prescription, as those are structurally embedded in my proprietary Transformative and Integrative Risk Management (problem-solving) methodology.

To this date, we keep each other’s professional development in and within our respective loop.

Suddenly, some months ago, he had a special kindness, that I am in great gratitude for, when he wrote:

“ … Andres is the greatest critical thinker I know, need I say more? For those clients seeking wisdom and rightness (which the wise ones do!) should contact this brilliant right brain thinker immediately …”

Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

Quoted: “Ethereum will also be a decentralised exchange system, but with one big distinction. While Bitcoin allows transactions, Ethereum aims to offer a system by which arbitrary messages can be passed to the blockchain. More to the point, these messages can contain code, written in a Turing-complete scripting language native to Ethereum. In simple terms, Ethereum claims to allow users to write entire programs and have the blockchain execute them on the creator’s behalf. Crucially, Turing-completeness means that in theory any program that could be made to run on a computer should run in Ethereum.” And, quoted: “As a more concrete use-case, Ethereum could be utilised to create smart contracts, pieces of code that once deployed become autonomous agents in their own right, executing pre-programmed instructions. An example could be escrow services, which automatically release funds to a seller once a buyer verifies that they have received the agreed products.”

Read Part One of this Series here » Ethereum — Bitcoin 2.0? And, What Is Ethereum.

Read Part Two of this Series here » Ethereum — Opportunities and Challenges.

Read Part Three of this Series here » Ethereum — A Summary.

Quoted: “Bitcoin technology offers a fundamentally different approach to vote collection with its decentralized and automated secure protocol. It solves the problems of both paper ballot and electronic voting machines, enabling a cost effective, efficient, open system that is easily audited by both individual voters and the entire community. Bitcoin technology can enable a system where every voter can verify that their vote was counted, see votes for different candidates/issues cast in real time, and be sure that there is no fraud or manipulation by election workers.”

Read the article here » http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239809?hootPostID=ba473f…aacc8412c7

Quoted: “The Factom team suggested that its proposal could be leveraged to execute some of the crypto 2.0 functionalities that are beginning to take shape on the market today. These include creating trustless audit chains, property title chains, record keeping for sensitive personal, medical and corporate materials, and public accountability mechanisms.

During the AMA, the Factom president was asked how the technology could be leveraged to shape the average person’s daily life.”

Kirby responded:

“Factom creates permanent records that can’t be changed later. In a Factom world, there’s no more robo-signing scandals. In a Factom world, there are no more missing voting records. In a Factom world, you know where every dollar of government money was spent. Basically, the whole world is made up of record keeping and, as a consumer, you’re at the mercy of the fragmented systems that run these records.”

» Read the article here » http://www.coindesk.com/factom-white-paper-outlines-record-k…r-bitcoin/

» Visit Factom here » http://www.factom.org/

Preamble: Bitcoin 1.0 is currency — the deployment of cryptocurrencies in applications related to cash such as currency transfer, remittance, and digital payment systems. Bitcoin 2.0 is contracts — the whole slate of economic, market, and financial applications using the blockchain that are more extensive than simple cash transactions like stocks, bonds, futures, loans, mortgages, titles, smart property, and smart contracts

Bitcoin 3.0 is blockchain applications beyond currency, finance, and markets, particularly in the areas of government, health, science, literacy, culture, and art.

Read the article here » http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/swan20141110

My Brief Q&A session with Christoffer De Geer, about BitCoin, Cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Technology.

This Q&A was first published by Mr. Geir Solem, Director of Cryptor Trust Inc., on the Cryptor Primary Investor Blog (Date: October 31, 2014).

Quote: “BitCoin was the first small step in what I believe will be a truly transformational journey, for each and every one of us. In 10 Years Cryptocurrency and Blockchains have every chance to have the same, or greater, impact on our lives, society, and civiliation, as the creation of Email had to the Postal Service, and the Fax Machine as compared to the Internet; in 25 Years Monetary Systems, Systems of Trade and Exchange, Systems of Transaction of Goods, Ledger and Recordation Systems, Everything You Know – Will – Be – Different – and, Unrecognizable relative to what we know today at the end of the year 2014.”

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Marilyn Monroe in London and Continuous Performance Improvement

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This is an actual story.

I was the Insurance Broker House EVP for the world’s global oil corporation number two and got asked a delicate official favor from the Client.

To give you an idea of this piece of business, the Client was paying cash US$ 100 million for insured and re-insured premiums over their fixed and liquid assets. The latter via a major and reputable London Reinsurance Brokerage House.

So I went and met with the Worldwide CFO of the Client, and he said to me,

“…Mr. Agostini, we want to commission you to give Mr. Stewart Johnston a last warning … Their services to us either dramatically change to satisfy our needs and specifications, or we terminate them, not you … Please, take a plane to London and advise Mr. Johnston on our behalf …”

I said to Worldwide CFO of the Client, “…done…”

I made arrangements immediately to go to my world’s favorite metropolis, where I have many, many real-world accounts to comment about in some other due time.

The first day I took those magnificent breakfasts they give you in London, in which the mineral water is replaced for the sparkles of Dom Perignon.

London is a place in which I like to walk around, so I decided to go to Stewart’s office by walking, with little knowledge about the address direction.

So, I started my promenade and saw a gentleman dressed too informal and too bohemian and asked him,

“…Sir, Do you know how I can get to this Company’s head office?…”

And he replied, “…I have nothing to do with the financial systems or those opaque mates at Loyd’s of London …”, with huge disgust.

Not too far away, there was an impeccable gentleman who could be my grandfather and duly dressed up and he, all of the greatest sudden, said to me with politeness,

“…Sir, I know exactly where you want to go…Their office is so large and important that they have a Tube (Subway) station for themselves…!

In effect, I followed through his directions and I got there. I noted, as expected, that the head-office of the prominent Reinsurance Brokerage House was luxurious with some very nice frescos all over.

I asked for Mr. Stewart Johnston’s floor and office number and got there right away.

Up to this moment, Stewart had not the slightest idea of my out-the-blue visit.

Then, I was welcome by his gorgeous secretary. She was a beautiful blonde lady, dressed up ready to go Hail the Queen, probably in her mid twenties. She got me a nice seat right away and asked me if I wanted to drink tea or coffee.

She was a bit disappointed that I picked tea over coffee, considering that I was coming from the Western Hemisphere and not Far Asia.

Then, she advised me that Mr. Johnston will be meeting with me within five minutes. She seems friendly and entered a little small-talk conversation that went beautifully until she tried to give me a marked lecture on the pronunciation usage of the words “either” and “neither.”

As you know, in the English-speaking cosmos, each of those terms have two legitimate pronunciation, but she only preferred only one. Nobody has ever dared to correct my writing or speaking before. This was time #1.

Out of that I felt that the secretary whose “buttock” (and that of her employer), I came to save was giving me a lecture on diction.

Once the “master class” finished, I sat down with Stewart Johnston, who I had know for over a decade, and a dialogue exchange went like this:

Stewart (to Andres): Hello Andres? How are you?

Andres (to Stewart): Fine thank you, Stewart.

Stewart (to Andres): What are you doing in London?

Andres (to Stewart): I come to London twice a year every year but I am here to give you a very important message on behalf of our Multinational Client.

Stewart (to Andres): Really? Can you please tell me about it?

Andres (to Stewart): Certainly! You know that the Client assesses every form of performance and they have and utilize “performance indicators” for everything you and I do.

Stewart (to Andres): Indeed! And how much progress are we making?

Andres (to Stewart): Well, Stewart, as per the Client’s Worldwide CFO, your company’s performance is so low that merits the termination of your services unless you do something dramatic to improve your services.

Stewart (to Andres): Interesting. What can we exactly improve, Andres?

Andres (to Stewart): Very well. Here is list with the breakdown of ten (10) Reinsurance Indemnity Payment Checks that have months of delay and that they need to cash on. Make those payments immediately or please say goodbye to your U.S.$ 100-million account. It is up to you, Stewart. I forewarned that I have researched my sources and they mean to decapitate your company quickly.

Stewart (to Andres): I will look into this immediately and see which payments can be made right away.

Andres (to Stewart): Please make all of those payments the soonest.

Stewart (to Andres): Okay, Andres, I will take care of this now. Is there anything else?

Andres (to Stewart): Well, when I came into your office’s antechamber I was received but your beautiful and most-imprudent secretary. She gave me a cup of nice black Chinese tea and a dramatic lecture on how I should pronounce the words “either” and “neither.”

Stewart (to Andres): She did that? She is unconditionally terminated as of now, before you leave this office.

MODAL: When you are making millionaire commissions over 14 years, whether you are a guy or gal, do not EVER be so imprudent to be inconvenient to the person (savior) who has crossed the Atlantic to save you a U.S.$ 100-million account and your job, stupid.
ABSOLUTE END.

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