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Damon Tabor — Popular Science


On September 16, 2008, Carl Pike, the deputy head of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division, watched live video feeds from a command center outside Washington, D.C., as federal agents fanned out across dozens of U.S. cities. In Dallas, a team in SWAT gear tossed a flash-bang grenade into a suburban home and, once inside, discovered six pounds of cocaine behind a stove, and a stockpile of guns. At a used-car dealer’s house in Carmel, Indiana, agents pulled bricks of cocaine from a secret compartment in his Audi sedan, while state troopers dragged a stove-size safe onto the lawn and went at it with a sledgehammer.

In the coming weeks, the net widened to include caches of assault rifles, a Mexico-bound 18-wheeler with drug money hidden in fresh produce, and a crooked Texas sheriff who helped traffic narcotics through his county. In Mexico City, a financier was arrested for laundering drug money through a minor-league soccer team named the Raccoons (and an avocado farm). After one especially large bust, when it came time for a “dope on the table” photo, there was in fact no table big enough to support the thousands of tightly bundled kilos of confiscated cocaine. They had to be stacked in the back parking lot of a police station.

The raids and arrests were the final stage of a DEA-led investigation called Project Reckoning—18 months, 64 cities, 200 agencies—intended to cripple Mexico’s Gulf Cartel. Over the past two decades, the organization had built a drug empire that spanned across Mexico and into the U.S. It had become pervasive, hyper-violent, brazen. Cartel operatives had smuggled billions of dollars’ worth of narcotics into the U.S. They had assassinated Mexican politicians and corrupted entire police departments. One of the organization’s leaders had famously brandished a gold-plated .45 at two agents from the DEA and FBI traveling through northeastern Mexico. The cartel had even formed its own paramilitary unit, a band of former Mexican police and special-forces soldiers called the Zetas, to seize territory and dispatch rivals. The notorious syndicate became known as La Compañia, or The Company.

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Information Technology Vis-à-vis Technology Per Se! Is all “…technology…” an “…information technology…” only? Aren’t there other technologies above and beyond increasingly indispensable I.T.? The Most Authoritative and Functional Elucidation of the Technology Concept! By Mr. Andres Agostini at http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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With the advent of personal computers and the Internet, whenever anyone pronounces the word “…technology…” there is an unprecedented expectation to mean information technology. Something similar happens with the word system that goes, by far, further than just meaning "...computer system(s)…” But, let us just focus on technology now.

In addition of addressing I.T., it will also be coped with B.T., that is “…Business Technology …”, also called Business Technology Management (BTM).

Definitions stressing non-IT definitions of technology will be capitalized to show emphasis. By the way, in Canada, France and many other nations in the West, capitalized words do not ever have a negative connotation at all. As this prominent Blog and Forums reach out for a worldwide audience, I would suggest Earth’s readers consider the preceding in this paragraph.

According to the prestigious Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (RASL), technology entails: “… Set of theories and techniques that enable the practical use of scientific knowledge.… Treaty of technical terms…Language of a science or an art.…Set of instruments and procedures of a particular industrial sector or product.…” At http://bit.ly/1gI41lz

Conversely, the Spanish-language version available on Wikipedia indicates at http://bit.ly/1gRFB5z :

“…Technology is the set of scientifically ordered , expertise for designing and creating goods and services that facilitate adaptation to the environment and satisfying the essential needs as desires of humanity. It is a word of Greek origin, τεχνολογία formed by Techne ( τέχνη art or craft technique , which can be translated as skill) and ology ( λογία , the study of something). Although there are many very different technologies together, .… When I capitalized Technology may refer to both the theoretical discipline that studies common to all technologies and knowledge technology education, school discipline doomed to become familiar with the most important technologies…”

And also observes:

“.…However, the technology can also be used to protect the environment and prevent the growing needs cause a depletion or degradation of materials and energy on the planet or increasing social disparities.…In first approximation, the technology is the set of knowledge, skills, abilities and interrelated procedures for the construction and use of natural or artificial devices that translate the means to meet desires, wants, needs, skills and human compulsions . This definition is inadequate for which we have to analyze the functions , aims and epistemological aspects of technology.…”

And:

“…In prehistoric technologies have been used for essential needs (food, clothing, shelter, personal protection, social relationship, understanding of the natural and social world) , and also in history for personal and aesthetic pleasures ( sports, music, hedonism in all its forms ) and as a means to satisfy desires (symbolizing status, making weapons and the full range of drugs used to persuade and dominate people) artificial means…”

Also:

“…Non-technical functions of technology products.…After a while, the novel features of technology products are copied by other brands and cease to be a good sales pitch. Then take important consumer beliefs about other independent characteristics of its principal function as the aesthetic and symbolic.…Aesthetic function of technological objects…Beyond the essential fit between form and technical function , beauty is sought through shapes, colors and textures. Between two products equal technical performance and price, surely anyone choose to find more beautiful. Sometimes, if clothing , beauty can prevail on practical considerations. Often bought nice clothes even though we know that their clothing hidden details are not optimal , or that its duration will be short due to the materials used.…”

As well:

“…The most prominent and frequent technological objects manufactured by its symbolic function is the case of large buildings : cathedrals, palaces , giant skyscrapers. They are designed to belittle those inside (case of large atriums and high ceilings of cathedrals ) , dazzle with fancy displays (the palaces ) , instill awe and humility (for large skyscraper) . It is no coincidence that the terrorists of September 11, 2001 elected as the main target of their attacks on the Twin Towers in New York , site of the World Trade Organization and main command center of American economic power…”

In addition:

“…The Apollo Program was launched by President John F. Kennedy at the height of the Cold War, when the United States was apparently losing the space race against the Russians, to show the world of intelligence, wealth, power and technological capacity of States USA. The pyramids of Egypt are the most expensive example of the symbolic use of technologies…”

Additionally:

“…Methods technologies .… The technologies used, in general, different scientific methods , although experimentation is also used in science. The methods differ depending on whether industrial or industrial technologies artifact production , servicing , fulfillment of tasks or organization of any kind. A common method to all manufacturing technologies is the use of tools and instruments for the construction of artifacts. Technologies to provide services , such as electricity supply system make use of complex systems by qualified personnel…”

Equally:

“…Tools and Instruments .… The principal means for making artifacts are energy and information. The energy can give material form, location and composition are described by information. The first tools such as stone hammers and needles of bone, only facilitated and directed the application of force, by the people , using the principles of machines simples. 2 The use of fire, which changes the composition of making food more easily digestible, provides illumination enabling sociability beyond the daylight hours, provides heating and fends off ferocious beasts and animals, changed both the appearance and human habits…”

Moreover:

“…The tools incorporate more sophisticated information operation , such as strippers that can cut the sheath to the appropriate depth to pull it easily without damaging the metal core . The term ‘instrument’, however , is more directly associated with precision tasks , such as surgical instruments , and data collection , and electronic instrumentation and measurement instruments, nautical navigation and air navigation.…Machine tools are complex combinations of various governed tools (currently, many by computers) by information obtained from instruments, also incorporated in them…”

Furthermore:

“…According to science writer Asimov.…Inventing demanded firm work hard and thinking. Edison inventions drew custom and taught people who were not a matter of luck or brains. Because, while it is true that we enjoy today’s phonograph , cinema, electricity, telephone and a thousand other things, he made those of practical value…”

SOURCE : http://bit.ly/1gRFB5z

The Oxford English Dictionaries at http://bit.ly/1gB5SUY point out: “…Technology.…[is the] application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.… and devices developed from scientific knowledge.…[TECHNOLOGY IS THE] BRANCH OF KNOWLEDGE DEALING WITH ENGINEERING OR APPLIED SCIENCES.…The money will be spent over the next four years on technology, science and mathematics.…Members of the public will often express caution about the advantages of new science and technology…”

Brackets are mine.

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gB5SUY

The Free Dictionary at http://bit.ly/1gI64pH argues that technology is “…The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.…THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND MATERIAL USED TO ACHIEVE A COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL OBJECTIVE.… Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology…[Under] Anthropology [,] The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials…”

AS WELL AS:

“.… The branch of knowledge that deals with applied science, engineering, the industrial arts, etc. .… THE APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE FOR PRACTICAL ENDS.…A TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS, INVENTION, OR METHOD.…THE SUM OF THE WAYS IN WHICH SOCIAL GROUPS PROVIDE THEMSELVES WITH THE MATERIAL OBJECTS OF THEIR CIVILIZATION.… THE TERMINOLOGY OF A FIELD; technical nomenclature [That is to say by «nomenclature»: A system of names used in an art or science: the nomenclature of mineralogy…in a taxonomic classification: the rules of nomenclature in botany.…the terminology used in a particular science, art, activity, etc…]…”

Furthermore:

“.…Technology — the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems technology — the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems.…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gI64pH

On technology, the MacMillan dictionary at http://bit.ly/1gcflb3 argues that technology is the “…advanced scientific knowledge used for practical purposes, especially in industry…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gcflb3

The Latin definition of technology includes: “…art work [and] art/craft/trade [and] method/trick [and] skill/talent/craftsmanship…”

The technology (τεχνολογία ) definition in Greek dictionaries is as follows: [the] “…scientific and technical knowledge, the development of technology…”

Brackets are mine.

The Wikipedia French definition of technology at http://bit.ly/1l50zF6 indicates that “…The word technology is the study of tools and techniques. THIS TERM REFERS TO EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE SAID SEVERAL SPECIFIC HISTORICAL PERIODS, CONCERNING THE STATE OF THE ART IN ALL AREAS OF PRACTICAL SKILLS AND USE OF TOOLS. IT THEREFORE INCLUDES ART, CRAFT, CRAFTS, APPLIED SCIENCE AND POSSIBLY KNOWLEDGE. BY EXTENSION IT CAN ALSO REFER TO SYSTEMS OR METHODS OF ORGANIZATION THAT ALLOW SUCH TECHNOLOGY, AND ALL FIELDS OF STUDY AND THE RESULTING PRODUCTS…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1l50zF6

Wikipedia’s English Definition Of Technology at http://bit.ly/1fDxJUC indicates “…word , teaching, scholarship… systematic treatment of grammar and rhetoric…a word that it does not have the time given in the today’s common sense…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1fDxJUC

Wikipedia’s German Definition Of Technology at http://bit.ly/1ihYC4H observes that “…Expressly called Wolff also the architecture as a part of the technology. [And] Wolff sees the technology as a possible branch of philosophy .…[TECHNOLOGY IS THE] THE PRINCIPLE [ OF MODERN INDUSTRY ] , EVERY PROCESS OF PRODUCTION [ … ] DISSOLVE INTO ITS CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS , CREATED THE WHOLE MODERN SCIENCE OF TECHNOLOGY…”

Some brackets are mine, others are not.

Conversely:

“…Since the late 19th Century technology to the special field of technical sciences , which deals with the processing and machining procedures. One speaks of mechanical, chemical , food technology , etc. , limits the term so explicitly to the study of the production methods .… Technology: discipline of technical sciences, the material and technical side of the production process , the technological process .… In English , particularly American-style [English] , which actually existing word is techniques, an entirely uncommon as a counterpart to the German technology.… The range of meanings of English technology is much broader than that of technology [in German]: It ranges from technology to machine, tool, computer program to technical systems and procedures. Accordingly, in the translation from English into German caution should be exercised…”

Brackets are mine.

Likewise:

“…General Technology (trans-disciplinary art research and technology teaching) and the specific technologies ( the individual technical science disciplines ) .… A generally accepted definition of technology does not exist [in German as per Wikipedia].…You have to guess the meaning from the context in each case …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1ihYC4H

Similarly, the Engineer’s Definition Of Technology at http://bit.ly/1gBexXk establishes that technology is the “…the scientific application of knowledge to solve practical problems and to make new inventions…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gBexXk

What is TECHNOLOGY? As per The Law Dictionary at http://bit.ly/1d1u6gc : “…INFORMATION APPLICATION TO DESIGN, PRODUCTION AND UTILIZATION OF SERVICES AND GOODS AND ORGANIZING HUMAN ACTIVITIES.…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1d1u6gc

Similarly, technology, as per http://bit.ly/1g2iqcw , is “…THE BRANCH OF KNOWLEDGE THAT DEALS WITH THE CREATION AND USE OF TECHNICAL MEANS AND THEIR INTERRELATION WITH LIFE, SOCIETY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT, DRAWING UPON SUCH SUBJECTS AS INDUSTRIAL ARTS, ENGINEERING, APPLIED SCIENCE, AND PURE SCIENCE .…the sum of the ways in which social groups provide themselves with the material objects of their civilization .… discourse or treatise on an art or the arts.…systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique.…science of the mechanical and industrial arts…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1g2iqcw

A Full Definition of TECHNOLOGY at http://bit.ly/1gBfPlf posits that technology is the “.… the practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area : engineering [and] medical technology .… a capability given by the practical application of knowledge <a car’s fuel-saving technology> .… a manner of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge <new technologies for information storage .… the specialized aspects of a particular field of endeavor <educational technology>…”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gBfPlf

Equally, a definition of technology at and by http://bit.ly/1pcVmse ensues: ”… THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AVAILABLE TO A SOCIETY THAT IS OF USE IN FASHIONING IMPLEMENTS, PRACTICING MANUAL ARTS AND SKILLS, AND EXTRACTING OR COLLECTING MATERIALS .… TECHNOLOGIES MAY SEEM LIKE TOOLS OR IMPLEMENTS, BUT THEY ARE MORE THAN MERE EXTENSIONS OF HUMAN CAPACITY .… TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT MERE EXTERIOR AIDS BUT ALSO INTERIOR TRANSFORMATIONS OF CONSCIOUSNESS .… WRITING IS A TECHNOLOGY THAT RESTRUCTURES THOUGHT …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1pcVmse

Wikipedia’s Information technology definition at http://bit.ly/1l5866Y is “…Information technology (IT) is the application of computers and telecommunications equipment to store, retrieve, transmit and manipulate data, often in the context of a business or other enterprise. THE TERM IS COMMONLY USED AS A SYNONYM FOR COMPUTERS AND COMPUTER NETWORKS, BUT IT ALSO ENCOMPASSES OTHER INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGIES SUCH AS TELEVISION AND TELEPHONES. Several industries are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, e-commerce and computer services .… Humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating and communicating information since THE SUMERIANS IN MESOPOTAMIA DEVELOPED WRITING IN ABOUT 3000 BC, BUT THE TERM INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ITS MODERN SENSE FIRST APPEARED IN A 1958 ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler commented that ‘…the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology .…’ Their definition consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the application of statistical and mathematical methods to decision-making and the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer programs…”

Equally:

“…BASED ON THE STORAGE AND PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED, IT IS POSSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH FOUR DISTINCT PHASES OF IT DEVELOPMENT: PRE-MECHANICAL (3000 BC – 1450 AD), MECHANICAL (1450–1840), ELECTROMECHANICAL (1840–1940) AND ELECTRONIC (1940–PRESENT). THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES ON THE MOST RECENT PERIOD (ELECTRONIC), WHICH BEGAN IN ABOUT 1940 …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1l5866Y

Information technology as per the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Online at http://bit.ly/1nEXoWw , “…the technology involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1nEXoWw

IT (Information Technology) Definition at http://bit.ly/1mhZKJn argues: “… Stands for ‘Information Technology,’ and is pronounced ‘I.T.’ It refers to anything related to computing technology, such as networking, hardware, software, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies. Many companies now have IT departments for managing the computers, networks, and other technical areas of their businesses. IT jobs include computer programming, network administration, computer engineering, Web development, technical support, and many other related occupations. Since we live in the “information age,” information technology has become a part of our everyday lives. That means the term ‘IT,’ already highly overused, is here to stay …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1mhZKJn

SOURCE: Technology Sector Definition | Investopedia

Information Technology’s A Definition at http://abt.cm/1kJQeM4 is that ” …We use the term information technology or IT to refer to an entire industry. In actuality, information technology is the use of computers and software to manage information. In some companies, this is referred to as Management Information Services (or MIS) or simply as Information Services (or IS). The information technology department of a large company would be responsible for storing information, protecting information, processing the information, transmitting the information as necessary, and later retrieving information as necessary …”

SOURCE: http://abt.cm/1kJQeM4

Defining ”…Business Technology …” (B.T.) at eHow via http://bit.ly/1dekhfj : “… Business technology involves the use of mechanisms that enable business organizations to process inputs and outputs more effectively and efficiently. It impacts every area of the business, assisting employees in maintaining smooth operations among departments throughout the business …”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1dekhfj

In the same way:

Business Technology vs. Information Technology at http://bit.ly/1iEGaEa argues”

“… As it turns out, the simple search of ‘business technology’ on Google returns over 21 million results! .… With the growing pervasiveness of technology over the past decade, THERE ARE FEW SCENARIOS WHEREBY TECHNOLOGY IS NOT BEING LEVERAGED TO ENABLE THE BUSINESS .… BUSINESS IS TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY IS BUSINESS .… CLEARLY THIS IS MUCH MORE THAN A SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIP. THE CHALLENGE FOR ORGANIZATIONS IN THE FUTURE WILL NOT BE THE BASED ON THE AVAILABILITY OF TECHNOLOGY, BUT RATHER ON THE MANAGEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF THE TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE BUSINESS ADVANTAGE …”

Additionally:

” … As the lines between business and technology continue to converge, you have to think about the preparedness of the next generation business technology leaders and whether they are equipped to effectively manage the complexities of business technology .… Many CIO’s when asked about their labor force, raise significant concerns about the shortage of skilled IT professionals such as software engineers, however, I believe the shortage has much more of an impact from a management perspective. Given the increase in technology spend which can be as high as 40 to 50 percent in some industry sectors, ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF CIO’S (AND THIS NUMBER IS INCREASING), CONTINUE TO REPORT TO THE CFO. THIS REPORTING RELATIONSHIP WILL FURTHER DEMAND A CERTAIN LEVEL OF FINANCIAL SAVVY, WHICH IS TYPICALLY NOT A STRONG ATTRIBUTE OF TODAY’S TECHNOLOGY MANAGERS .… ”

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1iEGaEa

What is Business Technology? through Yahoo Answers at http://yhoo.it/1g2t3ME : ” … Business Technology Management (BTM) is a management science which aims to unify business and technology business strategies with the aim of extracting the full potential value of business technology solutions .… This dimension refers to the institution of a set of robust, flexible processes, broadly defined as: Quality of Business Practice: Doing the right things .… Efficiency: Doing the right things efficiently .… Effectiveness: Doing the right things well .… Organization: This refers to the establishment of appropriate organizational structures – essentially, establishing a structure in which every member understands the scope and responsibilities of his or her role, and understands the structure of which they are a part .… Information: This emphasizes the value that the effective, timely provision of information has in enabling effective decision making, and puts into place a structure of data and metrics to allow their best use .… Technology: Tying the other three dimensions together is the idea that technology plays a vital role in all processes. The appropriate use of technology can enable timely information sharing, improve co-ordination between members of an organization and makes processes easier to execute …”

By the same token:

” … Business Technology Management defines 17 such capabilities, grouped into four functional areas .… Governance and Organization: These capabilities ensure that business technology decisions are effectively identified and executed – essentially, developing an organizational structure that meets the needs of the business, gives consideration to regulation and manages risk appropriately .… Managing Technology Investments : These capabilities ensure that the enterprise understands its current IT capabilities, what is currently available and what it is working on for the future. They also ensure that executives select the best technology initiatives to advance the objectives of the business .… Strategy & Planning: These capabilities ensure that Information Officers make the most appropriate moves to synchronize technology and business, both reducing complexity and planning for future developments .… Strategic Enterprise Architecture: These capabilities ensure that appropriate information exists that can describe current and future business environments, and enable executives to make plans and implement strategies that will simplify the business technology environment within the enterprise …”

SOURCE : http://yhoo.it/1g2t3ME

As well:

Wikipedia’s List of technologies — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at http://bit.ly/1gBkwM0 includes verbatim:

Practical Technologies
c. 2 mya : Simple stone technology
c. 1.5 mya : Fire creation
c. 1.2 mya years ago : Stone tools
c. 110,000 years ago : Fur clothing
c. 43,000 years ago : Mining
c. 40,000 years ago : Logboat
c. 36,000 years ago : Bone flute
c. 32,000 BC : Animal domestication
c. 30,000 years ago : String
c. 30,000 years ago : Painting
c. 23,000 BC : Ceramics
c. 18,000 BC : Sewing
c. 15,000 BC : Rope
c. 10,000 BC : Plant domestication
c. 8000 BC : Brick
c. 8000 BC : Spindle
c. 7000 BC : Metalworking
c. 6000 BC : Salt cultivation
c. 5000 BC : Leather
c. 5000 BC : Irrigation
c. 4500 BC : Equestrianism
c. 4000 BC : Weaving loom
c. 4050 BC : Wheel
Military Technologies
c. 1.6 mya : Acheulean hand axes
c. 400,000 years ago : Spear and Javelin
c. 25,000 BC : Dart thrower
c. 18,000 years ago : Boomerang
c. 12,000 BC : Mace
c. 9200 BC : Microliths
c. 9000 BC : Bow
c. 7000 BC : Defensive wall
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Astronomical Technologies
c. 5000 BC : Megaliths
c. 5000 BC : Sundial
Classical Era

(3500 BC — 500 AD)
Practical Technologies
c. 3500 BC : Writing systems
c. 3000 BC : Mummification
c. 3000 BC : Papyrus
c. 3000 BC : Ard plough
c. 3000 BC : Wheel
c. 3000 BC : Glass making
c. 3000 BC : Galley
c. 3000 BC : Pottery
c. 2800 BC : Metallurgy/Bronze forging
c. 2700 BC : Plumbing
c. 2500 BC : Abacus
c. 2000 BC : Iron Smelting
2nd millennium BC : Arch
c. 1700 BC : Alphabet
c. 1500 BC : Glass making
c. 11th century BC : Steel
c. 800 BC : Saddle
c. 710 BC : Lock
c. 600 BC : Aqueduct
c. 600 BC : Archimedes’ screw
6th century BC : Caliper
c. 515 BC : Crane
c. 325 BC : Odometer
3rd century BC : Watermill
c. 200–300 BC : Block and tackle
c. 100–500 BC : Horseshoe
c. 100 BC : Paper
50 AD : Aeolipile
Military Technologies
c. 3000 BC : Sword
c. 2600 BC : Chariot
c. 800 BC : Ram bow
8th century BC : Incendiary arrows
c. 700 BC : Polyreme
5th century BC : Crossbow
399 BC : Catapult
359–336 BC : Pike
c. 130 BC : Stirrup
50 BC : Scorpio
Astronomical Technologies
c. 4000 BC : Calendar
c. 1500 BC : Water clock
c. 1500 BC : Sundial
c. 1100 BC : Gnomon
c. 2300 BC : Map
c. 300 BC : Hemicycle
c. 130 BC : Orrery
Medieval Era

(500 AD — 1450 AD)
Practical Technologies
876 AD : Zero
9th century AD : Windmill
Military Technologies
c. 672 AD : Greek fire
c. 1350 AD : Longsword
c. 1400 AD : Plate armour
c. 1500 AD : Supergun
Astronomical Technologies
1283 AD : Mechanical clock
Renaissance Era

(1450 — 1800 AD)
Practical Technologies
1656 AD : Pendulum clock
Military Technologies
c. 1300 firearms
Astronomical Technologies

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gBkwM0

Please note, too, the Wikipedia’s list of emerging technologies at http://bit.ly/1gIoJlw as it literally follows:

” … This is a list of currently emerging technologies, which contains some of the most prominent ongoing developments, advances, and innovations in various fields of modern technology. Emerging technologies are those technical innovations which represent progressive developments within a field for competitive advantage …”

Contents

1 Agriculture
2 Biomedical
3 Displays
4 Electronics
5 Energy
6 IT and communications
7 Manufacturing
8 Materials science
9 Military
10 Neuroscience
11 Robotics
12 Transport

Agriculture

Agricultural robot
Closed ecological systems
Genetically modified food
Meat incubator
Creating synthetic meat products
In vitro meat Research and development
Precision agriculture
Soylent (food substitute)
Vertical farming
Biomedical
Artificial uterus
Extracorporeal pregnancy,
Reprogenetics,
same-sex procreation
Body implants, prosthesis Trials, from animal (e.g., brain implants) to human clinical (e.g., insulin pump implant), to commercial production (e.g. pacemaker, joint replacement, cochlear implant)
Brain implant, retinal implant

Cryonics Hypothetical, research
Life extension
Genetic engineering
Eliminating genetic disorders (gene therapy)
Genetically modified food, genetic pollution
Hibernation or suspended animation
Life extension, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence
Nanomedicines
Oncolytic Virus
Regenerative medicine
Robotic surgery
Stem cell treatments
Trial spinal cord injury treatment (GERON), cultured cornea transplants.
Tissue engineering
Organ printing
Virotherapy
Gene therapy, cancer therapy
Virotherapy, Oncolytic Virus
Vitrification or cryoprotectant Hypothetical, some

Holography (Holographic display, Computer-generated holography) Diffusion
Organic light-emitting transistor
Phased-array optics
Quantum dot display Diffusion

(And a long so-forth).

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1gIoJlw

And, now:

It is highly advisable for the avid reader to notice what a lexicon, researched by 200 American and Canadian Philosophiae doctors, states on its preface.

Subsequently, please note:

The American Heritage Dictionary’s Introduction (fourth edition, 2000) by Joseph P. Pickett, Executive Director, literally indicates, to further illustrate the reader, [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 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 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, film-making, 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 …”

From the preceding you can infer the plethora of specialized technologies there is.

SOURCE: The American Heritage Dictionary’s (fourth edition, 2000)— ISBN 0−395−82517−2

IMPORTANT:

As a review, recap and synthesis of all of the work above, I suggest the reader give a careful consideration to the following citations:

1.- “ …This term refers to everything that can be said several specific historical periods, concerning the state of the art in all areas of practical skills and use of tools. It therefore includes art, craft, crafts, applied science and possibly knowledge. By extension it can also refer to systems or methods of organization that allow such technology, and all fields of study and the resulting products…”

2.- “.…[Technology is the] the principle [ of modern industry ] , every process of production [ … ] dissolve into its constituent elements , created the whole modern science of technology…”

3.- “…Information application to design, production and utilization of services and goods and organizing human activities.…”

4.- “…the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science…”

5.- “… The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials .… Technologies may seem like tools or implements, but they are more than mere extensions of human capacity .… Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness .… Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought …”

6.- “.…the Sumerians in Mesopotamia developed writing in about 3000 BC, but the term information technology in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review …”

7.- “…Based on the storage and processing technologies employed, it is possible to distinguish four distinct phases of IT development: pre-mechanical (3000 BC – 1450 AD), mechanical (1450–1840), electromechanical (1840–1940) and electronic (1940–present). This article focuses on the most recent period (electronic), which began in about 1940 …”

8.- “ … there are few scenarios whereby technology is not being leveraged to enable the business .… business is technology and technology is business .… Clearly this is much more than a semantic relationship. The challenge for organizations in the future will not be the based on the availability of technology, but rather on the management and utilization of the technology to drive business advantage .…”

9.- “ …about one-third of CIO’s (and this number is increasing), continue to report to the CFO. This reporting relationship will further demand a certain level of financial savvy, which is typically not a strong attribute of today’s technology managers .… ”

CONCLUSION:

As I will explain briefly later, there is only one global “…technology…” since time immemorial. Yes, there is I.T. and also B.T.

By way of example, there are specialized technologies (by their own rights) in fields, among innumerable others, such as: Agriculture, cryonics, life extension, lenetic engineering, eliminating genetic disorders (gene therapy) , genetically modified food, genetic pollution, hibernation or suspended animation, brain implant, retinal implant, so forth.

With the access and research of offline and online dictionaries, I will hereby offer a womb-to-tomb 89-word definition of technology.

The reader should bear in mind that “…engineering …”, in most instances, can operate as a synonym to “ … technology …”

Dictionaries above defined “…engineering …” as “ … The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems …. The profession of or the work performed by an engineer …. Skillful maneuvering or direction: geopolitical engineering; social engineering …”

Back to my own definition now:

“… Technology is instituted in order to solve practical problems (both mild and complex ones) ─ especially in industry, commerce, economy, science, technology, society, and politics (including geopolitics) ─, the methodical practical application of the scientific method, mathematical principles, practical sciences and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective and beyond, as well as to achieve practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems …. The profession of or the work performed by any engineer …”

If you want a briefer definition, please see this: ” … the methodical and systematic application of science in order to solve practical problems …”

Accordingly:

Kindly please remember the ensuing quotation:

“…The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future…” ─ Inscription from statuary pedestal at National Archives in Washington

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Professional Futurologist
and Entrepreneurial Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Why The Universal Usage Of The Terms “…Futurism…” And “…Futurist…” Is Unimpeachably and Outrageously Wrong As Per Three World-Class Dictionaries! By Mr. Andres Agostini at http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

DICTIO

Futurism Vs. Futurology, as per the most authoritative dictionary of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language (translated into English by Andres), ensues now.

According to RASL, Futurology is thereby the “…set of studies that purports to scientifically predicting the future of man…”

While the word Futurism, according to RASL, equates to “…1. Spiritual, cultural and political attitude, etc., oriented towards the future. 2. Movement driven at the beginning of twentieth century by Italian poet Marinetti, who attempted to adapt art to the dynamics stemming from the advancements of technique…”

In Spanish and Italian and Portuguese it is outright wrong to speak about “futurism” and “futurist” as it is done today. Ergo, the right pathway is “futurology” and “futurologist,” respectively.

Under the American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), futurism is “…1. A belief that the meaning of life and one’s personal fulfillment lie in the future and not in the present or past.…2. An artistic movement originating in Italy around 1910 whose aim was to express the energetic, dynamic, and violent quality of contemporary life, especially as embodied in the motion and force of modern machinery…”

While under the AHD, futurology is “…The study or forecasting of potential developments, as in science, technology, and society, using current conditions and trends as a point of departure.…”

Under the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), futurism is “…An art-movement, originating in Italy, characterized by violent departure from traditional forms, the avowed aim being to express movement and growth in objects, not their appearance at some particular moment. Also applied to similar tendencies in literature and music.…[In]1915 W. H. Wright Mod. Painting 276 Marinetti, a poet, is the spiritual (and monetary) father of Futurism…”

Under (OED), futurology is “…The forecasting of the future on a systematic basis, esp. by the study of present-day trends [present-day dynamic driving forces that reshape the present and future] in human affairs…”

Brackets are mine.

Conversely, this is immeasurably critical as well as, especially when noted scientists and intellectuals are frequently accusing other people to disrespect scientific inquiry and the scientific method. So every new idea with an impeachable method and a most detailed actionable plan (propelling in-all-truth novel scientific findings optimally), by said noted scientists and intellectuals easily get to be called “…pseudo-science…”

When they get intellectually challenged, they become allegedly envious, therefore satanizing and bastardizing others, and thus calling them “…pseudo-scientists…”

Playing with old and well-established “words” is, in my opinion, impious and an outright deed of pseudo-science…”

The lexicographers of the latest print (2004) of the American Heritage Dictionary extend to the combined work and research by over 200 American and Canadian Philosophiae Doctors.

What do they do, really? By means of example, this: ”…The scientific process or work of writing, editing, or compiling a dictionary.…” that includes “…Practical lexicography that is the art or craft [practice and science] of [systematically] compiling, writing and editing dictionaries…”

Brackets are mine.

And that also includes: “…Theoretical lexicography is the scholarly discipline of analyzing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language, developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries, the needs for information by users in specific types of situation, and how users may best access the data incorporated in printed and electronic dictionaries. This is sometimes referred to as ‘metalexicography’…”

A person devoted to scientific lexicography is called a scientific lexicographer. The preceding example of the American Heritage Dictionary is an optimal one.

A NASA Rocket Scientist, a physicist, systems engineer and doctor in science, Vernon L. Grose ScD., has written many works, including his book “…Science But Not Scientists…” (ISBN-13: 978–1425969929). Through that book Dr. Grose copes with the pseudo-science topic and consequently quotes French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912).

I treasure all of Dr. Grose’s books and publications both in hard-copy formats and digitally. On an utter mention to Dr. Strangelove, he verbatim and wrongfully argues that RAND Corporation’s Herman Khan is a “… Polymath Futurist…” When the correct qualifier is that RAND Corporation’s Herman Khan is solely and only a “… Polymath Futurologist…”

In all of his works, Dr. Grose emphatically indicates the instrumentality of unambiguous parlance, clear semantics and right linguistics. Under this preceding instance, he violated scientific lexicography. Hence and paradoxically, Dr. Grose himself is warmly embracing his all-out-rejected pseudo science often.

If a world-class organization were to published, market and sell the “…FUTURIST Magazine…” (http://lnkd.in/dzmKxu2), it would be a gargantuan blunder. Correcting this hyperbolic blunder would bring us to the “…FUTUROLOGIST Magazine…”

In the near future, I just might offer many insidious yet breathtaking notorious examples of excellent scientists engaged in pseudo science without their own noticing.

CONCLUSION: It is universally insane and greatly misleading how prominent scientists, academicians, scholars, intellectuals, erudites, linguists, researchers, engineers, thought leaders, historians, philosophers, authors, CEOs, inventors and statesmen pervasively insist on calling “futurism” and “futurist” what is only “futurology” and “futurologist,” respectively.

There are many literary publications into advanced futures studies, foresight research and scenario planning ─ hugely prestigious ones ─ that indefatigably insist and insist on this outrageously flawed meaning, boldly contradicting the scientific rigorousness of any well-established dictionary in the Western World.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Professional Futurologist
and Entrepreneurial Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

By Cheryl Pellerin — American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2014 – During a winter weekend in Pittsburgh, more than 50 cadets and midshipmen from three service academies sat elbow to elbow at nine round tables in a packed room. They’d been training since November to compete in a pilot program of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency called the Service Academy Cyber Stakes.

Competitors at the Jan. 30-Feb. 2 event ranged from freshmen to seniors, 18 to 24 years old, from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.

DARPA officials said the Defense Department must train 4,000 cybersecurity experts by 2017. Meeting that goal requires building a pipeline for training and education, especially for future officers who will oversee protection of the cyber domain. DARPA had two requirements for the competition: impact to the warfighter and innovation.

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LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 22 THROUGH 23/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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A light switch for pain
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-light-switch-for-pain

World’s most powerful terahertz laser chip
http://www.kurzweilai.net/worlds-most-powerful-terahertz-laser-chip

Are bots taking over Wikipedia?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-bots-taking-over-wikipedia

Gigabit Internet may be coming to 35 US cities
http://www.kurzweilai.net/gigabit-internet-may-be-coming-to-35-us-cities

Stretchable, bendable optical interconnections for body sensors and robotic skin
http://www.kurzweilai.net/stretchable-bendable-optical-inter…botic-skin

New type of MRI ‘whole body’ scan could improve treatment of bone-marrow cancer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-type-of-mri-whole-body-scan-co…row-cancer

Intelligent alien life could be found by 2040, says SETI astronomer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/intelligent-alien-life-could-be-fo…astronomer

Zeroing in on how Alzheimer’s-disease toxins are created
http://www.kurzweilai.net/zeroing-in-on-how-alzheimers-disea…re-created

A drug that can help wipe out reservoirs of cancer cells in bone marrow
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-drug-that-can-help-wipe-out-rese…one-marrow

Apple patents health-and-fitness monitoring headphones
http://www.kurzweilai.net/apple-patents-health-and-fitness-monitoring-headphones

Chips that listen to bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/chips-that-listen-to-bacteria

Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children
http://www.kurzweilai.net/growing-number-of-chemicals-linked…n-children

New multilayer graphene structure allows ‘ultraprecise,’ ‘ultrafast’ water filtering
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-multilayer-graphene-structure-…-filtering

Developing World Surpasses the Developed in Growing GMO Crops

Developing World Surpasses the Developed in Growing GMO Crops

New Battery Technologies May Make EVs Ubiquitous

New Battery Technologies May Make EVs Ubiquitous

A Handheld Device That Can Diagnose Diseases And Drug Resistance In 15 Minutes
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026100/fund-this/a-handheld-devi…15-minutes

A World Without Car Crashes
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/02/world-witho…22919200=1

The cars we’ll be driving in the world of 2050
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131108-what-will-we-be-driving-in-2050

The city of 2050
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23524249

11 Predictions for the World in 2030 That May Sound Outrageous Today but not in the Future.
http://www.ilookforwardto.com/2010/11/10-predictions-for-203…no-lo.html

U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/u-s-intelli…-2030.html

China Factory Data Show Slowdown Risk as Xi Limits Credit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/chinese-man…onths.html

Can Homemade Goods Become The Global Brands Of Tomorrow?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/19/can-homemad…-tomorrow/

America’s Fusion Race With China Is Heating Up, So Why Is Washington Going Cold?
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/02/americas-fusion-race…old/78848/

Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/wearable-computers/

This Ring Scans Text And Reads It Aloud For Visually Impaired People
http://gizmodo.com/this-ring-scans-text-and-reads-it-aloud-f…socialflow

Smart Shoes Could Help Runners Hit Their Stride
http://www.livescience.com/41844-smart-running-shoes-improve-runners-gait.html

‘We need the iPhone of guns’: Will smart guns transform the gun industry?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-gu…story.html

How The Knowledge Economy Is Redefining Work
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026566/leadership-now/how-the-kn…ining-work

Bitcoin Exchange Prices Plummet as Investors Brace for Bankruptcy
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/mtgox-2/

Google prepares 34-city push for ultra-fast Fiber service
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-google-fiber-idUSBREA1I1ZT20140219

Some predict computers will produce a jobless future. Here’s why they’re wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/18…yre-wrong/

Quantum Microscope May Be Able to See Inside Living Cells
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2014/02/Layout.jpeg

Looking ahead: what will the world be like in 2064?
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/world-issues/2014/01/0…-ahead.htm

QUOTATION(S): “…Now, for the first time, we are observing the brain at work in a global manner with such clarity that we should be able to discover the overall programs behind its magnificent powers…”

AND

“…When Queen Victoria was in her prime, an Englishman, Charles Darwin, discovered a fundamental truth that shook mankind so severely that it remains today a matter of extreme distress and massive denial. Darwin realized that life on our planet is not the recent and fixed product of deity-mediated special creation, but has been constantly changing over a long span of time … The paleontologist who followed Darwin have taught us that time has no respect for species. Whole dynasties of life have been swept away and replaced with new ones. More than 65 million years ago, the world was filled with swift, deadly meat-eaters, including huge tyrannosaurs stalking elephant-sized horned dinosaurs and duck-billed herbivores. Flying pterosaurs were as big and heavy as sailplanes. Small, graceful, predaceous dinosaurs had binocular vision, big brains, and grasping hands. After 170 million years of successful evolution, they achieved the height of variation and power. Resplendent and numerous on the fertile Cretaceous plains, how could it be that within a few years they all would be gone forever? This chilling story suggests a ticking clock for humanity, as well; dare we think of our own extinction? There is ticking clock for humanity, and it may be mere seconds before midnight. TOMORROW IS UPON US, AND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE NEW DAY IS FAR, FAR STRANGER THAN MOST PEOPLE DARE TO THINK … Even Darwin did not realize how right he was, or how far evolution will take us. We should not fault Darwin for his lack of vision. Darwin lived in a time when the modern scientific revolution was just beginning. It was also a time of steam engines, gas lamps, and phrenology. Science, in our late 20th century sense, was still a few years away. Yet even today, few nonscientists have more than an inkling of how life evolved or how technologies such as the automobile, the light switch, or the airplane actually work … WE LIVE IN A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY WORLD, WITH LITTLE APPRECIATION FOR HOW THINGS GOT THE WAY THEY ARE…”

AND

“…Man, incurable futurist, is the only traditionalist animal…”

AND

“…A person’s world equates to the size his (her) own vocabulary…”

CITATION(S): “…Wealth is concentrated and portable. MIT faculty and alumni produce as much wealth as all but Twenty-Two Countries In The World…”

AND

“… [The human being] experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty…”

AND

“…Yet the opportunities and challenges do not pause. The forces of change are in fact accelerating as technology, communications, and mobility link us in a blurring and buzzing globalizing world.… The image of this future became clearer when we and 40 executives and thought leaders closely examined five specific technology areas and explored their implications for society, business, and government. We examined biotechnology, cyber-technology, nanotechnology, ubiquitous sensing, and wild cards from science and technology. We asked the thought leaders to apply their projections in five crosscutting areas to identify the key technology convergences that would most affect or disrupt society in 2025: economy and wealth, energy and the environment, health and demographics, infrastructure, and governance .… We learned that the technologies were changing in ways that made traditional distinctions between disciplines and areas of science decreasingly relevant. Biotechnologists regularly describe nano-scale developments. Nanotechnologists apply insights from genome sequencing. Research is spread, enhanced, and stolen with cyber tools. Research will lead to carbon-free or carbon-neutral technologies that disrupt industries and policies. The blurring of boundaries between sciences are creating convergences. Breakthroughs across disciplines are stimulating accelerating insights and applications…”

AND

“…Knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know will soon be obsolete .… The technological developments maturing between now and 2025 and the innovative ways they may be applied reflect an acceleration and shift that can seem both promising and challenging to decision makers. In the Industrial Age, developments in steam power, combustion engines, automobiles, aerospace, and telephony seemed slow to mature – their development and spread required large industrial infrastructures. In the Information Age, developments in bio, nano, cyber, and sensors are possible with a smaller and more differentiated infrastructure, and they are occurring simultaneously around the globe. Global information networks are increasing the pace of this technological innovation. This deeper, more widely spread development of knowledge is different from our recent past and portends further changes .… The convergences of bio, nano, cyber, sensors and wild card technologies are causing even greater acceleration of change. But at the same time, knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know about these technologies and their application rapidly becomes obsolete as it is overtaken by newer discoveries. Our institutions will be challenged to respond to the combination of these technological changes and the many other drivers of change simultaneously. We expect many systems and institutions to be desynchronized by these changes and efforts to resynchronize them will add to the sense of disruption that many people feel .… Many thought leaders we worked with in this effort are highly optimistic. Nearly all who contributed to these findings see technological developments as promising, and as stimuli for new opportunities. At the same time, some cautioned about vulnerabilities and called for leadership and action to address these vulnerabilities before we feel their impact. This report serves as one input to decision makers who can aid us in adapting with the changes and creating our future…”

AND

“… In the mid-1980s a study by Shell suggested that the average corporate survival rate for large company was about half as long as that of a human being. Since then the pressures on firms have increased enormously from all directions ─ with the inevitable result that business life expectancy is reduced still further. Many studies look at the changing composition of key indices and draw attention to the demise of what were often major firms and in their time key innovators. For example, Foster and Kaplan point out that of the 500 companies originally making up the Standard & Poor 500 list in 1957, only 74 remained on the list through to 1977. Of the top 12 companies which make up the Dow Jones Index in 1900 only one ─ General Electric ─ survives today. Even apparently robust giants like IBM, GM or Kodak can suddenly display worrying sings of mortality, whilst for small firms the picture is often considerably worse since they lack the protection of a large resource base … Some firms have had to change dramatically to stay in business. For example, a company founded in the early nineteenth century, which had Wellington boots and toilet paper amongst its product range, is now one of the largest and most successful in the world of telecommunications business. Nokia began life as a lumber company, making the equipment and supplies needed to cut down forests in Finland. It moved through into paper and from there into the ‘paperless office’ world of IT ─ and from there into mobile telephones … Another mobile phone player ─ Vodafone Airtouch ─ grew to its huge size by merging with a firm called Mannesmann which, since its birth in 1870s, has been more commonly associated with the invention and production of steel tubes! TUI owns Thomsom (the travel group) in the UK, and is the largest European travel and tourism services company. Its origins, however, lie in the mines of old Prussia where it was established as a public sector state lead mining and smelting company!…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (21) Step outside the boundaries of the framework’s system when seeking a problem’s solution. (22) Within zillion tiny bets, raise the ante and capture the documented learning through frenzy execution. (23) “…Moonshine…” and “…Skunks-work…” and “…Re-Imagineer…” it all, holding in your mind the motion-picture image that, regardless of the relevance of “…inputs…” and “…outputs,…”, entails that the highest relevance is within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT.

BOOK(S): What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation… by Gary Hamel. ISBN-13: 978–1118120828.

N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH 21/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC 777 Wearable glasses help surgeons view cancer​​​​​​​​ cells in real time http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-glasses-help-surgeons-vie…-real-time

Miniaturized hearing aids that will fit into the ear canal http://www.kurzweilai.net/miniaturized-hearing-aids-that-wil…-ear-canal

DHS, Purdue Develop Social Media Analysis Tool to Monitor Crime http://www.executivegov.com/2014/02/dhs-purdue-develop-socia…1msiI.dpuf

The Global Search for Education: What Israel Did http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_4797810.html

Virgin America Wants To Turn Boring Plane Flights Into Awesome Networking Sessions http://www.businessinsider.com/category/virgin-america

The World’s Most Powerful 3-D Laser Imager http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-…er-imager/

Scientists Create Virtual Brain to Study Neurological Disorders http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/02/16/scientists-create-a-…65956.html

Scientists to create frozen zoos on other planets? http://innovation.uk.msn.com/planet/scientists-to-create-fro…er-planets

Welcome to the Future of Transportation http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/welcome-future-transportation

The Power of Unintentional Collaboration http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-power-of-unintentiona…=sm-direct

‘Hand of God’ Spotted by NASA Space Telescope (Photo) http://www.space.com/24225-hand-of-god-photo-nasa-telescope.…7_18570724

Education is the key to smart security preparation http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/education-is-the-key-…on-1221637

NASA Finds Clues That There’s Flowing Water On Mars http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/10/nasa-finds-…r-on-mars/

The World’s Most Powerful 3-D Laser Imager http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-…er-imager/

Explore 10 trends that offer CIOs the opportunity to shape tomorrow and to transform “business as usual.” http://dupress.com/articles/2014-tech-trends-introduction/?i…awa:021414

Cameras That Can See Through Walls! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLtzilM0epg

Aquaponics: The Answer to California’s Drought? http://www.bloomberg.com/video/aquaponics-the-answer-to-cali…3U_Dw.html

Why the Tiny Home Movement May Not be So Tiny http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/02/why-the-tiny-home-mov…e-so-tiny/

A termite-inspired robot construction team http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-termite-inspired-robot-construction-team

Helping robots collaborate http://www.kurzweilai.net/herding-robots

Robots with insect brains http://www.kurzweilai.net/robots-with-insect-brains

Four new galaxy clusters discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth http://www.kurzweilai.net/four-new-galaxy-clusters-discovere…from-earth

What makes us human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205212015.ht…ce+News%29

5 (Relatively Simple) Steps To B2B Social Media Marketing Success http://www.fastcompany.com/3026450/dialed/5-relativity-simpl…Company%29

Q&A: What studying networks can tell us about the world and ourselves http://news.yale.edu/2014/02/11/qa-what-studying-networks-ca…-ourselves

Iran proposes joint naval exercise with Russia. Show of strength as interim nuclear deal takes effect http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2014/02/14/iran-proposes-joint-na…4fUpi.dpuf

Chronic Pain Common in Teens with Mental Health Problems http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/chronic-pai…23025.html

Is truth stranger than fiction? Yes, especially for science fiction http://phys.org/news/2014-02-truth-stranger-fiction-science.html

The Future of Work by 2020 http://www.elsua.net/2013/05/22/the-future-of-work-by-2020/

Personalized medicine by 2020 and other futuristic healthcare predictions (infographic) http://medcitynews.com/2012/08/personalized-medicine-by-2020…z2tLx3xLZP

NASA Invites Private Companies To The Moon http://www.popsci.com/article/science/nasa-invites-private-companies-moon

How The Internet Of Things Is More Like The Industrial Revolution Than The Digital Revolution http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2014/02/10/more-1876-than-1995/

Atheer Glasses, the Best Way to Experience the Future http://arabnet.me/atheer-glasses-best-way-experience-future/

Next-Gen Nanotech Breath Sensor Could Change How We Monitor Health http://www.medgadget.com/2013/10/hold-next-gen-nanotech-sens…ealth.html

Will your clothing spy on you? http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/will-your-clothing-sp…ign=buffer

Two Female VCs Launch Silicon Valley Firm To Show Diversity Equals Profit http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026479/two-female-vcs-launch-sil…als-profit

How to Adjust to the Silver-Tsunami of Working Baby Boomers? http://synecticsworld.com/how-to-adjust-to-the-silver-tsunam…t=3977617#

Colonialism’s Enduring Dividends. Why European Companies Have an Advantage in Emerging Markets http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140776/bhaskar-chakra…-dividends

Ad Infinitum. ‘Our Mathematical Universe,’ by Max Tegmark. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/our-mathemati.…html?_r=0

Yahoo’s Mayer Views 2014 as Tech ‘Tipping Point’ http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/yahoos-mayer-2014-tip…echnology/

Social platform for sharing cyberthreat intell goes live http://gcn.com/articles/2014/02/11/activetrust.aspx

QUOTATION(S): “…The forces shaping your future are digital [and mathematical], and you need to understand them…” AND “…You can’t understand the knot without understanding the strands, but in the future, the strands need not remain tied up in the same way as they are today…” AND “…ALL CHILDREN ARE BORN GENIUSES; 9,999 OUT OF EVERY 10,000 ARE SWIFTLY, INADVERTENTLY DEGENIUNIZED BY GROWNUPS…” AND “…Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020 .… We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are ‘things’ outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not .… We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body…” AND “…People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn’t…”

CITATION(S): “…We have the Internet that we have today because the Internet of yesterday did not focus on the today of yesterday…” AND “…Legal scholars can debate whether copyright law mandates a future of ‘authorized use only’ for digital information. The answer may not matter much, because that future is coming to pass through the technologies of digital rights management and trusted systems…” AND “…Can we envision the future transcontinental flights, where books, music, images, and videos are automatically extracted, sampled, mixed, and remixed; fed into massive automated reasoning engines; assimilated into the core software of every personal computer and every cell phone ─ and thousands of other things for which the words don’t even exist yet?…” AND “…Governments of the Industrial World, your weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You have no so sovereignty where we gather .… We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity … In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits .… [Y]ou are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (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. BOOK(S): A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink (ISBN-13: 978–1594481710).

N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini

Risk-Management Futurist and Success Consultant

http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

The Future of Omniscient Scenario-Planning Methodology, Today! By Mr. Andres Agostini

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This is a personal yet summarized and copyrighted P.O.V. that is professional, thorough and complete. This independent exploration is based on 30 years of stern practical experience and expertise.

When I was 25 I was fully introduced and indoctrinated on worldwide Royal Dutch Shell’s scenario-planning methodology by Shell’s nationalized company Maraven. That introduction and indoctrination came through the kind deeds and executive decision of and by Maraven President, Dr. Carlos Castillo and the high-ranking strategic planners under his command.

The view and application of scenario-planning methodology by Maraven, as well as the several-weeks training to me, also included all theoretical and practical quality-assurance and continuous-improvement prescriptions by: Dr. W. Edwards Deming, Dr. Joseph Juran, Mr. Bill Conway, U.S. Navy, Kaisen and Hitachi.

With serious quality assurance and continuous improvement, one must exercise (like in scenario-planning contexts) great foresight and learning in advance in order to eliminate forthcoming “defects” or “flaws,” leaving leeway to countermeasure unknonwables.

All of my Maraven training included all of the preceding. Maraven was a created and an acculturated full-scope petroleum company by Shell and then under the absolute tutelage and management control of state-owned PDVSA (Citgo’s parent company).

Maraven was affluently thriving in worldwide markets while applying scenario-planning methodology as it was exactly conceived, designed and executed by Pierre Wack (an unconventional French oil executive who was the first to develop the use of scenario planning in the private sector, at Royal Dutch Shell’s London headquarters in the 1970s.)

Wack is the father of scenario planning in the private sector. For more details on this noted Guru, go to the Economist at http://www.economist.com/node/12000502 .

Wack’s public writings are meager and kept under the intellectual ownership of Shell. Wack’s methodological heir was Honorable Mr. Peter Schwartz, a previous Shell executive, the former Chairman of Global Business Network (www.gbn.com) and author of the groundbreaking book on scenario planning: “…The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World…” (ISBN-13: 978–1863160995).

Wack and Schwartz are the greatest proponents of 3-scenario analysis. In my case, I institute “…hazard scenario planning…” and the number of plausible and implausible outputted thought-through “outlooks” (scenarios) are only limited by the designated budget by the Client.

I am going to explain what “ouput” means in Systems Engineering. You have the Systems Transformational “Box,” throughputting (marshaling) from “known inputs” into “desirable outputs” (from sustainable successful outcomes into fiscally sound and continuous growth).

BUT, FOR A LONG TIME UNTIL YEAR 1999, I HAD A REVOLVING QUESTION: WHERE DOES THE EXACT AND MOST UNDERLYING GENESIS OF SCENARIO PLANNING REALLY COME FROM? EXACTLY, WHAT IS THE OUTRIGHT ORIGIN? When I study contemporary authors I always wonder if I can find the actual “root” philosopher, scientist and thought leader that first and originally brought about an idea, notion, maxim, theory, approach or breakthrough.

For instance, former U.S. Secretary of State and conspicuous American self-help author Napoleon Hill got his first name and success tenets after and from (respectively) Napoleon Bonaparte. I research the works by the original ones first and then I might check out the works by the contemporary versions afterward.

COMING BACK TO THE MAIN SUBJECT MATTER, I finally founded out that scenario planning was developed by the U.S. during the 1950’s and while great existential challenges were threatening the country’s National Security doctrine as a direct result of the Cold War (1947–1991).

In consequence, I knew the exact and primordial, in-all-truth root and understood that DoD (1789 — present), DARPA (1958 — present), NASA (1958 — present) and Military-Industrial Complex (1961 — present) and other agencies and private contractors (including Skunkworks ones) were the founding fathers of advanced scenario-planning methodology.

Many scientists and engineers worked extremely hard at it, including NASA’s Dr. Wernher von Braun[1] and the plethora of elitist scientists collaborating with him. Elites can sometimes serve the public interest at large handsomely. But the gravest inflection point came by the Sputnik Crisis (also known as the “Sputnik Moment,” that is: a large Geo-strategic surprise). Many companies go under because of the strategic surprises inflicted by them either by smarter competitors or novel technologies.

From this point onward, one finds the salient research by RAND Corporation’s polymath futurist Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983). To give you an idea on Kahn’s intellectual mind-set style, please check these clear-eyed assertions by him: “…I’m against ignorance…I am against the whole cliché of the moment…I’m against fashionable thinking…I’m against sloppy, emotional thinking…” [2] .

Comparatively and interestingly enough, the United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld argued, “…Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don’t know…”

But many years before the “… unknown unknowns…” conjecture by Rumsfeld, Khan was the ultimate pioneer in superseding “…the unthinkable…” This by Khan is one of the pillars of Transformative and Integrative Risk Management and The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

He did offer a theoretical body and practical and downright mode of approaching its theory. The most important global institutions of the world, into profit or not, are into stern “the unthinkable” discerning, beginning with those of us into advanced beyond-insurance risk management and strategy.

Let’s explore Khan’s background now. Wikipedia’s citation [3] on “…the unthinkable…” polymath futurist is extremely educational. An excerpt of this citation indicates:

“…Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally come to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him an inspiration for the title character of Stanley Kubrick’s classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.…Kahn’s major contributions were the several strategies he developed during the Cold War to contemplate ‘the unthinkable’ – namely, nuclear warfare – by using applications of game theory. …Most notably, KAHN IS OFTEN CITED AS THE FATHER OF SCENARIO PLANNING…”

CONCLUSIONS:

Given all of the prior, I understand and summon the following:

1.- Scenario planning, also called scenario thinking or scenario analysis, is a strategic planning method that some organizations use to make flexible long-term plans. It is in large part an adaptation and generalization of classic methods used by military intelligence, government agencies and entities, NGOs, business enterprises and supranationals. Nonetheless, scenario planning as per Wack and Khan is breathtaking but in itself does not suffice in contemporary times.

2.- Along with item “1.-” before, there is also the concomitant application of 2.1.- Systems Theory, 2.2.- Game Theory, 2.3.- Wargaming Theory and 2.4.- Many other modes of practical strategic thinking and strategic execution. By example, Game Theory and Wargaming Theory ─ both under the Systems Thinking Approach ─ are extremely well addressed by Dr. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, PhD.

You may wish to explored his book: “The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future” (ISBN-13: 978–0812979770).

To me Napoleon Bonaparte is the greeters Systems Thinker ever beyond any epic military campaign. If you are hesitant about it, please ask systems engineers, physicists, other scholars and managers, as well as prominent historians. 80% of the teaching by Bonaparte are taught in all U.S. Military Academies. In my case and as per my own experience, NASA-beloved Leonado Da Vinci’s publications can be an over-learning device for the radiant prepared-mind crafting lucid scenarios irradiantly.

3.- With “1.-” and “2.-” in place, there is also the application of Compound Forecasting without the ruling out of the vast computing calculation and transformation from narrative data into numerical data.

I have many professional reasons to state that I use 70% of Qualitative Analytics and 30% of Quantitative Analytics. Algorithms don’t outsmart the biological brain yet. By year 2000, before the Dawn of Strong Big Data, the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) CEO, Mr. Roger Brown and me were experimenting with seizing an optimal computerized reading pertaining to the “success-likelihood ratio” of a major business initiative to be jointly launched by our respective interests. This was another way of “futuring” that resulted exceedingly interesting and educational back then.

4.- In addition to all posited in “1.-”, “2.-” and “3.-” above, it is, too, highly advisable the concurrent implementation of other practical methodologies of and by 4.1.- Futures Studies and 4.2.- Foresight Research. There are several proprietary approaches that cannot be disclosed here.

5.- All numbered items above and in a rogue yet subtle search and recursive exploration of the totality of the whole (by holistic means), everything there must be seamlessly coalesced, integrated and instituted in accordance with Systems Thinking with the Systemic and Systematic Applied Omniscience Perspective as it is understood both by Applied Engineers and Physicists. Said “Omniscience” as it is chiefly understood by “Exact Science” Scientists.

All stakeholders always institute all the approaches hereby in order to avoid disruption potentials. One of the world’s best and more authoritative examples is NASA and everything by it. For decades, NASA has been developing beyond-insurance risk management technologies and services for its own initiatives, projects and missions, as well as for august global corporations.

In the Summer of 2013, an American group of oil-and-gas corporations that operate globally asked NASA for a “…Space-Age Risk Management…” service to them as it was made official in a NASA own Press Release at http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2013/J13-014.html

Kindly please remember that Risk Management is neither taking calculated risks in Wall Streets (or any stock market), nor managing “challenges” by insurance and reinsurance companies only. Beyond-Insurance Risk Management is, in all actuality, OPTIMAL MANAGEMENT PER SE to greatly exploit upsides and downsides before they happen.

Ergo, Transformative and Integrative Risk Management is a proprietary methodology to practically solved complicated and complex problems by the targeted organization. Beyond-Insurance Risk Management or “…Transformative and Integrative Risk Management…” is, by far and by way of example, much more than Beyond-”…Sarbanes–Oxley Act…” Risk Management.

You see, “reinsurance” is a fancy term that equates to amount sums of “…insurance purchased by and for insurance companies…” If a tiny or gargantuan insurance company instituted Transformative and Integrative Risk Management, said insurance company would not need at all to buy any reinsurance “protection” or so-called “cover.”

6.- There are many leading government agencies and entities, NGOs, global corporations and supranationals that, since many years now, apply everything above in parallel (simultaneously, cohesively and congruently). This is, for instance, under universal application by agencies and business enterprises into Aerospace and Defense.

Institutions ─ that I have worked with that make forceful efforts towards avant-garde “scenario planing” and Transformative and Integrative Risk Management ─ encompass: Toyota, Mitsubishi, World Bank, Shell, Statoil, Total, Exxon, Mobil, PDVSA/Citgo, GE, GMAC, TNT Express, GTE, Amoco, BP, Abbot Laboratories, World Health Organization, Ernst Young Consulting, SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation), Pak Mail, Wilpro Energy Services, Phillips Petroleum Company, Dupont, Conoco, ENI (Italy’s petroleum state-owned firm), Chevron, and LDG Management (HCC Benefits).

7.- MANY PROFESSIONAL FUTURISTS AND OTHER SCIENTISTS AND ENTREPRENEURS HAVE FORMIDABLE NOTIONS AND FORESIGHTED IDEAS BUT GRAVELY LACK THE DIRECT EXPERIENCE AND EMPIRIC YET PROVEN WOMB-TO-TOMB METHODS IN PRAGMATICALLY MANAGING A DANGEROUS CORPORATE THEATER OF OPERATIONS (FRAMEWORK).

To find out more about relentless Scenario-Planning Methodology and Transformative and Integrative Risk Management, you are most welcome to consider the (republished by the Lifeboat Foundation and Forward Metrics) interview at http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC .

REFERENCES:

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

[2] http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/herman_kahn.html

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kahn

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini

Risk-Management Futurist

and Success Consultant

http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

THE OMNISCIENT TRUTH ABOUT OUTER-SPACE INTELLIGENCE AND WHAT THE OFFICIAL ESTABLISHMENT HAS TO DECLARE ABOUT IT! BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI.

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I have the glory to have read every book by Dr. Raymond Kurzweil with the sole exception of “Transcend.”

Dr. Kurzweil is an engineer graduate from grandiose M.I.T. (the technological avant-garde within the Ivy League universities).

Beyond his many inventions, patents, and scientific breakthroughs and discoveries, please remember that Ray holds 19 doctoral degrees among many other amenities.

I exactly relish the way he exercises his mind. And instead of fighting sourly against his contrarians, he kindly and respectfully invites them to lavishly publish the opposing views on books and blogs.

Ray is a pervasive sage by any known or unknown measure. He is now the Chief Engineer Officer at Google and the Chairman of the Singularity University (founded by him with the institutional backing of NASA and Google).

We all like the Founding Fathers, especially Jefferson and Franklin. But tons of Americans and others seem to frequently and prevalently ignore this Hi-Tech Founding Father.

Within his duties at Google, he is embarked into the greatest scientific advancement in order to transform any illness or biological cause of death (natural death) into a superseded cure (outright state of well-being), radically.

HE IS INTO STRINGENT R&D&I TO MAKE HUMAN DEATH A THING OF THE PAST.

I also argue that he will be auspiciously fighting against challenges and problems in order to systemically and systematically reverse-engineer biology and the human brain with the utter purpose of seizing the correct software templates for Strongest Quantum Supercomputing.

In “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology” (ISBN-13: 978–0143037880) book, Ray argues that most extraterrestrial beings might, just might, exhibit a grayish look because they are the trans-exobiologicals stemming from [outer-space and infinitely beyond] advanced exobiological civilizations.

Trans-exobiologicals are exobiologicals who have transcended their own exobiology.

Having said that and since the advent of his landmark book (I wish all fact-driven books were written like this canonical marvel), he has given many interviews and speeches about The Technological Singularity.

As a process of that, one day Ray ended up giving a seminal keynote to the upper management and scientists at SETI Institute. SETI, an American Organization, stands for Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

Conversely, the about one-hour talk was about the Technological Singularity and the Law of Accelerating Returns as it posited by Ray himself.

Towards the end of the keynote, one or two SETI scientists told Ray that, as per their own research, they were considering as a probable and plausible scenario to be that extraterrestrials’ domicile was within the immeasurable limits of Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

The original and official YouTube video published by SETI is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6hU4lS9_kI

In the mean time, kindly please have a lot of educational and propitious fun in ignored flanks both in Computronium and the Omniverse.

Mr. Andres Agostini

www.linkedin.com/in/andresagostini

The Future of Space-Age Risk Management: Transformative and Integrative Risk Management!. https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/03/omniscentia

http://ThisSuccess.wordpress.com

AS A CONSULTANT, MANAGER, STRATEGIST AND RESEARCHER, ANDRES WORKS AND HAS WORKED WITH INSTITUTIONS ─ AND THE RESPECTIVE EXECUTIVES OF SAID ORGANIZATIONS ─ SUCH AS:

► Toyota,

► Mitsubishi,

► World Bank,

► Shell,

► Statoil,

► Total,

► Exxon,

► Mobil,

► PDVSA, Citgo,

► GE,

► GMAC,

► TNT Express,

► AT&T

► GTE,

► Amoco,

► BP,

► Abbot Laboratories,

► World Health Organization,

► Ernst Young Consulting,

► SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation),

► Pak Mail,

► Wilpro Energy Services,

► Phillips Petroleum Company,

► Dupont,

► Conoco,

► ENI (Italy’s petroleum state-owned firm),

► Chevron,

► LDG Management (HCC Benefits).

FEBRUARY 15 AND 16/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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New live-cell printing technology improves on inkjet printing
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-live-cell-printing-technology-…t-printing

Capturing ultrasharp images of multiple cell components simultaneously
http://www.kurzweilai.net/capturing-ultrasharp-images-of-mul…ltaneously

Red-light-sensitive protein discovery enables more complex studies of neuron interactions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/red-light-sensitive-protein-discov…teractions

New self-healing polymers require no chemicals or catalysts
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-self-healing-polymers-require-…-catalysts

First map of core white-matter connections of human brain developed at USC
http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-map-of-core-white-matter-con…ped-at-usc

Futurists Explore the Next Horizon
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2013-issues-futurist/november-de…xt-horizon

6 key trends that are accelerating the adoption of technology in higher education
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/11/6-key-trends-that-are-ac…education/

Silicon Valley’s Next Big Goal: Fixing Our Broken Food System
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025602/rebuilding-big-food-agloc…vest-power

5 Famous Entrepreneurs Who Learned From Their First Spectacular Failures
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026253/dialed/5-famous-entrepren…r-failures

Can Creativity Really Be Taught?
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026327/leadership-now/can-creati…-be-taught

Belgian law on euthanasia for children, with no age limit, will be first in world
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/belgium-legalis…CMP=twt_gu

This Google exec’s success shows how it pays off to invest in talent
http://qz.com/176195/this-google-execs-success-shows-how-it-…in-talent/

Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel, researchers report
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-plastic-bags-fine-diesel-fuel.html

China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ lunar rover declared dead: media
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-china-jade-rabbit-lunar-rover.html

Stirring-up atomtronics in a quantum circuit
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-stirring-up-atomtronics-quantum-circuit.html

Studio diip creates a fish-driven robot
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…robot.aspx

Far-reaching radars, laser-guided rockets and powerful new sensors are taking center stage this week as Raytheon shows off its latest technology at the Singapore Airshow.
http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn14_singapore/index.html

Can’t Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/cant-find-a-steve-jobs-hire-an-…Socialflow

Strange Star Chemistry May Reveal Secrets of Planetary Disks
http://www.space.com/24666-strange-star-chemistry-planet-for…3_18478324

Android’s ‘Open’ System Has Limits
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230488840457937…html?dsk=y

Asian Stocks Drop After Longest Streak of Gains This Year
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/asian-stock…-year.html

Prediction: In the next 25 years [timeline year 2035], synthetic biology — the creation of life from nonliving chemicals designed on a computer — could produce thousands of synthetic genomes and life-forms not yet imagine
http://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/january-february-2012-vo…redictions

World’s first genetically modified babies born
http://thechangewithin.net/2014/02/07/worlds-first-genetical…bies-born/

World asleep as China tightens deflationary vice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/10634339/World-as…-vice.html

Russia Tests “Total Surveillance” at the Sochi Olympics
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/02/14/russia-tests-total-survei…mpics.html

The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway

The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway

Microsoft’s new task force will tackle Internet of Things and wearable tech
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-s-new-task-…ch-1223902

Psychologists Predict The Demise of Social Networks
http://socialtimes.com/psychologists-predict-demise-social-networks_b142473

Disillusioned hedonist shoppers
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/02/luxury-goods-market

This Is What Your Face Will Look Like In 2060
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026290/futurist-forum/this-is-wh…ke-in-2060

A Glimpse At The Mind-Reading Office Of The Future
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024164/a-glimpse-inside-the-office-of-the-future

Awesome, Immersive Exhibition Shows How Architecture Can Shape Your Senses
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/brilliant-new-ways-experience-archtiecture/

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are
http://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-spacecraft-could-be-made-of-the…1521614272

It’s official: Apple sells more computers than all Windows PCs combined
http://qz.com/176643/its-official-apple-sells-more-computers…-combined/

Why Google Is Investing In Deep Learning
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026423/why-google-is-investing-in-deep-learning

Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
http://techonomy.com/2014/02/surround-computing-change-lives/

We’re One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion Energy
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/fusion-power-not-yet/

Stop “Fixing” Women and Start Fixing Managers
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/stop-fixing-women-and-start-fix…Socialflow

Singapore is becoming a favorite stop for China’s top tech firms
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/02/13/singapore-is-becoming-…ce=Twitter

Cybersecurity guidelines for companies are unveiled by White House
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cyber-security-20140213,0,3027325.story#ixzz2tBH36ygw

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, #H2H

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, H2H

Facebook Testing ‘Water Taxi’ to Shuttle Employees From San Francisco
http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/facebook-ferry/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

A future cochlear implant with no exterior hardware required
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-future-cochlear-implant-with-no-…e-required

Scientists achieve fuel gain exceeding unity in confined fusion implosion
http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-achieve-fuel-gain-excee…-implosion

Your virtual avatar can impact your real-world behavior, researchers suggest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/your-virtual-avatar-can-impact-you…rs-suggest

Here’s the enormous hangar Google bought to fill with robots
http://qz.com/176551/heres-the-enormous-hangar-google-bought…th-robots/

45 Million Smartwatches Expected to Ship by 2017
http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/

The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-lasers-fuellin…24237.html

Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome

Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome

QUOTATION(S): “…If you are not failing frequently, you are not succeeding enough…” AND “…Denial is tragic. Delay is deadly …” AND “…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.…” AND “…To solve a very complicated problem, you generally need a fairly complicated solution [in advance]…”

CITATION(S): “…Funny thing, our mind. The moment our software catches up, the mind seems to travel beyond the capability of the software .… [However,] Our minds focus on renditions, darling, not the underlying algorithm. Your analysts and programmers have to deal with algorithm that produces new renditions…” AND “…In a few hundred years, when the story of our [current] time is written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce [not ‘social media’ ─ so-called]. IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE IN THE HUMAN CONDITION. FOR THE FIRST TIME ─ LITERALLY ─ SUBSTANTIAL AND GROWING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE CHOICES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEY WILL HAVE TO MANAGE THEMSELVES. AND SOCIETY IS TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR IT…” AND “…The political world promises change and the digital world delivers it. And when that change potentially affects our privacy and freedom, we should all pay attention. This is a fascinating, provocative and thoroughly readable look into an uncertain future…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (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, Churchill, 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 Gedanke-motorized judgment (that is to say: Einsteinian Gedanke [“…thought experiments…”]. (15) Provide a road-map / 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 embedded in organizations, create support for, and carry out transformational initiatives.

BOOK(S): Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. ISBN-13: 978–1605292076

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

New live-cell printing technology improves on inkjet printing
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-live-cell-printing-technology-…t-printing

Capturing ultrasharp images of multiple cell components simultaneously
http://www.kurzweilai.net/capturing-ultrasharp-images-of-mul…ltaneously

Red-light-sensitive protein discovery enables more complex studies of neuron interactions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/red-light-sensitive-protein-discov…teractions

New self-healing polymers require no chemicals or catalysts
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-self-healing-polymers-require-…-catalysts

First map of core white-matter connections of human brain developed at USC
http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-map-of-core-white-matter-con…ped-at-usc

Futurists Explore the Next Horizon
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2013-issues-futurist/november-de…xt-horizon

6 key trends that are accelerating the adoption of technology in higher education
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/11/6-key-trends-that-are-ac…education/

Silicon Valley’s Next Big Goal: Fixing Our Broken Food System
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025602/rebuilding-big-food-agloc…vest-power

5 Famous Entrepreneurs Who Learned From Their First Spectacular Failures
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026253/dialed/5-famous-entrepren…r-failures

Can Creativity Really Be Taught?
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026327/leadership-now/can-creati…-be-taught

Belgian law on euthanasia for children, with no age limit, will be first in world
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/belgium-legalis…CMP=twt_gu

This Google exec’s success shows how it pays off to invest in talent
http://qz.com/176195/this-google-execs-success-shows-how-it-…in-talent/

Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel, researchers report
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-plastic-bags-fine-diesel-fuel.html

China’s ‘Jade Rabbit’ lunar rover declared dead: media
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-china-jade-rabbit-lunar-rover.html

Stirring-up atomtronics in a quantum circuit
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-stirring-up-atomtronics-quantum-circuit.html

Studio diip creates a fish-driven robot
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…robot.aspx

Far-reaching radars, laser-guided rockets and powerful new sensors are taking center stage this week as Raytheon shows off its latest technology at the Singapore Airshow.
http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn14_singapore/index.html

Can’t Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/cant-find-a-steve-jobs-hire-an-…Socialflow

Strange Star Chemistry May Reveal Secrets of Planetary Disks
http://www.space.com/24666-strange-star-chemistry-planet-for…3_18478324

Android’s ‘Open’ System Has Limits
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230488840457937…html?dsk=y

Asian Stocks Drop After Longest Streak of Gains This Year
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/asian-stock…-year.html

Prediction: In the next 25 years [timeline year 2035], synthetic biology — the creation of life from nonliving chemicals designed on a computer — could produce thousands of synthetic genomes and life-forms not yet imagine
http://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/january-february-2012-vo…redictions

World’s first genetically modified babies born
http://thechangewithin.net/2014/02/07/worlds-first-genetical…bies-born/

World asleep as China tightens deflationary vice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/10634339/World-as…-vice.html

Russia Tests “Total Surveillance” at the Sochi Olympics
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/02/14/russia-tests-total-survei…mpics.html

The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway

The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway

Microsoft’s new task force will tackle Internet of Things and wearable tech
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-s-new-task-…ch-1223902

Psychologists Predict The Demise of Social Networks
http://socialtimes.com/psychologists-predict-demise-social-networks_b142473

Disillusioned hedonist shoppers
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/02/luxury-goods-market

This Is What Your Face Will Look Like In 2060
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026290/futurist-forum/this-is-wh…ke-in-2060

A Glimpse At The Mind-Reading Office Of The Future
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024164/a-glimpse-inside-the-office-of-the-future

Awesome, Immersive Exhibition Shows How Architecture Can Shape Your Senses
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/brilliant-new-ways-experience-archtiecture/

Tomorrow’s Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are
http://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-spacecraft-could-be-made-of-the…1521614272

It’s official: Apple sells more computers than all Windows PCs combined
http://qz.com/176643/its-official-apple-sells-more-computers…-combined/

Why Google Is Investing In Deep Learning
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026423/why-google-is-investing-in-deep-learning

Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
http://techonomy.com/2014/02/surround-computing-change-lives/

We’re One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion Energy
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/fusion-power-not-yet/

Stop “Fixing” Women and Start Fixing Managers
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/stop-fixing-women-and-start-fix…Socialflow

Singapore is becoming a favorite stop for China’s top tech firms
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/02/13/singapore-is-becoming-…ce=Twitter

Cybersecurity guidelines for companies are unveiled by White House
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cyber-security-20140213,0,3027325.story#ixzz2tBH36ygw

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, #H2H

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, H2H

Facebook Testing ‘Water Taxi’ to Shuttle Employees From San Francisco
http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/facebook-ferry/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

A future cochlear implant with no exterior hardware required
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-future-cochlear-implant-with-no-…e-required

Scientists achieve fuel gain exceeding unity in confined fusion implosion
http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-achieve-fuel-gain-excee…-implosion

Your virtual avatar can impact your real-world behavior, researchers suggest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/your-virtual-avatar-can-impact-you…rs-suggest

Here’s the enormous hangar Google bought to fill with robots
http://qz.com/176551/heres-the-enormous-hangar-google-bought…th-robots/

45 Million Smartwatches Expected to Ship by 2017
http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/

The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-lasers-fuellin…24237.html

Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome

Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome

QUOTATION(S): “…If you are not failing frequently, you are not succeeding enough…” AND “…Denial is tragic. Delay is deadly …” AND “…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.…” AND “…To solve a very complicated problem, you generally need a fairly complicated solution [in advance]…”

CITATION(S): “…Funny thing, our mind. The moment our software catches up, the mind seems to travel beyond the capability of the software .… [However,] Our minds focus on renditions, darling, not the underlying algorithm. Your analysts and programmers have to deal with algorithm that produces new renditions…” AND “…In a few hundred years, when the story of our [current] time is written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce [not ‘social media’ ─ so-called]. IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE IN THE HUMAN CONDITION. FOR THE FIRST TIME ─ LITERALLY ─ SUBSTANTIAL AND GROWING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE CHOICES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEY WILL HAVE TO MANAGE THEMSELVES. AND SOCIETY IS TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR IT…” AND “…The political world promises change and the digital world delivers it. And when that change potentially affects our privacy and freedom, we should all pay attention. This is a fascinating, provocative and thoroughly readable look into an uncertain future…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (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, Churchill, 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 Gedanke-motorized judgment (that is to say: Einsteinian Gedanke [“…thought experiments…”]. (15) Provide a road-map / 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 embedded in organizations, create support for, and carry out transformational initiatives.

BOOK(S): Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. ISBN-13: 978–1605292076

FEBRUARY 13/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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Is your boss watching you? Surveillance device tracks employees’ movements in the office, sends details of conversations and even times their toilet breaks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552858/Workp…oilet.html

New software lets you mark places as off-limits for wearable camera gadgets like Google Glass.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523941/not-ok-glass/

Seeing as a Service. Forget Augmented Reality. What About Diminished Reality?
https://medium.com/futures-exchange/403771297f5f

Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars
http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2014/02/4.htm#.UvpE9oWGiHd

Africa: the sun rises on the next exploration hot spot
http://business-reporter.co.uk/2014/02/africa-the-sun-rises-…-hot-spot/

NSA failed to detect Snowden’s unsophisticated insider attack
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214065/NSA-failed-to-…der-attack

Inside Intel: Pay for Performance Questioned
http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/02/11/inside-int…uestioned/

Trustworthy Computing
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/twc/privacy/data-governance.aspx

4 Benefits of Sales Gamification
http://www.inc.com/4-reasons-sales-gamification-works.html

Rotavirus Vaccines — Balancing Intussusception Risks and Health Benefits
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1315836

Technology Vision 2014: Become a Digital Disruptor

The sun’s violent insides revealed: Iris probe takes a detailed look beneath the star’s surface
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2556638/The-s…z2t1w6yxeD

How Startups Can Tap Into Google’s Secret Sauce: OKRs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231202#ixzz2t1wLmajI

Statement for the Record — Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/testimonies/203-congre…um=twitter

Special Operations Command Wants X-Prize to Develop ‘Iron Man’ Suit
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post…ek.twitter

Has America lost its ability to dream big?
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/11/peter-thiel-has-ame…dream-big/

Google on NSA: We Need Rules, Transparency and Oversight
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/google-nsa-protests/

New Processor to Bring High-End Features to Cheap Smartphones
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/arm-cortex-a17-mediatek/

NASA, Deloitte To Bring Space-Age Risk Management To Oil And Gas Industry
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2013/J13&#…vpPzIWGiHc

Google-Backed Asteroid Mining Venture Attracts Billionaires
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/google-back…stors.html

Tech Investor to Entrepreneurs: A Harvard Degree Is a Liability

Raytheon receives $31 million Maverick missile contract from South Korea
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2518

What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/11/what-cold-w…nazis.html

Would Bill Gates Artificially Prolong His Life? His Surprising (And Inspiring) Answer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/bill-gates-reddit-2…mg00000046

How Bill Gates Radically Transformed His Public Speaking And Communication Skills
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2014/02/07/how-bill…ium=social

How to Get Investors to Move Faster
http://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/playbook-speeding-up-investors.html?cid=sf01001

The Myth of Similar Successful Qualities
http://editorialiv.com/2014/01/19/the-myth-of-similar-successful-qualities/

Unconventional Energy and U.S. National Security: A Conversation on Energy and Security

5 Attributes to Look for in High-Performing Employees
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231383#ixzz2t2794ydq

PayPal President’s credit card hacked for shopping spree
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/10/paypal-ceo-cre…d/5367979/

Let One Good Thing Lead To Another
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211050133&#…st-small_1

Innovating at Scale: Building Trust
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211161638&#4…st-small_3

Corporate Social Responsibility’s New Role in the Middle East
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00234?rssid=all_updates&gko=b365d

Moving from novice techie to Subject Matter Expert
http://www.itworld.com/career/404383/moving-novice-techie-subject-matter-expert

How To Get Your Employees to Think Strategically
http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-foster-strategic-thi…oyees.html

Is The Corporate Website Dead?
http://www.b2bmarketinginsider.com/content-marketing/corporate-website-dead

New advance in 3-D printing and tissue engineering technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140210184719.htm

HHS to fund development of drug for bioterrorism, antimicrobial-resistant infections
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140210-hhs-to-fu…infections

Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140211084051.htm

Three things Bill Gates wishes he could have done 20 years ago
http://qz.com/175616/three-things-bill-gates-wishes-he-could…years-ago/

QUOTATION(S): “…People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn’t…” AND “…The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, BUT HOW TO GET OLD ONES OUT …”

CITATION(S): “…We live in strange times, in case you have not noticed. Here we are with our home computers and other high-tech appliances, living what we regard as a normal life … The world we are living in ─ a world that couples Homo sapiens with fast-paced hypertechnology ─ is strange to us because sometimes it feels like what it is, a transient dream .… We are dreaming a strange, waking dream; an inevitably brief interlude sandwiched between the long age of low-tech humanity on the one hand, and the age of human beings transcended on the other. We are living in the latter days of humanity; cybertechnologies will quickly replace us. Just inches of time away exists a speedy reality bearing down on us that we may sense, but do not show on our faces .… While one may be made uncomfortable by the thought of a truly strange 21st century, there is around us an impending sense of arrival ─ a strangeness in the air, an uneasiness, a feeling that deep down, things are starting to change in swift, fundamental ways too fuzzy to put a finger on. More than just the onset of the third millennium, it is the quiet before the storm. The products of technology are becoming more curious ─ a little too smart, a little too fast. It’s downright unsettling. And, hey, people aren’t dumb. They know that we have just begun to build smart dumb machines; soon it will be dumb smart machines. Where will it stop? If we continue to build machines smarter than the last ones, and then one that is smarter than that and so on ─ well, you do not have to be a particle physicist to see that the machines cannot keep getting smarter and smarter, yet forever remain dumber than us. Garry ‘John Henry’ Kasparov, chess Grand Master, lost a championship game to a machine for the first time in history this year. Perhaps someday, we’ll hear the battle cry of humanity rallying in desperation: ‘Remember Deep Blue’…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPAL (TENETS) TO SEIZE PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (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.

BOOK(S): The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. ISBN-13: 978–0393339758

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC