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The Future May Be Getting Close to Reality in Vancouver, With D-Wave and General Fusion

By Liz Gannes — Re/Code

Vancouver is a land of scenic harbors, tall mountains and startups trying to harness the limits of physics.

In town for the TED conference, I had the occasion to visit two such companies yesterday: D-Wave and General Fusion. D-Wave, a quantum computing company, is all about the very cold and the rather tiny. It has built enormous refrigerators that each house a single chip, laced with “qubits” that can be in the superposition of both 1 and 0 at the same time and can carry an electric current with no resistance at low temperatures.

Meanwhile, General Fusion is all about huge and hot. The company is putting together the pieces for an alpha version of a nuclear reactor plant that would use magnetized target fusion. That is, it slams together hydrogen atoms by shooting donut-shaped electrified plasma into a chamber where it’s squished by synchronized pistons from all angles. This happens at a temperature of 150 million degrees. The point: To create clean and cheap energy.

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Mr. Andres Agostini
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The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 03 THROUGH MARCH 10/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Making nanoelectronics last longer for medical devices and ‘cyborgs’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/making-nanoelectronics-last-longer…es-cyborgs

Are you ready for the Internet of Cops?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-you-ready-for-the-internet-of-cops

Moore’s law and neural networks collude to address grand challenge
http://www.kurzweilai.net/moores-law-and-neural-networks-col…-challenge

Emerging market risk and reward
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-341033-emerging-market-risk-and-reward.html

Crisis in Crimea: What Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU Should Do

Crisis in Crimea: What Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU Should Do

10 Top Trends in Social Media
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/24/10-top-trends-in-social-media/

Did Sherlock Holmes Believe in God?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/03/03/d…ve-in-god/

Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains

Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks

East Ukraine aflame as Russia poised to strike
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/03/odessa-r…rit=206567

Buffett: I’d love to see minimum wage at $15 an hour
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/economy/buffett-minimum-wage/index.html

Gates reclaims Forbes title of world’s richest billionaire
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/companies/forbes-billio…index.html

Here’s Why Scientists Are Shooting Rockets at an Aurora
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/heres-…7_46466698

How NASA Is Trying to Help California Survive Its Water Crisis
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/water/ho…=pm_latest

How to Annex Another Nation’s Territory: The Crimean Invasion in 6 Steps
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/how…ck=pm_news

Richard Branson on Why Leading Means Listening
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231826

Ukraine crisis: Grip tightens
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26413953

Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230436070…31046.html

WhatsApp Founders Make Last-Minute Addition to Forbes’ Billionaires List
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/whatsapp-founders-forbes-billionaires-list/

Ukraine Crisis May Thwart Obama Plans From Iran to China
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/ukraine-cri…china.html

No, American Weakness Didn’t Encourage Putin to Invade Ukrain
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/no-…ne/284168/

Confirmed: Facebook’s $19-billion WhatsApp deal is Jaw-Dropping
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-confirme…g-20140302,0,5388152.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ftechnology+%28L.A.+Times+-+Technology+News%29

Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-single-use-memories.html

When Will Elon Musk Start Making Solar Panels?
http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/02/…panels.htm

In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency

Ion Proton™ Sequencer designed to sequence human genome fo

Art vs. Engineering? Art + Engineering?
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/Artic…ering.aspx

Is “Designed” in China the Next Big Thing?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArti…Thing.aspx

Rolls Royce and the Autonomous High Seas
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Seas.aspx

Undergrads Aim to Lower Bio Printing Costs
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…Costs.aspx

Tiny, Cheap, Foolproof: Seeking New Component to Counter Counterfeit Electronics
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/24.aspx

DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx

Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/20.aspx

ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/11.aspx

Molten Salts Might Provide Half-Price Grid Energy Storage
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525121/molten-salts-mig…y-storage/

Stem cells repair and strenthen muscles in aged mice
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/01/stem-cells-repair-and-st…aged-mice/

Enhancing the human race: augmented reality
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/scientific-break…icine.html

What if part of your innovation journey was to go back to the future?
http://smartinnovation.org/2014/03/02/what-if-part-of-your-i…he-future/

It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm: 3-D structure of enzyme that helps defend against bacteria
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140228210604.htm

Robots in 2020 / Vision of Future — Humans Life Jointly Humanoid

The End of Education As We Know It
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/radical-openness/t…ow-it.html

The Case for Connectivity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-ross/the-case-for-connectivity_b_4839486.html

SNOPA: A Privacy Win-Win for Social Media Age
http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/right-to-digital-pr…z2uv9naa6B

Pill could help humans live longer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10666532/Pill-could-help-…onger.html

Ten Things I Remember About the Future
http://markrvickers.com/2014/03/01/ten-things-i-remember-about-the-future/

Why Daydreamers Will Save the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140224153333&#4…-the-world

NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…nches.aspx

Professors, We Need You!

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File

Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Headlines: Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Dyson Invests in Robotic Vision Research
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…earch.aspx

NASA Research Aims to Print Wood in Space
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…Space.aspx

NASA Develops Star Trek-Inspired Gadgets That Can Heal Injured Astronauts and Eliminate Animal Testing
http://inhabitat.com/nasa-develops-star-trek-inspired-gadget…l-testing/

The ISS to Be Home to NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…m-Lab.aspx

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach

The Future of Military Force
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/02/24/the_futu…07102.html

Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2014/02/24/boundless-natural-ga…f1qt2.dpuf

Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-…f-history/

No Longer Science Fiction: Start-Up Unveils Radical Consciousness Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-weinkauf/no-longer-sci…88935.html

Machine Consciousness: Fact Or Fiction?
http://footnote1.com/machine-consciousness-fact-or-fiction/

3D bioprinting the human body — infographic
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/gadget/newsid=34156.php

Extremism and terrorism are the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups
http://man-as-media.com/2014/01/08/extremism-and-terrorism-a…-startups/

The Internet of Things and CIA concern
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Homeland-Security-Today-43648…ps-b-grp-v

The Science Behind Procrastination
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/the-science-behind-procrastination

It’s Official: Microsoft Is Going Down
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140228214728&#4…going-down

The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges

The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges

Eterni.me will create a computer version of you for when you die
http://www.gizmag.com/eterni-me-death-avatar/31053/?utm_medi…witterfeed

New 3D-image modelling technology enables anyone to have a 3D digital doppelgänger
http://www.mpg.de/7975368/bodylab-3D-modelling-technology

“Think before you speak“
http://www.mpg.de/7959561/temporal_coordination-thinking_speaking

New drug against Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s on the way
http://www.mpg.de/7955496/anle138b_alzheimer_parkinson

Searching for Earth’s twin
http://www.mpg.de/7957207/PLATO

Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences release joint publication on climate change
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/climate-change-evidence-causes/

Mystery of marine mammal stranding solved
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/whale-standings-atacama/

Science in court: Disease detectives
http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-court-disease-detectives-1.14775

Alternative lengthening of telomeres in cancer stem cells in vivo
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/onc2013603a.html

Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v10/n3/abs/nphys2900.html

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship

U.K. To Legalize Three-Parent IVF?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39318/…rent-IVF-/

Bacteria’s Role in Bowel Cancer
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39314/…el-Cancer/

Plants Without Plastid Genomes
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39313/…d-Genomes/

Behavior Brief
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39307/…ior-Brief/

Next Generation: Seeing Brain Tumors
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39302/…in-Tumors/

Engineered Molecules for Smarter Medicines
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/engin…-medicines

The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/the-c…-and-micro

Simulating Star Formation on a Galactic Scale
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/simul…ctic-scale

Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/twist…l-geometry

Electronic Floor Sensors Turn Whole Rooms Into Immersive Touchscreens
http://gizmodo.com/electronic-floor-sensors-turn-whole-rooms…1531835835

Interactive Virtual Reality In 3-D, The Newest Learning Tool
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026765/interactive-virtual-reali…rning-tool

Drone Cargo Ships Will Make the Real World Work Like the Internet
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/drone-cargo-ships-will…-internet/

6 Industries That Will Profit From Global Warming
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/climateprofiteers/

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research

Key trends from the world’s biggest mobile technology show
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/tech/mobile/mobile-world-congr…index.html

The Internet of Things Space is being enhanced by Cisco
http://marketeyewitness.com/internet-things-space-enhanced-cisco/

Smartphone-Piloted Drones Could Support US Troops on Front Lines
http://www.livescience.com/43545-darpa-cargo-drone.html

No Hands! Mind-Controlled Helicopter Flies On Brainwaves
http://www.livescience.com/43250-mind-controlled-quadcopter.html

Can Gadgets Really Tell The Future?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026853/can-gadgets-really-tell-the-future

Can Quantum Communication Work For Underwater Vehicles and Sensors?
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525166/can-quantum-comm…d-sensors/

Why The New American Workforce Wants Better Consumption, Not Just More
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026869/why-the-new-american-work…-just-more

How Growing Buildings Underwater Could Fight Climate Change
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026694/how-growing-buildings-und…ate-change

Images Of New York City in 2017 As An Unequal, Hellish Surveillance State
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026737/images-of-new-york-city-i…ance-state

Multinationals See Reputations Eroding from Tax Planning
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Multinationals-Reputatio…#45;1.html

Willis Study: Tech Firms Point to Dependence on Outsourced Vendors as Cyber Threat
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/willis-study-tech-firms-poi…_news_stmp

Why Teens Are the Most Elusive and Valuable Customers in Tech
http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/inside-massive-tech-land-g…id=sf01001

A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE: POPULATION SIZE
http://elizagreenbooks.com/2014/03/02/a-dystopian-future-pop…ign=buffer

Technology: Rise of the replicants
on.ft.com/1gNlGWz

The CIO: More Than a Network Steward
http://simplifywork.blogs.xerox.com/2014/03/03/the-cio-more-…k-steward/

QUOTATION(S): “…The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable…”

CITATION(S): “…If you plot the basic measures of the price to performance and capacity of information technologies (for example, computer instructions per second per constant dollar, bits of memory per dollar, or the total number of bits being moved around over the Internet), they follow remarkably smooth — and foreseeable — trajectories. This observation goes well beyond Moore’s Law (which says you can place twice as many transistors on an integrated circuit every two years); in the case of computation, it goes back to the 1890 American census, long before Gordon Moore was even born .… What’s predictable is that these measures grow exponentially, not linearly, though our intuition about the future is linear, which is hard-wired in our brains. This makes a remarkable difference. Thirty steps linearly gets you to 30, whereas 30 steps exponentially (2, 4, 8, 16…) gets you to a billion .… And it’s not just electronics and communications that follow this exponential course. It applies as well to health, medicine and its related field of biology. The Human Genome Project, for instance, saw the amount of genetic sequencing double and the cost of sequencing per base pair come down by half each year .… A computer that fit inside a building when I was a student now fits in my pocket, and is a thousand times more powerful despite being a million times less expensive .… In another quarter century, that capability will fit inside a red blood cell and will again be a billion times more powerful per dollar…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (25) Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever.

BOOK(S): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. ISBN-13: 978–0316346627.

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 Scientific Management, Today!

LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 24 THROUGH MARCH 02/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Brain signals from a primate directly move paralyzed limbs in another primate ‘avatar’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-signals-from-a-primate-direc…ate-avatar

Rice’s carbon nanotube fibers outperform copper
http://www.kurzweilai.net/rices-carbon-nanotube-fibers-outperform-copper

Single-chip device to provide real-time ultrasonic 3D images from inside the heart and blood vessels
http://www.kurzweilai.net/single-chip-device-to-provide-real…od-vessels

Researchers create powerful muscles from fishing line, sewing thread
http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-create-powerful-muscle…ing-thread

The Future of World and Technology in 2030
http://vivatechnics.com/global/the-future-of-world-and-technology-in-2030/

Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences…wueOYVUOHd

Q&A with Martin Whist: Designing RoboCop’s Reboot
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/18-the-man-behind-robocops-reboot

Scientists Bring Extinct Mouth-Brooding Frog Back to Life After 30 Years
http://inhabitat.com/scientists-bring-extinct-mouth-brooding…-30-years/

Computer robots will outsmart humans within 15 years, Google director claims (and a giant laboratory for artificial intelligence is already planned)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2565948/Compu…anned.html

Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-22/microsoft-s…ivals.html

Are the robots about to rise? Google’s new director of engineering thinks so…
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-goo…telligence

5 Reasons Why Big Data Will Crush Big Research
http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2013/12/03/5-reasons…-research/

Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/02/scientists-freeze-light-…ign=buffer

Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-p…us-disease

Stanford’s New Pomegranate Super Batteries Could Store 10 Times More Juice
http://inhabitat.com/stanfords-new-pomegranate-super-batteri…ore-juice/

Web Analytics Trends for 2014
http://www.atomrain.com/it/it/web-analytics-trends-2014

Bitcoin is not just digital currency. It’s Napster for finance.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/21/bitcoin-platform/

Did A Russian Scientist Really ‘Cure Aging’ or Is It Just a Fluke?
http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/21/did-a-russian-scientist…uke-video/

Map of the World key to full immersion in geospatial data
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/02/18/map-of-the-world-key-to-f…-data.aspx

When Will My Car Fix Istelf Using Wireless Uploads?

When Will My Car Fix Istelf Using Wireless Uploads?

The lie detector for your TWEETS: Scientists develop system that can tell fact from fiction in 140 characters or less
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2562919/A-lie…-less.html

Don’t read War & Peace with your Google Glass…yet
http://www.publishingtechnology.com/2014/02/dont-read-war-pe…-glassyet/

Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-…f-history/

The Office Of The 21st Century Will Be Your Self-Driving Car
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026652/the-office-of-the-21st-c…riving-car

An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia
http://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-f…1526062373

Scientists Turn Off Pain Using Nothing But Light
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-turn-off-pain-using-nothing-but-light-1526906564

UA Researchers Use 3D Printing to Help Fight Cancer
http://3dprint.com/1000/ua-researchers-use-3d-printing-to-help-fight-cancer/

Concrete and Climate Change – the Greening of Infrastructure

Concrete and Climate Change – the Greening of Infrastructure

Stephen Hawking: Humanity Must Colonize Space to Survive
http://www.space.com/20657-stephen-hawking-humanity-survival-space.html

Stephen Hawking: “Why We Should Go Into Space“
http://www.nss.org/resources/library/spacepolicy/hawking.htm

Incredible Technology: How Future Space Missions May Hunt for Alien Planets
http://news.yahoo.com/incredible-technology-future-space-mis…33845.html

Exoplanets: New missions hunting for alien worlds
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130829-the-new-hunt-for-alien-worlds

Five alien worlds with water detected by Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.sott.net/article/269546-Five-alien-worlds-with-wa…-Telescope

Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worlds-exist

DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx

Radiation-free cancer scans may be on the horizon
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57619153-76/ra…e-horizon/

3 Ways Social Media Is Driving A Business Revolution
http://www.forbes.com/sites/drewhendricks/2014/02/25/3-ways-…evolution/

Your Twitter Search Results Will Now Feature Promoted Accounts
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026918/fast-feed/your-twitter-se…Company%29

Apple Doesn’t Need a Mega-Acquisition to Think Bold
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/25/apple_mega_acquisition.html

How Millennials Are Changing the Face of Consumer Marketing
http://www.v3im.com/2014/02/how-millennials-are-changing-the…z2uNRMOFdc

Not Your Typical Hackathon: Symantec’s Cyberwar Simulation Transforms Employees Into Criminals
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026749/not-your-typical-hackatho…-criminals

How Cloud Computing is Changing Many Job Descriptions
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joemckendrick/2011/12/26/cloud-c…criptions/

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?

An Artificial Hand with Real Feeling
http://www.technologyreview.com/photoessay/524676/an-artific…l-feeling/

The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/the-dawn…ce/283730/

Monetizing the Internet of Things : 4 key areas of focus
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2014/02/24/monetizing-the-inter…-of-focus/

25 maps and charts that explain America today
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/02/24/25…ica-today/

Newest Air Force One aircraft to arrive in 2017
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/17880/newest_air_force_on…rrive_2017

Lie detector on the way to test social media rumours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26263510

Future green technology concept
http://itechfuture.com/future-green-technology-concept/

The Google Smartwatch Is Real, And It’s Coming Soon (But Maybe Not Too Soon)

The Google Smartwatch Is Real, And It’s Coming Soon (But Maybe Not Too Soon)

Self-forming liquid metal just like a TERMINATOR emerges from China lab
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/21/liquid_metal_breakth…ep_closer/

Fear of Being Different Stifles Talent
http://hbr.org/2014/03/fear-of-being-different-stifles-talen…tm_medium=

Researchers hijack cancer migration mechanism to ‘move’ brain tumors
http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-hijack-cancer-migratio…ain-tumors

New wireless tech may radically transform mobile video streaming
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-wireless-tech-may-radically-tr…-streaming

Graphene found to efficiently absorb radio waves
http://www.kurzweilai.net/graphene-found-to-efficiently-absorb-radio-waves

Will plug-in electric cars crash the electric grid?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/will-plug-in-electric-cars-crash-the-electric-grid

The Future of the News Business: A Monumental Twitter Stream All in One Place
http://a16z.com/2014/02/25/future-of-news-business/

Exiles on Main Street: When Ordinary People Resist the Oil-pocalypse
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/reverend-billy/resisting-the-o…um=twitter

PM/AM: Citizen Science Goes Mobile
http://www.popularmechanics.com/how-to/blog/pmam-citizen-sci…=pm_latest

The Missed Opportunity in STEM Education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-sten-odenwald/the-missed-op…32030.html

‘Space-Based’ Astronomy From Antarctica
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2014/02/25/space-b…ntarctica/

Two Explorers Just Completed A Polar Expedition That Killed Everyone The Last Time It Was Attempted
http://www.businessinsider.com/british-explorers-make-world-…2014-2

NASA to launch satellite in collaboration with ISRO
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/nasa-to-launch-satellite-i…sro-488328

Dad May Join Two Moms for Disease-Free Designer Babies
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-25/dad-may-joi…abies.html

Tiny Blobs and Tunnels in Meteorite Revive Debate Over Life on Mars
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/tiny-blobs-tunnels-mete…ars-n38431

How Millennials Can Better Prepare For Today’s Workforce: 10 Critical Steps
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2014/02/22/how-mill…cal-steps/

Average Chinese Getting Richer
http://linkis.com/dlvr.it/Hzx4C

Swiss Company Turns Human Ashes Into Diamonds

Swiss Company Turns Human Ashes Into Diamonds

Why China can’t take over the world
http://qz.com/162690/why-china-cant-take-over-the-world/

How to Get a Job at Google

Nanopatterned natural biological scaffold for stem cells may allow for softer engineered tissues
http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanopatterned-natural-biological-s…ed-tissues

Offshore wind farms could tame hurricanes before they reach land, Stanford-led study says
http://www.kurzweilai.net/offshore-wind-farms-could-tame-hur…study-says

Major enigma solved in atmospheric chemistry
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-major-enigma-atmospheric-chemistry.html

Pine forest particles appear out of thin air, influence climate
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-forest-particles-thin-air-climate.html

Local Motors to Debut 3D Printed Car in September
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/Art…ember.aspx

Rossetta’s Portrait Above Mars
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Mars.aspx

There is no Engineer in CAD!
http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArti…n-CAD.aspx

Lotus Debuts its First Motorbike — The C-01
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-C-01.aspx

Fastest Wire Bending in the World
http://www.engineering.com/Videos/VideoPlayer/tabid/4627/Vid…World.aspx

Braigo — the Lego-made Braille printer built by a twelve year old
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…r-old.aspx

Stretchable Optical Circuits Have Futuristic Possibilities
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…ities.aspx

10 ways mobile technology will save your life in the future
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/25/business/10-ways-mobile-techno…?hpt=hp_c1

Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2014/02/24/boundless-natural-ga…eia-chief/

Brain Scans Show Striking Similarities Between Dogs and Humans
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/dog-brains-vocal-processing/

Record number of test tube babies born in the U.S.
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/19/record-number-of-test-tu…n-the-u-s/

A Solar Energy Breakthrough:
http://youtu.be/J_zzE8xMdZc

A Solar Energy Breakthrough:
http://youtu.be/J_zzE8xMdZc

A new breed of research is trying to Moneyball the least logical of all human endeavors: love.
http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/02/the_s…_time.html

Wearable computers could act like a sixth sense
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246582/Wearable_comp…geNumber=1

3D printing takes on metal at Amsterdam lab (w/ video)
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-3d-metal-amsterdam-lab-video.html#ajTabs

QUOTATION(S): “…To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour…”

AND

“…Change is not merely necessary to life ─ it is life…”

AND

“…The mind is a terrible thing to waste…”

CITATION(S): “…If you like where events seem to be headed, you may want to take timely action to preserve their positive trajectory. If you do not like where they appear to be going, you will have to develop and implement policies to change their trajectory…”

AND

“…Because time is real, and the future unpredictable, the challenge of carving a path into the future calls for a different way of thinking than the old, mechanical methods of strategic planning. In order to anticipate wholly new industries like the personal computer industry, it’s not enough to make predictions based on old assumptions. You need to imagine alternative scenarios based on new assumptions. You need to imagine alternative scenarios based on new assumptions. Those new assumptions need more than new numbers…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (24) Don’t copy Nature and Biology, don’t even copy Universe. Just copy the Omniverse.

BOOK(S): The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: “On Robustness and Fragility… by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (ISBN-13: 978–0812973815).

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

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

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 Intelligece And What The Official Establishment Has To Declare About It!

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

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).

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

FEBRUARY 15 AND 16/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At 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

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

Google’s Kurzweil says the machines will think for themselves by 2040, and oh — we’ll be immortal

Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal

Google engineering director Ray Kurzweil is, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. The relentless inventor — whose credits include the flatbed scanner, optical character resolution and speech-to-text- systems — is also a bestselling author, a successful entrepreneur, and an artificial intelligence pioneer.

His current title at Google, then, always seemed a little puzzling to me — after all, wasn’t he the sort of guy to set his sights on something a little higher than juicing sales of online advertisements at the world’s biggest Web search engine?

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The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

FEBRUARY 14/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image Recognition Will Change Everything
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-medias-big-data-future…_inn_feb14

EU Rules Mean That ‘Children Can’t Get Life-Saving Cancer Drugs’
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/eu-rules-children-c…mg00000067

Virgin Atlantic Is Using Google Glass for Faster Check-Ins
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/11/google_gl…s_for.html

Here’s What California’s Historic Drought Will Do To The Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-drought-economy-20…z2t3NVIAyL

Digital Currency Woes: Second Bitcoin Exchange Halts Withdrawals
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/digital-currency-woe…als-n27776

The GMAT: An exam with greater profit margins than Apple
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/11/gmat-exam-profi…ign=buffer

DIA Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn on Current and Future Worldwide Threats Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
http://www.dia.mil/News/SpeechesandTestimonies/tabid/7031/Ar…testi.aspx

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/many-promising-embryon…l-loophole

Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/why-robot-tru…where-else

Salvadoran Newspaper Sends Drone To Cover Presidential Election
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/salvadoran-newspape…l-election

Interactive Infographic: The Search For Other Earths
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/interactive-infographi…her-earths

Possible Link Found Between Bacterium And Multiple Sclerosis
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/possible-link-found-be…-sclerosis

Now In Japan: Giant Cyborg Cockroaches
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/now-japan-giant-cyborg-cockroaches

A Motorcycle Helmet For The Digital World
http://www.popsci.com/article/gadgets/motorcycle-helmet-digital-world

A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/mind-controlled-robotic-hand-sense-touch

Common Goal Partnering: An Exciting New Model For Cloud Service Providers
http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2014/02/11/cgp-cloud/

‘Brazil Is Not A Civilized Country’ Says The Country’s Most Controversial News Anchor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2014/02/10/brazi…ws-anchor/

Inside Google’s Mysterious Ethics Board
http://www.forbes.com/sites/privacynotice/2014/02/03/inside-…sform-tech

Looking To Amazon, BuildDirect Raises $30M To Take On Home Improvement Giants
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/01/21/buildirect…sform-tech

Don’t Believe The Innovation Cliché: Think Outside The Box But Stay Inside It
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dileeprao/2014/02/03/dont-believ…nking-risk

Former NSA Security Architect Pushes Email Encryption For The Masses
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2014/02/10/former…nking-risk

Google’s Market Cap Hits $400 Billion for First Time
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/google-400-billion/

NASA Wants to 3D Print Equipment in Space
http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/nasa-3d-printing-space/

The Felino cB7 is a Racers Dream, Will it Transition from Track to Road?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles…-Road.aspx

The Naval Postgraduate School Focuses on Systems Engineering
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/Artic…ering.aspx

Al Qaeda is “morphing,” not on the run, intel chiefs say
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-qaeda-is-morphing-not-on-the-…hiefs-say/

The New World’s Most Powerful Laser Can Destroy Any Planet Humans Want

The New World’s Most Powerful Laser Can Destroy Any Planet Humans Want

Entrepreneurship at MIT
http://executive.mit.edu/blog/2014/02/entrepreneurship-at-mit/

Future of Manufacturing
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/future_of_manufacturing/53

Strategies for Sustainable Business
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/strategies_f…usiness/55

Leading Change in Complex Organizations
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/leading_chan…zations/22

QUOTATION(S): “…All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilized life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made for regularity in the economy … in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow, all that gave nations and individuals some confidence in the morrow … all this seems badly compromised. I have consulted all augurs I could find, of every species, and I have heard only vague words, contradictory prophecies, curiously feeble assurances. Never has humanity combined so much power with so much disorder, so much anxiety with so many playthings, so much knowledge with so much uncertainty…”

CITATION(S): “…There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible…” AND “…That instability [between stasis and dynamism], or our awareness of it, heightened by the fluidity of contemporary life: by the ease with which ideas and messages, goods and people, cross borders; by technologies that seek to surpass the quickness of the human mind and overcome the constraints of the human body; by the ‘universal solvents’ of commerce and popular culture; by the dissolution or reformation of established institutions, particularly large corporations, and the rise of new ones; by the synthesis of East and West, of ancient and modern ─ by the combination and recombination of seemingly every artifact of human culture. Ours is a magnificently creative era. But the creativity produces change, and that change attracts enemies, philosophical as well as self-interested… With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamical processes through which it is carried. In our post ─ Cold War era, for instance, free markets are recognized as powerful forces for social cultural, and technological change ─ liberating in the eyes of some, threatening to others. The same is true for markets in ideas: for free speech and worldwide communication; for what John Stuart Mill called ‘experiments in living’; for scientific research, artistic expression, and technological innovation. All of these processes are shaping an unknown, and unknowable, future. Some people look at such diverse, decentralized, choice-driven systems and rejoice, even when they don’t like particular choices. Other recoil. In pursuit of stability and control, they seek to eliminate or curb these unruly, too-creative forces … Stasists and dynamists are thus divided not just by simple, short-term policy issues but by fundamental disagreements about the way the world works. They clash over the nature of progress and over its desirability: Does it require a plan to reach a specified goal? Or is it an unbounded process of exploration and discovery? Does the quest for improvement express destructive, nihilistic discontent, or the highest human qualities? Does progress depend on puritanical repression or a playful spirit? … Stasists and dynamists disagree about the limits and use of knowledge. Stasists demand that knowledge be articulated and easily shared. Dynamists, by contrast, appreciate dispersed, often tacit knowledge. They recognize the limits of human minds even as they celebrate learning … Those conflicts lead to very different beliefs about good institutions and rules: Stasists seek specifics to govern each new situation and keep things under control. Dynamicists want to limit universal rulemaking to broadly applicable and rarely changed principles, within which people can create and test countless combinations. Stasists want their detailed ruled to apply to everyone; dynamists prefer competing, nested rule sets … Such disagreements have political ramifications that go much deeper than the short-term business of campaigns and legislation. They affect our governing assumptions about how political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural systems work; what those systems should value; and what they mean .… These are not the comfortable old Cold War divisions of hawks and doves, egalitarians and individualists, left and right. Nor are they the one-dimensional labels of technophile and technophobe, optimist and pessimist, or libertarian and stasist that pundits sometimes grab to replace the old categories. They contain elements of those simpler classifications, but they are much richer, encompassing more aspects of life ─ more aspects of the emergent, complex future…”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPAL (TENETS) TO SEIZE PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (7) Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the lucrative genome. (8) Guillotine the over-weighted status quo. (9) Learn how to add up ─ in your own brainy mind ─ colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions, enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous in-motion shapes, methods, techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, locus, venues, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes, processes, tweets, “…knowledge-laden…” hunches and omniscient bliss, so forth. (10) Project your wisdom’s wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis.

BOOK(S): The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita. ISBN-13: 978–0812979770

Regards,

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