PRESENT Versus FUTURE.
By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy)
June 16, 2009 – Arlington, Virginia 22202, USA
www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com
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Evelyn Lindner: “Pessimism is a luxury of good times… In difficult times,
pessimism is a self-fulfilling, self-inflicted death sentence.”
The FUTURE always wishes to readily equip the present with novel
information. Why? Because the FUTURE considers the PRESENT a failed stated
in the realm of time, and does not desire to get implicated with the downsides
of a sub-optimal fellow.
As the FUTURE gives the PRESENT a bad score and becomes judgmental on it,
the PRESENT flagrantly denies and rejects the current existence of the
FUTURE.
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As the FUTURE paraphrases Shakespeare’s sentence (fears take away the
good with which we could win) and executes it in the practice, the PRESENT
feels a great animosity against such a maxim and habit.
The forthcoming FUTURE – already scattered among us – has a lot to offer to
the PRESENT, namely an invaluable out-of-this-word-and-time source of
narrative and numerical data (unexplored repository knowledge waiting to
being seized and administered by the PRESENT and its inhabitants). Can you
think of anyone more visionary than the king in his class, the FUTURE?
The PRESENT, unfortunately, is somehow anecdotic while the FUTURE
ruthlessly and relentlessly abides by ever-emerging scientific truths. These
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truths contained vast gold mines for creation, recreation, and supercreation,
as well as for devastation. The cultivated brains must root out the endless
dangers to capture the benefits, so humankind prevails on Earth and much
more beyond it if the Universe, too, –and its own dynamics– warrants such a
license.
For the first time in history, we can work backward from our imagination
rather than forward from our past. “In the midst of chaos, there is a learning
lesson to assimilate. Sometimes the table is served for an OVER-LEARNING if
the prepared mind is paying huge attention to the nano-granularity of
details.” (Andy – Andres Agostini, Nov/23/2001, 8:34 p.m. EST).
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“To me unchartered territory is the most splendorous ‘terra incognita’
territory, chiefly because of its sheer number of unknown knowns.” By
Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy), Friday, May/08/2008 + Arlington,
Virginia, USA
The term singularity entered the popular science culture with the 1993
presentation at NASA-sponsored conference of a seminal paper by San Diego
State University statistician Vernor Vinge. The abstract of the famous essay is
as daunting today as it was more than a decade ago:
Permalink: http://www.ArchSingularity.blogspot.com
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“Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create
superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended …Is such
progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may
survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers (and some
further dangers) are presented…”
“I just wonder if the FUTURE is always stalking on the PRESENT! Perhaps, it is
so. One thing can be ascertained, because of its non erudite nature, the
FUTURE (the over-ruling) is always filibustering the PRESENT (the enslaved).”
(Andy – Andres Agostini, Jan/19/2009, 3:17 p.m. EST).
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Andy-Andres Agostini: “these days—meaning: these seconds—the totality of
all is in the making perpetually. That to be ‘in the making’ made—at this
time—is relentlessly thought of and thought through way in advance. This is a
technique to CURRENTLY get your brains over-insourced by zillion, practiced
futuristic scenarios.” (Andy – Andres Agostini, Jan/17/2009, 10:21 p.m. EST).
"The FUTURE WILL HIT the PRESENT AND ITS RESPECTIVE GROUND, RUNNING.
All of that as it has been seen up to the present time. This is a hyper-
accelerated Eon and ever-increasingly by an over-exponential factor. Said
‘over-exponential factor,’ even when multiplied by many orders of
magnitudes as in effect it is, the non-linear geometrical growth of it is by most
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people immeasurably underestimated." – (Andy – Andres Agostini,
Jan/19/2009, 11:09 p.m. EST).
“To me–The PAST is more like Alice (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). The
PRESENT seems more like Mr. Hyde while the FUTURE appears to be more like
the conspiracy of Dr. Jekyll and Dorian Gray. Perhaps, we will need the
combined effort by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christies to decipher the
outright enigmas, namely those stemming from the always-awaited-but-
intruding FUTURE.” – (Andy – Andres Agostini, Jan/19/2009, 11:21 p.m. EST).
“Progress is the future outcome of cascades of ‘current moments’ flowing
divergently.” – (Andy – Andres Agostini, Jan/25/2009, 5:04 p.m. EST).
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The PRESENT is introvert adhocracy as the FUTURE is technocracy in
perpetuum. The PRESENT is an illiterate adhocratic one while the FUTURE is
the technocratic, 'omni mode' savant. The PAST is hollow, inconsequential
fossils.
Most business plans are ill-conceived indeed, as they are written-up and
reckoned with the eyes fixed in prehistory. IF IT IS NOT AN ACTUAL SUB-SET
OF A MUCH GREATER AND THOROUGH ADVANCED RISK MANAGEMENT
STRATEGY, THE FIRM WILL MEET GARGANTUM CHALLENGES. Otherwise,
there will be great opportunities! One end of the greatest Risk Management
Effort (extraneous to insurance, co-insurance, re-insurance, bonds, etc.) is to
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entertaining the fiscally sound outcomes of a business, literally any business,
challenge, or task.
This FUTURE, that throws around its weight through every facet of the
PRESENT impiously, might be 99.99% INEVITABLE. Inevitability, in this
instance, equates to meaning that it will be a rogue dictator, over-ruling
capriciously and solely by its way and taste. The unavoidable consequences of
this FUTURE can be mitigated or at least somehow modulated. Evidently, this
FUTURE’s UPSIDES can, perhaps, be seized and even amplified. To meet both
requisites, there is one HUGE prerequisite before proceeding any further. That
is, that the TOTALITY of HUMANKIND has to converge—‘on the doubles’—on
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the most essentials Herculean tasks to do in order to attempt the
sustainability of the corresponding civilization as it is known / perceived now.
Possibly, this FUTURE will not have—as per the hopes treasured by all-walks-
of-life eyewitnesses—a ‘natural tendency.’ Put plainly, because it is being
envisioned and worked-out preternaturally, this FUTURE may appear – before
our naked eyes – with extreme tendencies and directives that evoke the most
extravagant and transhuman mandate. The terms “extravagant” and
“transhuman,” in this case, apply for even the ultimately leading-edge
practitioner of the scientific realm, either within the eminent establishment,
or those with an unauthenticated citizenship from the avant-garde renegade-
verse. It might be a genuine deal, it might not?
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Said dictator will not impersonate anyone. He will be THE maximum
MONARCH OF TECHNOCRACY by his own right, Remember? Yes, yes, yes—I
know. Technocracy, the gentleman, just espoused a lady with an appalling
temperament that looses composure oft, even before the state’s visits by the
Holly Pope. Her fist name is “Global.” Her surname is “Crises.” That’s the
reason why this “power couple” has made Sir Francis Bacon a best-selling
icon, “FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST INNOVATOR.” Gotten it?
The PRESENT carries on superfluously. But the FUTURE is over-impregnated
and super-immersed with detailed meaning and significance and projected
transgressively a là ‘omni mode,’ as well as with its manifesting tangibly and
intangibly pervasive ubiquity.
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Perpetual innovation is a rogue truth to this PRESENT. The breadth, depth,
scope, and rate of acceleration of this FUTURE’s perpetual innovation will be
endless, endless so beyond the wildest dream or nightmare ever conceived by
the ultimately noted or most criticized sci-fi writer. To attribute to this
FUTURE’s perpetual innovation a quality of far-fetched will be an extreme
over-simplification.
The PRESENT is a function of the PAST and, above all, a function of the
FUTURE. The PRESENT is a function of the PAST only in part. Remember: The
FUTURE is always pre-clashing and/or clashing the PRESENT, thus
continuously shaping and re-shaping the PRESENT to a great extent. The
FUTURE is, so to speak, 30% a function of the PRESENT and 70% a function of
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the FUTURE itself. The PRESENT is bathed by permanency and by the quality
of being impermanent. The PRESENT is not a snapshot or fixed (static). It is the
linkage, superposition, and/or intertwining of many films (dynamical). Its
dynamism grants itself, the PRESENT, huge ambitions to becoming the
FUTURE while trying to capture the ‘here and now’ mirage. There are too
many ‘heres’ and a myriad of ‘nows.’
The PRESENT is always infinite, unless its interrelationship with the FUTURE
stops. The FUTURE is never endless unless a great anomaly takes place.
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Concerning the PRESENT and specially the FUTURE, the great majority of
people failed to considering the possibility of anything going wrong, no matter
how remote the location or complexity of the implementation environment.
The PRESENT and the FUTURE engender tsunamis of CHANGES. When you
altered your work because of competition and/or difficult times, you are
CHANGING your professional occupation (organizational strategy). When you
reflect and modify you innermost, you are CHANGING your essence to some
extent. CHANGING your essence to being ADAPTABLE to ever-shifting
realities. When CHANGE is always altering all types of CHANGES, the scientific
properties of known and unknown changes get modified, sometimes
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profoundly. This extreme modification is what I have been referring to
‘CHANGED CHANGES.’
CHANGED CHANGES make the overwhelming case for ‘beyond
unprecedented’ reinvention of humans, business and lifestyles, organizations,
businesses, governments, nongovernmental organizations, societies, and
worldwide society. In the process, the extreme makeover is in nothing
superficial or similar. And the call is an abrupt wake-up alarm to all sorts of
leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, business owners, government
administrators, consultants, adviser, strategists, professors, teachers,
students, researchers, and any breathing or cryogenized human being.
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At the time being, it does not matter anymore where you come from and how
this impact your ‘current’ PRESENT. Instead, what is presently relevant for you
to envision are the floating, fluxing, cross-railed FUTURES as they climb the
treacherous building-block ladder, the ladder of accumulation of
opportunities, challenges, and perplexing, but exuberant, tradeoffs. These
tradeoffs poise the least thinkable of the unthinkable results, challenging our
body (physiology), mind (psychology), and soul (spirituality). To apply for
practical leadership credentials will be a nearly, though not impossible,
insurmountable enterprise.
How insurmountable? As nearly insurmountable as attempting to hike the
Everest cloth-less, equipment-less, ill-prepared, without a crew and the
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indispensable Sherpa, as you walk and climb toward the mountain’s peak with
your back focused on the peak and while your eyes are grabbed by the
starting-point locus. You can always walk into the FUTURE backwards to
revive the fossilized vestiges of blur/made-up memories that eat your soul
out.
You know what the PAST is? Reply: The eternal creative-tension discrepancies
between the FUTURE and the PRESENT, encapsulated in a stream of segments
from the ‘preterit tense’ kingdom, a kingdom that is neither awaken nor
significant.
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Clearly, the genetics and genomics of the human beings will have a notable
impact on the psychology and physiology of the humans until the FUTURE’s
say. Such a say has a designated ‘due time.’ By all effects, the FUTURE is
always a representative of three facets. There is the facet of opportunities
that we can call UPSIDE RISKS. Another facet is that of the likelihood of
potential disruption. The former impersonates the DOWNSIDE RISK. Thirdly,
there’s the facet of blended UPSIDE RISKS with DOWNSIDE RISKS. To really get
the OPPORTUNITIES the DOWNSIDE RISKS must be terminated or, at least,
mitigated.
Such eternal creative-tension discrepancies —as imposes the rogue and nearly
ageless interrelationship between the FUTURE and the PRESENT—wage a
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'preemptive war' to get the PAST under retirement. These eternal creative-
tension discrepancies make three major displacements. Firstly, it displaces the
PAST to a corner where vestiges are fossilized but not looked after. Secondly,
it displaces the PRESENT closer to the FUTURE. Thirdly, the FUTURE pulls
pervasively the PRESENT to the FUTURE’s intimate spheres of influence, since
this monarch (the FUTURE) wishes the PRESENT to be the ultimate, loyal
subject of the FUTURE. This wish from the FUTURE is to this monarchical ruler
a sine qua non without fail.
It must be mentioned that interrelationship between the FUTURE and the
PRESENT is intense and will become increasingly more intense, beyond the
boldest and lucid imagination.
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Mother Nature is a great and loving and noble matriarch. The Universe is the
oldest and wisest Patriarch, perhaps the elder son of the greatest intelligence
of all. The Multiverse (many universes with, at the same time, many
dimensions) is not only the maximum, all-enabling Patriarch, but also a
pervasive Patrician holding the greatest intelligence, wealth, perhaps the
elder son of omniscience, nanotechnology, biotechnology, robotics, and A.I.
(artificial intelligence).
Successful and tough reverse-engineering captures breakthrough innovations
for the PRESENT’ and from the FUTURE’s dominion. Reverse-engineer all
regardless of its origins, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. This is important to
bear in mind.
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Successful and tough reverse-engineering captures breakthrough innovations
for the PRESENT’ and from the FUTURE’s dominion. Reverse-engineer all
regardless of its origins, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. This is important to
bear in mind.
Every human is partly earthling and partly extraterrestrial. Why? Because pre-
biogenesis and bio-genesis was (at least and as it seems) massively instilled
from the outer space. If extraterrestrial beings existed, they would be, in fact,
siblings to current humans. How come? Because there are other genesis
different from biogenesis on Earth, whether within our knowledge or not. A
genesis does not only take place only on Earth, but in the whole Universe if it
is or not under known and unknown modes.
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To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over leadership and to scientifically
steward disruption potential, you need to understand the PRESENT, the
FUTURE, and its frenzy interrelationship. In making this effort optimum—and
among other prerequisites—we must find out and address two topics. One
topic has to do with how we reached this PRESENT out of a scattered PAST’s
technological accomplishment as we constructed an expanded knowledge
repository just by practicing future scenarios through radiant foresight, far-
sight, hindsight, insight, and innermost-sight.
Another topic is that insidious habit of the FUTURE in seducing the as-of-now
PRESENTS while the citizens of such PRESENTS make us agent so many
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looking-forward changes that set afire the interrelationship between this
PRESENT and this FUTURE. Now we know how we got to ‘here’, ‘here’ is the
hyper-dynamism of flows, in-flows, counter-flows, avant-garde flows, crossed-
pollinated flows, point-inflecting flows. “As-of-now” exactly refers to the
PRESENT-FUTURE’s own tête-à-tête.
‘Here’, while in the PAST, was a bit statistical but never really so. The so-called
‘here’ is undergoing a total immersion of numberless processes, transactions,
deeds, etc. ‘Here’ has always been mobilized. ‘Now’ is motorized at a rate that
is beyond awe-inspiring. We just got the ‘now’ about right to this point. To
turn savvier on this FUTURE, one must be a genius in his executions (sic).
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Then, he / she has to make the greatest effort of all, that is, to think
unthinkably in relation to present forces and respective futuristic trends—
both subtle and dramatic ones as well as those driving and marshalling and
enforcing just brute-force dramatic ones—by means of the practical
implementation of scenario planning.
Thereinafter, your unthinkable thinking about FUTURES must become more
refined, enhanced, exuberant, streamlined, diverse, expanded, and extended.
In doing so, it never suffices to come up with a three-scenario forecast.
Subsequently, forecasts must carry with you as many plausible or implausible
scenarios as resources required never loosing the maximum rigor. Also, no
optimum forecast is great enough if it is not accompanied of an arsenal of
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plans of contingency. Each scenario crafted must have its respective,
unambiguous plan of contingency without a fail.
All of this is true for humans from the PAST and the PRESENT. Toward a more
advanced time—and by means of reverse-engineering with the omniscience
perspective—the humans will increasingly be of different constituents and
design.
The PRESENT is always unnecessarily delayed or even lost and absent-minded
because its limits are impermanent and capabilities are finite. The PRESENT
never contemplates fast-forward-ly, but in reversal in so adding to its even
greater disadvantage. The FUTURE operates beyond the offensive
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acceleration of ‘light speed’-plus and nearly without or with zero limits or
constraints or borders. The FUTURE is the Napoleonic Emperor that does
everything only under its own terms, exploiting every advantage and
disadvantage to its lucrative well-being and omni-ruling.
The FUTURE is accustomed to spying on the PRESENT. How come? The
FUTURE is the PRESENT’s debriefing one. The FUTURE is, in many cases a
virtuoso, though it at times voyeurs the PRESENT. What a horrendous vice!
Such deed will NEVER be tolerated. How do you REHAB the FUTURE? Group
therapy? Grouping it with whom?
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The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is ‘child like’ wondered by
daydreaming. In the mean time, the post-modern modernity is a rush getting
more and more modern by unprecedented ‘shock and awe’ unearthed
standards.
This criss-cross PRESENT will be reconstituted by the continually crinkum-
crankum FUTURE inevitably. There is going on a terzetto in which the
happenings are more or less like this: the PAST (R.I.P), the PRESENT (thé
dansant), and the FUTURE (tertium quid). Clearly, the PAST is getting a CPR to
be by historians. Earned in his own intellectual right, Jefferson stated: “I
prefer the dreams of the FUTURE than history.”
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Who would dare not to appreciate that nanotechnology, biotechnology,
bionics, and artificial intelligence making deep and steep inroads? Incidentally,
the definition of the omniscience perspective can be revised at
www.AllSciCzar.blogspot.com as well.
The PRESENT is an absent-minded sardine while the FUTURE is giant cuttlefish
in conspiracy with an octopus.
Ying and Yang have combined forces of subtle and dramatic origin. These days
the PRESENT is a bit like a pseudo-harmonized Ying-Yang relationship. The
FUTURE is only about Yang deeds.
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The PRESENT is besieged by a bunch of dilettantes and poseurs. The FUTURE
is—so to speak—à la Sir Francis Drake.
The PRESENT is more like Huckleberry Finn while the FUTURE is perhaps the
archetype of Genghis Khan and his Mongols.
The stream of as-of-now PRESENTS will become—to some extent—one of the
forthcoming FUTURES. At some point ahead, a PRESENT will be ultimately
integrated into a single FUTURE. Such a FUTURE, though, will reach a point in
which being bio-based or bio-related or not in vivo at all will be splendorously
awaken and active. (March 12, 2009 at 1:34 p.m. EST. By © Copyright 2009
Andres Agostini ‘Andy’ at www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com).
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Regardless of transhumanity, overhumanity, superhumanity, nonhumanity
and ‘above and beyond’ humanity, the hard-core essential is and will be not
being human but becoming and acting humanely. (March 12, 2009 at 1:58
p.m. EST. By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini ‘Andy’ at
www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com).
The PRESENTS are from appalling and contentious interrelationship between
Venus and Mars. The FUTURES are only from stringent Mars. Go and ask
about it Dr. John Gray.
The FUTURES are supervening upon the PRESENTS in combination with the
ruthless forces possess by the own FUTURES.
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The PRESENT concerns the animal and vegetable kingdoms. The FUTURE is
only about beyond post-humanity and its staggering brute-force-and-
dramatically-subtle INTELLIGENCE.
The PRESENT pertains to discovering science. The FUTURE is absolute science
dominance and nearly infinite power.
The PRESENT is always misled and misleading, treasuring a great promise of
deceit. The FUTURE is eloquently transparent and clear, crippling—in
advance—violators of ethics, morality, principles, integrity, and dignity.
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The Delphian PRESENT goes through obscurely, ambiguously, and
unnecessarily enigmatic. After all, even if the masses are appalled by enigmas,
the leading-edge scientific intellects find THOSE quite thought-provoking. The
FUTURE is Herculean in every deed by their brain (BIO, Tans-BIO or otherwise)
as well as by those endeavors manifested in the realities from (i) actuality, (ii)
virtuality, and (iii) that flowing across every dimension of the Multiverse.
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By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy)
May 21, 2009 -Arlington, Virginia, USA
www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com
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