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UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE!
By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy) –
Arlington, Virginia, USA

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Andres Agostini
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UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE!
By © Copyright 2009 Andres Agostini (Andy) – Arlington,
Virginia, USA

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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

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and rejects the current existence of the FUTURE.
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 –

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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

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the FUTURE ruthlessly and relentlessly abides by ever-
emerging scientific truths. These 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.

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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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“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…” By Dr. Vernor
Vinge (Department of Mathematical Sciences, San Diego
State University) on the Singularity (1993).

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These statements were presented at the
VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by
NASA Lewis Research Center and the
Ohio Aerospace Institute (March 30-31,
1993), a slightly changed version also
appeared in the Winter 1993 issue of Whole
Earth Review, Dr. Vernor Vinge

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(Department of Mathematical Sciences, San
Diego State University) on the Singularity.
Please note that at the end of the present
work –under the title THE
[TECHNOLOGICAL] SINGULARITY–the
reader can find the exact and entire words
pronounced by Dr. Vinge. Source:

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www.ArchSingularity.blogspot.com
“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 perpetyually.
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).

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\"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 people
immeasurably underestimated.\" – (Andy – Andres Agostini,

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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

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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).
Most business plans are ill-conceived indeed, as they are

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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 entertaining the fiscally sound outcomes of

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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

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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 the most essentials Herculean tasks to do in
order to attempt the sustainability of the corresponding
civilization as it is known / perceived now.

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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

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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?
Said dictator will not impersonate anyone. He will be THE
maximum MONARCH OF TECHNOCRACY, Remember?
Yes, yes, yes—I know. Technocracy, the gentleman, just

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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

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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.
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

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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 of
the FUTURE. The PRESENT is a function of the PAST only
in part. Remember: The FUTURE is always pre-clashing

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and/or clashing the PRESENT, thus continuously shaping
and re-shaping the PRESENT to a great extent. The
FUTURE is, so to speak, 30% a function of the PRESENT
and 70% a function of the FUTURE itself. 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

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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

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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 profoundly. This extreme modification is what I
have been referring to ‘CHANGED CHANGES.’

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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,
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adviser, strategists, professors, teachers, students,
researchers, and any breathing or cryogenized human
being.
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

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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.

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How insurmountable? As nearly insurmountable as
attempting to hike the Everest cloth-less, equipment-less, ill-
prepared, without a crew and the indispensable Sherpa, as
you walk and climb toward the mountain’s peak with your
back focused on the peak and while your eyes are grabbed
by the starting-point locus. You can always walk into the
FUTURE backwards to revive the fossilized vestiges of
blur/made-up memories that eat your soul out.

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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.
Clearly, the genetics of the human beings will have a
notable impact on the psychology and physiology of the

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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

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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 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

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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.

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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.
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

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(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

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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

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fact, siblings to current humans. How come? Because there
are other geneses 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.
To capture benefits and to extreme-make-over leadership
and to scientifically steward disruption potential, you need to

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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

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innermost-sight.
Another topic is that insidious habit of the FUTURE in
seducing the as-of-now PRESENTS while the citizens of
such PRESENTS make us agent so many looking-forward
changes that set afire the interrelationship between this
PRESENT and this FUTURE. Now we know how we got to
‘here’, ‘here’ is the hyper-dynamism of flows, in-flows,

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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

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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).
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

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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

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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
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

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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

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greater disadvantage. The FUTURE operates beyond the
offensive 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.

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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?
The PRESENT is sleepwalking while the FUTURE is ‘child
like’ wondered by daydreaming. In the mean time, the post-

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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

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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.”
Who would dare not to appreciate that nanotechnology,
biotechnology, bionics, and artificial intelligence making
deep and steep inroads? Incidentally, the definition of the
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www.AllSciCzar.blogspot.com as well.
The PRESENT is an absent-minded sardine while the
FUTURE is a giant cuttlefish in conspiracy with an octopus.
Yin and Yang have combined forces of subtle and dramatic
origin. These days the PRESENT is a bit like a pseudo-
harmonized Yin-Yang relationship. The FUTURE is only

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about Yang deeds.
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

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Mongols.
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