The Future-Present Interrelationship: Reflections, Thoughts, And Ideas, As Well As Success Tenets, By Copyright Andres Agostini (Andy) - Arlington, VA, USA

(c) Copyright 2008 Andres Agostini

The Sheer Volume, Speediest Newness, And The Permanently Changing
Future-Present Interrelationship: Deep Understanding And Practical
Prescriptions For A Daring (Man-Made And Otherwise) Third Millennium!

(Pictorially and semantically illustrated).

By Andres Agostini, December 16 / 2K8 - Arlington, Virginia, USA

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Robert Kennedy: The past is not the script of the future…Future is

not a gift; it is a daily conquest.

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Andy: 2008’s 'Perpetual Novelty' –after taking a bite of the first years of Century 21– appears

entirely, increasingly unleashed from precedent when analyzed from the longest and amplest historic

perspective (pursued by an exact-science practitioner), thus creatively disrupting (dragging the

FUTURE into this as-of-now PRESENT) a chain of past-time successions.

The links, between historic successions and other preterit sequences, not only are ‘broken’ and

against fuzzy discernment and counter-intuitivism (that of my beloved, yet-in-its-infancy Quantum

Mechanics), but also beginning to get unrelated to the essence, the substance, the depth and

breadth and scope as well as to the veritable and relevant facts and statistics, those facts and

statistics eternally undergoing massively ever-increasing dynamics. This material is hence anticipated

to seal a gap in the leadership and management literature.

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This saga that I pursue and share with the reader gained critical mass with the book “Future Shock”

by Alvin Toffler. So many intelligent, talented, and valuable people acknowledged having heard of it,

as they admit not having studied it thoroughly. My mind was caught in fire to learn much more on it.

Since the advent of this precious book, I got marveled by the subject matter. This theme – among

others – has been, is, and will be of my keenest interest until my life’s completion. Bertrand Russell

declared, “I know many people that would rather die than think.”

This is a time for us to change profoundly— changes that makes us more adaptable, resilient,

knowledgeable, and savvy— while committed to super-learning. SEE, IF WE GET

INTELLECTUALLY MORE PREPARED, DAY BY DAY THROUGH THE END OF TIMES, WE

EXTRACT FROM OURSELVES THE INSIDIOUS OBSOLESCENCE UNIVERSALLY SPOKEN

ABOUT THAT IS IMBEDDED IN THE HUMAN RACE’S GENOME. Super-learning makes the case

for us to be within and beyond the boundaries of hyper-dynamism. If we get ultimately “dynamical,”

we are in the optimum pathway to countermeasure threats, hazards, and vulnerabilities from this

increasingly daring Epoch. Business restoration and continuity is crucial as well.

This Epoch did not only change the known nature of risk, opportunity, change, and leadership, but it

is also flagrantly exploiting the unknown facets and dimensions of change per se. This ‘too futured’

change I call CHANGED CHANGES. Incidentally, there is CHANGE generated by others agents and

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factors. This is mostly the CHANGE THAT HAPPENS TO US AND THAT, AT TIMES, the one that

overwhelms us.

Then, there is the CHANGE brought into life by our own efforts and lack of them, directly or indirectly.

When technological, political, economic, societal, environmental, outer-space CHANGE is not

authored by our own direct efforts, WE MUST ADAPT, ADAPT, ADAPT, AS WELL AS

INDUSTRIOUSLY CHANGE THE MAGNITUDE, THE FREQUENCY, THE URGENCY, AND THE

INTENSIVENESS OF SUCH ADAPTATION, ROUTED BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS AND THAT ON

YOUR ONBOARD CREW. ADAPTING KNOWLEDGEABLY, TIMELY, UBIQUITOUSLY, AND

FOREVER IS THE WAY TO PROFOUNDLY CHANGE OURSELVES ALWAYS AND ALL OF THE

EPOCH. TO WHAT EXTENT? REPLY: TO AN AGELESS CONTINUUM OF HYPER-ADAPTATION.

The CHANGE, too, compounds, disrupting long-beliefs, value systems, and cosmovision (micro,

macro, and hybrid / blended ones). Other people’s changes get compounded with our own direct

effort to adapt, re-adapt, namely changing our minds, hearts, body, spirit, and soul. I timely share with

the reader, to the purpose of the present work, the personal motto of Dr. Stephen Covey, “Live Life

In-Crescendo.”

Please remember: The Rules and Skill Requirements have dramatically been altered and, even now

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while your intellect dialogues with my intellect (as you read) through this Technicolor-paper.

Nota Bene: This is the “Society of Knowledge” not only because there is immense availability of

knowledge, BUT BECAUSE YOU TOO MUST DEVELOP LEADING-EDGE KNOWLEDGE

(PATENTABLE) CONTENTS TO REINVENT THE WORLD RELEVANTLY.

Thereby, we are in a better situation to grasp a tiny bit of our destiny. If all of us were completely

determined and marshaled to sustained diplomatic efforts (non military ones) to be enforced by the

U.S., E.U., South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and India, there may be, for example, a stop to North

Korea’s ambitions for nuclear weapons.

So that you know: When we extract illiteracy from ourselves and to some extent, we are helping

civilization to prevail. This effort, nonetheless, must be massive, collective, and cross-functional.

Extracting illiteracy from humanity is to institute, for example, sophisticated risk management on

humanity and all of its constituents to a great degree. Never ever the old map suffices to get to a

blurred, always-changing place of novelty. Subsequently, awesome and emboldened and ubiquitous

mind expansion is an unquestionable, day-to-day MUST-HAVE!

Said ‘risk management’ does not ever equates with (a) Insurance, (b) Co-Insurance, and (c) Re-

Insurance.

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I have known many great talents in global corporations and multilateral institutions. Unfortunately,

these incumbents don’t train and re-train themselves. There is abundant literature in the marketplace

to update their doctoral degrees. Why managers, professors, and teachers don’t read fact-driven,

hard-copied, paid-for literature? When I started college, both in Canada and the U.S., my academic

advisors—before paying the tuition—told me that the validity of my studies would last up to five (5)

years immediately after completion. I know manyy people that get a MBA and never ever get updated

again. Many of them paid a high premium for a doctoral degree so that they didn’t have to seriously

study any farther. Clearly, people with doctoral degrees—on the whole—habitually require fine

literature more than oxygen and other nutrients. The latter ones know that nothing is fixed, but

mutating and transmutating. One must become a knowlegist immediately for his own sake.

On the other hand, the status quo — sometimes an agent that does not foster change — is by

definition a static “elite” of society. I have nothing with noted elites that are always seeking to get

better and excellent for the greater good of the world. I just don’t like “fat” establishments that let

Earth rotate without executing anything fruitful. Some think-tanks are fluid and productive and

indispensable groups of elite. As you see the Nature with the naturalist eyes, you’ll see elites all over

in the Animal Kingdom. Take a look at bees, aunts to cite two cases. In my opinion, Her Majesty, the

Queen of England is instrumental to keep political / societal balances and counterbalances. Without

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His majesty, King Juan Carlos, Spain might need to check its collective mental sanity from

separatism. He, too, with great prudence is instrumental to keep political / societal balances and

counterbalances.

Subsequently, I have nothing against elites, establishments, and or status quo. Some features I might

not agree upon, but I respect them all. I even respect those that might not respect my thoughts,

ideas, theories, hypothesis, and/or conjectures. I do not, at all, belong to the called “counter-culture,”

though I do respect them too and what they stand for. Why? Because I like openness and democracy

to the utmost, especially that guarded by the rule of law.

Besides, one cannot practice truly advanced risk managements if he / she does not consider many

futures via the scenarios method. One cannot exercise true and adaptable innovation without a

conscientious and perennial consideration of (a) FUTURE and (b) RISK. As potential disruption

always involves the so-called “human factor” and its inherent personal cosmology, those who study

and research FUTURE and RISK must consider, too, Millennium-3 leadership well in advance. Zero

prognostication or divination here, just eliciting explosive and dramatically subtle trends to formulate

futuristic scenarios (plotted on its respective, developed trends) and contingency plans. Without all of

this, there is no management and/or business to be launched and maintain with success at all.

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There is an Arab proverb that states, “Whoever sees the future lies even if he tells the truth.” A

Chinese guru told his disciples, “attempt not to live in interesting times.” It has been our grace and

disgrace to live in such interesting times. The guru meant that times like ours are troublesome for all-

walks-of-life people, but hugely interesting for those who observe with a prepared mind. The

prepared minds, though, should responsibly be here to explain phenomena (scientifically,

phenomena belongs to realm of normalcy) and suggest pathways to overcome and navigate terra

incognita’s unchartered waters with an even keel. We all must make these times better. The classical

Beetles song goes, “take a sad song and make it better.” In other words, let’s make certain we can

make the best out of the worst with the greatest determination ever.

No matter how many global, frenzy, intertwined, superposed, shocking, overlapping, building-up

crises (e.g., climate, ecology, geology, economy, business, marketplace, terrorism, society, poverty,

(super) population and its transformations, demographics, globalization, re-regionalization,

geopolitics, rogue power and soft power waging, as-we-now-know-it democracy, pandemic disease,

energy, risk (downside risk), opportunity (upside risk), dangers, safety, security, reliability, quality

assurance, corporate governance, emergency preparedness, restoration (private or civil or

institutional), lifestyle, innovation, creativity, strategic/exuberant surprise(s), leadership, organizational

strategies, management, economics, accounting, finance, marketing (some pundits of this area say

that clients are too empowered to need a vestige of marketing/marketer anymore), customers,

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healthcare and life enhancement, institutions, biology, genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence,

intelligence amplification, biotechnology, nanotechnology, malfeasance from Wall Street / Other

Stock Markets and any 'Main Street', non-stop Universe’s expansion―'till Big Crunch’s yoctosecond,

as well as the science, and technology per se, etc.) of this and that.

For instance and just to cite three significant vital factors, risk (downside risk), opportunity (upside

risk), and leadership must be boldly re-conceptualized, re-imagined, and reinvented.

This way each one / all, en masse, will realize how forceful everyone must come together into unison,

as energized A-C-T-I-V-I-S-T-S in favor of the benefits and against the challenges.

CITIZENS MUST COME TOGETHER ON THIS CAUSE UNEQUIVOCALLY AND WITH THE

GREATEST SENSE OF URGENCY, DILIGENT URGENCY OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS. Have to

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get mind-prepared and ever-ready as per my firmest POV.

Pervasive measures and countermeasures –being before numerous vulnerabilities and threats

increasingly conspiring against humans– must become generally known and administered properly at

the public level. You might wish to download the latest official and public report by U.S. intelligence at

www.AgostniWorks.blogspot.com.

THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE REAL DEAL. It’s time (as it seems to me after deeply researching the

subject for almost 30 years), through esprits de corps talented teams of ‘rivals’, to institute the

systemic, systematic, holistic stewardship of UPSIDE AND DOWNSIDE RISKS à la Gestalt and with

the concurrent omniscience vista. Hope cannot be audacious without supreme faith and

empowerment with state of the art. What do I mean by instituting the omniscience perspective?

Before going any further with the focus of the present material, I will thoroughly define the term

“omniscience” for the reader my way. No problem, this is to be shared openly.

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What do I mean by instituting the omniscience perspective?

Omniscience, With The Perspective Of…

This is a compilation on the lexicon “omniscience” to illustrate its meaning. When it comes time to

manage risks, futures, opportunities, leadership and great challenges of this Era, via omniscience

you exploit the positive facet of the challenge by crippling the disruption potential, partly or

completely.

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Thereby, you center-stage SUCCES or desired outputs to your favor and that of your onboard crew.

This vital notion must be imbedded in the neurons of any Milleniunn-3 Leader, otherwise nonsense is

preached and practiced.

One must make the effort to get the closet possible to applicable, applicable omniscience in the day-

to-day battlefield. The reader is fully entitled to make his / her own conclusion. It takes hard work in

extremis and a tsunami of determination to somewhat embrace the practicality of this crucial concept.

I will first give the reader the dictionary’s definition of “PERSPECTIVE.” Why? Because the idea is TO

MANAGE WITH THE OMNISCIENCE PERSPECTIVE. As follows: “per•spec•tive (p…r-spµk“t¹v) n. 1.

The technique of representing three-dimensional objects and depth relationships on a two-

dimensional surface. 2.a. A view or vista. b. A mental view or outlook. 3. The appearance of objects

in depth as perceived by normal binocular vision. 4.a. The relationship of aspects of a subject to each

other and to a whole. b. Subjective evaluation of relative significance; a point of view. c. The ability to

perceive things in their actual interrelations or comparative importance. --per•spec•tive adj. Of,

relating to, seen, or represented in perspective. --per•spec“tiv•al adj. --per•spec“tive•ly adv.”

This is the unified compilation of the Omniscience Definition:

(all of the following at the same time)

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“ … Having total knowledge; knowing everything … One having total knowledge … Pansophy:

‘universal knowledge or wisdom...system or work embracing all knowledge ... pol•y•math: A person of

great or varied, updated learning … know•ing … all-knowingness … Possessing knowledge,

information, or understanding … Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd ...

Suggestive of secret or private knowledge … conscious … having infinite awareness, understanding,

and insight … possessed of universal or complete knowledge … the omniscient narrator … A person

of great and varied learning … one who has rejected authority and dogma in favor of rational inquiry

and speculation … learning ; erudition ; teachers of great knowledge ; one who takes advice or

information from others … familiarity or awareness or understanding gained through experience and

study …the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, and/or learned … specific

information about something … narrative and numerical data gathered and assimilated … the

mastery of many areas of learning reflected in a scholar’s work … a collection of facts and data (A

man’s judgment cannot be better than the information on which he has based it) … that who

constructs expert systems … deep extensive learning … the instructed one that instructs other to get

further instructed … the methods, discipline, and attainments via academia, personal, professional,

organizational, and in-the-battlefield experience … extensive knowledge … infinite knowledge …

convergence of all wisdoms brought into one ultimate over-wisdom … the state or quality of having

infinite knowledge; knowing all things … universal knowledge or wisdom … system or work

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embracing all systems … a person of great and diversified learning … including in one view

everything within and beyond sight, insight, and farsight … having infinite discerned insightfulness …

a person of encyclopedic learning … omniscientia knowledge … having learned much in several

fields of study concurrently … educated, knowledgeable ; wise, sapient … that possessing great

wisdom and sound judgment … that who has been and remains schooled by the university of ‘hard

knocks’ … one that presumes that all things have not done sufficiently optimally … a self-dealing

person with his mindful transformation towards possessing all-knowingness … healthy obsession

with the nano-granularity of detail as it is pondering a collective multitude of subject matters ….

Profound knowledge, deep knowledge, total command or mastery; specialism, specialized or special

knowledge; expertise, proficiency; wide or vast or extensive knowledge, generalism, general

knowledge (updated), interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary knowledge; encyclopedic knowledge,

polymathy, polyhistory, pansophy … learning by inquiry … knowing all happenings in the life or

development of a people, country, institution, etc. … all scientific accounts of a system of natural

phenomena … eternal learning of the most complicated, fact-driven literature … hidden knowledge,

recondite knowledge”

Can I summarize it a pictorial illustration? See it now:

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In “Transformative and Integrative Risk Management, authored” by the undersigning, the

consideration of the omniscience application is of the maximum importance at all times.

(hard-core topic here resumes)…

Having addressed the definition of omniscience, I will get back to the chief subject matter of this

publication. Again, omniscience in the hands and minds of the right practitioners is a powerful tool

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that becomes worthless if violations of ethics and morality are what motivate some opaque souls. If

these violations keeps going and going, it is as if the entire civilization were teasing Armageddon into

crystallizing.

I wonder if this public effort can be ‘BRANDED’ (communicated efficaciously and virally) in a

functional and efficacious way! As long as there is not a 'MAD' catastrophe or a large

meteorite―science and technology will cogently drive mindful, inquisitive people / intelligent

hardware into enhanced transhumanity and super / overhumanity (with biological and non-biological

constituents) irreversibly towards the Socio-Technological Singularity (i.e., as per George Orwell’,

Alvin Toffler’, Vernor Vinge’, Ray Kurzweil’, Eric Drexler's, and, perhaps, that of NASA I'll, with great

pleasure, venture to mention).

THE MORE THE SO-CALLED CRISES HAPPEN, THE MORE THE EMPIRICAL-AND-OTHERWISE

PROGRESSIONS OF APPLIED 'STATE OF THE ART' WILL REGISTER WITHOUT A FAIL.

What might the human race get in exchange and by implementing all-encompassing MANAGEMENT

(all chapters thoroughly) via a compound, all-solutions toolbox, routed with the envisioning and

instituting of the optimal totality-of-knowledge? How? By operating the mind and the brains-driven

business battlefield (just a stratum among zillion strata) with THE COMBINED, INDUSTRIOUS

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ASSISTANCE OF OMNISCIENCE, PANSOPHY, POLYMATH, ALL-KNOWINGNESS.

If attention is indeed paid to world-class, ‘cross-pollinated researched' literature and media, What are

the good news? The current civilization can increase UPSIDE RISKS (benefits) and mitigate /

terminate DOWNSIDE RISKS (disruptions), some existential and others not. Incidentally, one

situation that does compound heavily (into terra incognita) is that of risks. CLEARLY, EVERYONE

ON EARTH MUST INDUSTRIOUSLY WORK UNDER THE ROGUE RULING OF THE ULTIMATE

DIVERSIFIED UNITY!

Diversity, when properly integrated and aligned, begets breakthrough innovation. QUESTION:

WHICH PATH / ROUTE WILL THE PROFESSIONAL / BY-OWN-DESIRE IGNORANT, LAZY,

MISTAKEN, IGNOMINIOUS, INDOLENT, OMINOUS, CORRUPT ONES TAKE? REMEMBER,

'ONE CANNOT GET TO A NEW PLACE WITH AN OLD MAP.' Just might need a GPS and a SAT-

Phone and Sacred scriptures.

Problem: Way too many supine ignoramuses, numbering a tough majority. Facing Century 21,

What / Where is your dynamic, real-time upgradable roadmap? Really? I just wonder! Kindly please

—to great fanfare— receive a warm welcome to attending the DEATH OF UN-RESUSCITATABLE

SCI-FI GENRE AND THE EVER-INCARNATION OF UBIQUITOUS SCI-FACTS. SUBSEQUENTLY,

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IT HAS NEVER BEEN MORE CRUCIAL TO BETTER YOUR INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL BEYOND

BOUNDARYLESS DREAMS.

Anyway, 'THE EMPIRES OF THE FUTURE ARE THE EMPIRES «OR MONARCHICAL STRATA»

OF THE MIND' (Churchill). HOW HAVE THE READER EXERCISED RADIANT AND PERVASIVE

MIND EXPANSION LATELY? The Human Race has always longed for progress, ultimately upping its

living standards for centuries. To that end, noted physicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking declares, ‘I believe

that the long-term future of the human race must be on «the outer» space.’ I ask myself, How lengthy

is ‘LONG’ for Dr. Hawking?

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In the process, the world stage has become a TREACHEROUS PROBLEM like never before (if one

desires to see more on what I mean, please go to: www.slideshare.net/andresagostini/a-challenging-

snapshot-summary-by-andres-agostini-arlington-virginia-usa-presentation).

One can use a plain, lay mode to envision it (i.e., sub-optimally). This is fun and stress-free, but, once

you capture a womb-to-tomb view of the world / universe (and what if the known universe is a sub-

universe of larger sets), one can easily realize that the world civilization is into a life-to-death

CHALLENGE, hugely and increasingly complicated. This is the Epoch of Complexity-Dom, and

simplicity burial! Simplicity can certainly have a role— that is, when judgment, pondering, and

intuition is flooded with leading knowledge assimilated and stewarded by and from the prepared

mind. It does not work the other way around. One can see grave complexity all over when he

observes in a plant the manufacturing process to make a plain, but indispensable, pencil.

It means that almost-700 billion inhabitants HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED FOR THEIR OWN

SURVIVAL. In my opinion, this clearly represents zero magic solution, just hard, brainy work, with nil

paradigms from and to everyone. There are too many out-crying, inflecting-point fronts. Behind the

complexity of these increasingly daring tribulations of 24 / 7 – if mitigated and terminated – there is,

though, a WEALTH OF OPPORTUNITY. Where? By way of example, in the development of called

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“green energy.”

Incidentally, this is not the taken-for-granted ‘Society of Knowledge.’ It is very expensive, since one

must daily mortgage their intellectual capital endlessly and to the utmost and for good. I, for example,

did not obviously give birth to hominoids, nor ever consider myself the supreme intelligence in the

universe (let’s just abide by facts and figures and preternaturalist thinking, as an amicable unasked

suggestion); Primates (including pre-humans and humans) were occupying the land and wandering

around, intrigued by copious wonders. A mind + A body + An opposable finger (thumb) + a rock can

equate to a great deal of fine and terrible, weaponized artifacts. These tools can build up a cathedral

or bring it down. What are the fundamental ethical principals involved?

Those, today, easily gain critical mass when the 7-billion souls wish to breathe and make a living and

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enjoy some world-class life standards, literally ‘de luxe.’ The adage, ‘one thing at the time’ will NOW

be replaced by ‘A PLENTIFUL, FOREVER-ONGOING [AND EVER-INCREASINGLY SO] CLUSTER

/ BUNCH OF DRAMATIC AND EXPLOSIVE PLUS SUBTLE THINGS [UNDER REGISTERED AND

UNREGISTERED PERVASIVE FORCES] IN REAL TIME AND ALL OF THE REAL-TIME TIME.’

As people have evolved and progressed, they have partly compounded the past into the present.

MEANTIME, THE FUTURE IS ALWAYS PRE-CLASHING THE CURRENT PRESENT. The more

FUTURE pre-clashes and/or clashes the as-of-now PRESENT, the more obsolete the PAST

becomes without a fail. GOOD TO KEEP IN CONSIDERATION, ‘IT IS OUR FUTURE THAT LAYS

DOWN THE LAW OF OUR TODAY’ (FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE). THIS ‘PRESENT’ IS

INFINITELY (NON-LINEAR-LY AND) MORE COMPLEX THAN OTHER PRESENTS.

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Now, we reached a canonical milestone that requires each one of us to do the best we know NON-

STOP-LY. Back in the eighties, life was much easier, say, in the West. It is difficult not to feel

nostalgia for those at-ease times. A great Scotsman speaks about this in length. He, Eamonn Kelly,

works for Global Business Network (Kelly is GBN’s CEO). He authored a great book, ‘Powerful

Times’. Thereby, ZERO EASINESS AND NONE SIMPLE SOLUTIONS, ARE NEVER EVER VIABLE

IN THIS FLUID EPOCH. If one were to apologize subsequently, (please) not me, not to me.

We have been called to revolt and act upon many techniques and methods compiled and compatible

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with a technocratic revolution. But to get the maximum output, the musical must be choreographed

(processes stemming from the respective throughput) and, above all, acted based on ‘esprit de corps’

unanimity. By the way, I am into frictionless capitalism, though I seriously doubt that the worldwide

stock markets will be the same. It is, at least, as important to determinedly look after the legitimate

needs, requirements, and expectations of humanity. At any rate, such humanity needs a viable

economic work of reference, especially with so many in needs.

By the same token I, too, strongly believe in assisting the people as an extremist humanitarian. I’m a

centrist + independent (without foolish ideologies, dogmas, doctrines) and within TRUE

DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND PRACTICES, OBSERVANT OF UNIVERSAL VALUES.

Thus and giving the challenging Eon, keep in mind the ageless sentence, ‘HE THAT WILL NOT

APPLY NEW REMEDIES MUST EXPECT NEW EVILS «CHANGED CHANGES THAT DISRUPT

OUR LONG-HELD SYSTEMS OF BELIEFS, COSMOVISIONS (MICRO AND MACRO AND

BLENDED ONES), ETHOS, AND COMFORT ZONES»; ‘FOR TIME IS THE GREATEST

INNOVATOR.’ (Sir Francis Bacon).

Incumbents, the civilization in its entirety, are entrusted with seeing (that is, seeing with the

granularity of detail) the big picture, namely the FLOWING, OVERRIDING W-H-O-L-E. If one does

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not comprehend it, seize assistance from a pro. This attempt is not only supreme within civilization’s

vested interest, but it’s ―also and indubitably― a sine qua non that humankind must not fail to

ignore. Ignoring it will be foolish for lack of a more grotesque profanity. Let’s keep in consideration,

‘an ignored issue is a problem invitation’ (Dr. Henry Kissinger). To further illustrate this whitepaper’s

focus, ‘a problem can never be resolved at the same level of knowledge that was created.’ (Einstein).

Can Andy recommend a success prescription for the presently-shifting Eon, let’s state yea! As

ensues:

Picture mentally radiantly.

Draw outside the canvas.

Color outside the vectors.

Sketch sinuously.

Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton.

Abduct indiscernible falsifiable convictions.

Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the genome.

Guillotine the over-weighted status quo.

Learn how to add up—in your own mind— colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions,

enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous shapes, enigmas, phenomena, methods,

techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes,

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hunches, so forth.

Retroproject your wisdom wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis.

Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate (multiverse teleporting out

of a warped passage) Da Vinci, Bonaparte, and Einstein.

Organize relationships into voluntary associations that are mutually beneficial and

accountable for contributing productively to the surrounding community.

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.

Kaisen it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant, Gendaken-motorized judgment.

Provide a roadmap for drastically compressing the time it will take you to get on the top of the

job, nonetheless of your organizational level.

With the required knowledge and relationships imbedded in organizations, create support for,

and carry out transformation initiatives.

Offer a tested pathway for addressing the linked challenges of personal transition and

organizational transformation that confront leaders in the first few months in a new

tenure.

Foster momentum by creating virtuous cycles that build credibility and by avoiding getting

caught in vicious cycles that harm credibility.

Institute coalitions that translate into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable

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stream of changes in personnel and environment.

Mobilize the overriding energy of many others in your organization.

Step outside the boundaries of the framework system when seeking a problem solution.

Additionally, it is good and timely to remember some of Napoleon's wise words. I consider Napoleon

an ultimate authority on applied 'Scientific Systems Methodology,' even as per our present-times

standards. Napoleon (a noted Corsican of Italian heritage who overtook and led the French Empire

grandiosely) firmly suggested boys, graduated from the 'lyceum' (high school) and honorably

discharged from the army, to master two vital disciplines. One was the ENGLISH language and the

other was SCIENCE. Voltaire (a great French intellect), too, emphasized the essentiality of this

language. Put simply and briefly, this is it for now.

By Andres Agostini (Andy)

PS_1: Some people asked me where I get my ideas from. I have been involved with some of

the most demanding and capricious clients, employers, allies, and scholars. It is not always

fun, but I usually get hired when a noted institution needs a near-impossible situation to be

turned around into a fully possible one. Among my clients, there has been Toyota, Mitsubishi,

World Bank, GMAC, TNT Delivery Express, Packmail, and PDVSA (CITGO’s parent company)

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and its operations in the Western Hemisphere, also leading executives of General Electrics

and Abbott Laboratories. There are, within my professional career, some 30 years of deep

thinking, pondering, researching, managing, consulting, analyzing, strategizing, empirical

experimenting / testing, as well as surveying and privately interviewing world-class business

owners, entrepreneurs, managers, thinkers, and people committed to determined creativity

and innovation, seeking to instill value to the world. I do overwhelming studying, researching

and experimenting, learning from mistakes and positive findings early. I have the luck to have

been mentored lavishly by parents, master-degree students, senior professors, researchers,

and applied scientists, among many other representatives of prominent corporations and

institutions into sophisticated technocracy. I have and always will have the greatest respect

for science and applied scientists. To the extent that I habitually undertake any initiative with

the standard scientific method (rigor with vigor and accuracy), keeping my mind always open

and updated (as much as possible) through a detailed, all-encompassing vista of challenges

and efforts. In addition and for a number of years, I have been developing and instituting my

own methodology to developmental thinking, holistic thinking, and

systemic/systematic/Gestalt, insightful discernment based on the systems methodology,

systems methodology as it is utilized by eminent exact-science practitioners. I am also into

professional development, mentoring, and teaching. It is worth remembering that I teach to

learn. On the Web – among other occupations and skills – I am into extensive blogging and

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writing. This so that I learn a bit more every time.

PS_2: All terms hereof pertains to the grandiose Shakespearean lingua franca. Others

systems, not as enriched as the latter, are ineffectual and inconsequential and not as

delightful to communicate complex thoughts unambiguously.

PS_3: All quotations not otherwise cited are from the interviews conducted by the author or

personal communications sent to the author.

PS_4: In my case, when I mention the word “secular” I do not mean to express anything at all

against God. The universal values of sacred scriptures are in due place and completely

observed. Taking responsibility is my actual reality. The permanent and rampant and

increasing violation of ethics and morality we are seeing, at all levels, makes the application

of these values a sine qua non.

Andres Agostini (Ich Bin Singularitarian!)

(High-Tech Visionary and Researching Strategist on Management/Business/Leadership)

www.AgostiniWorks.blogspot.com

www.AgostiniNews.blogspot.com

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The following are pictorial

slides to underpin the subject

matter spoken of in this

material! …

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This Pictorial and Graphic
Illustration Addresses
Change, Past, Present,
And F t
A d Future F From Th
The
Perspective of Time
Consumption and Its
Corresponding Science
Accumulation.

It does not address, in
this case, the rate of
,
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change that RISKS
PER SE instill and compound.
It is not reflected in this presentation.

As Perceived By The Mistaken Ones!

FUTURE

on
Scien Progressio
Circa:
PRESENT irrelevant, predictable.

nce
A LINEAR Time/Science Passage!
Passage!

PAST

Time Progression

Over-Summarizing The Undetailed Truth

FUTURE
By the 1950’s
and onward,

on
there is an

Scien Progressio
Circa:
irreversible
PRESENT
Cut-Off From relevant, quasi-
predictable.
HISTORY! Around Y2K and
9/11/2001

nce
A NON-LINEAR Time/Science Passage!
NON- Passage!

PAST

Time Progression

What are the non-linear dynamics?
Once the historic legacy stops
building up momentum into
gp
the scientific repository, there
is the disrupting birth of a new,
pg ,
pervasive dynamics, bathed
on complexity and exponential
p y p
growth. Let’s tackle it up,
then.
FUTURE and PRESENT get interrelated,
yes they f
h form a strong, always-progressing
l
interrelationship. To continue, we need to
think through Nietzsche's words (
hi k h hi h' d (ensuing)…
i)

“It is our FUTURE
that lays down
the LAW OF OUR
TODAY.”
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(German philosopher)

What is What?
This is the
supposed
“FUTURE”
“ ”

This is the
Thi i th
supposed
“PRESENT”


Where is The
Wh i Th
Relevance,
And the
Irrelevance?

Area of
Increasing
Relevance!
Static,
Static
and
totally
disconnected.

Hyper Dynamical,
Hyper-Dynamical,
Obsolete and
Beyond Boldest
Irrelevant
Past!
Conception.
C ti

Systems Transformation Box.
Known and Unknown Inputs Are Transformed Into
Known and Unknown, Desired/Desirable/Undesirable Outputs.


Let’s focus now on
the interrelationship
between PRESENT
b
and FUTURE.
FUTURE
The th
Th author
will make some specific
reflections to get this
g
presentation
contextualized afterwards.
afterwards.

Likely Futures Thought Through By Scenario Methods
In Order To Amplify Your Mindful Envisioning Of The
Time To Come! Subsequently, This Is For Practitioners
Subsequently,
To Get More Prepared Before a Tsunami of Changes.
Changes.

Likely Futures Thought Through By Scenario Methods
In Order To Amplify Your Mindful Envisioning Of The
Time To Come! Subsequently, This Is For Practitioners
Subsequently,
To Get More Prepared Before a Tsunami of Changes.
Changes.

PRESENT, dynamically flowing,
Outputs ALL FUTURES, likely
And real ones.
And real ones.

Likely FUTURE
Inputs Actual PRESENT.

Likely FUTURE

And real ones.
And real ones.

PRESENT, dynamically flowing, Likely FUTURE
Outputs ALL FUTURES, likely Inputs Actual PRESENT.
And real ones.
Likely FUTURE
And real ones.

Obsolete (Irrelevant) Vs. Maximum
Scientific (Relevant) Scientific
f
Accumulation

nitum
Toward Ad Infin
ds
Maximum
Obsolescent

Towards Worthless

Another way y
to consider the
PRESENT(s) and
FUTURE(S),
FUTURE(S)
as well as its complex
dynamics:
d i

Obsolete (Irrelevant) Vs. Maximum
Scientific (Relevant) Scientific
f
Accumulation
Super
Optimized

More Optimized
p

nitum
Toward Ad Infin
Optimized

ds
Maximum
Obsolescent

Towards Worthless

Are there other
considerations
to understand the
fuzzy-
fuzzy-logic character and
personality of the
forthcoming
f th i
FUTURE the soonest?
soonest?

Let s see:
Let’s see:

You know Mr. Future that
if I want to make some
solid success. You and I
must become acquaintances.
I cannot wait for you to
arrive at my site/time.
What do I have to imagine
to bring/drag your wealth of
innovation to my empowerment?
To survive and prosper I am
willing to do anything to seize
you, Mr. Future
you Mr Future. With you handy
I can dominate my industry,
foresee dangers before they
come true into a nightmare.
How can I unleash your
enigmatic powers to grasp
control of my success as I
rule out failures? I just wish
to prevail and know that
becoming your friend I can
get to the Pandora Box you
treasure so dearly, Mr. Future!

Will this guy Mr FUTURE ever
guy, Mr. FUTURE,
respond to my demands?
p y
Let’s wait and see!


What is The
Multi-Toolkit
Multi Toolkit
There to
Accomplish
Successful
FUTURES &
PRESENTS.
PRESENTS

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