The Sheer and Speediest Volume of Newness And The Permanently Changing Future-Present Interface: Deep Understanding And Practical Prescriptions

For A Daring (Man-Made And Otherwise) Third Millennium!

(Pictorially illustrated).

 

By Andres Agostini, December 12 / 2K8 - Arlington, Virginia, USA

 

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Andy: "2008’s 'Perpetual Novelty' 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, those facts eternally undergoing massively ever-increasing dynamics. This material is hence anticipated to seal a gap in the leadership and management literature.

 

No matter how many global, frenzy crises (e.g., climate, ecology, climate, geology,  economy, business, marketplace, terrorism, society, poverty, population and its transformations, demographics, globalization, geopolitics, pandemic disease, energy, science and technology, healthcare and life enhancement, biology, genetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, intelligence amplification, biotechnology, nanotechnology,  malfeasance from Wall Street/Other Stock Markets and any 'Main Street', non-stop Universe expansion―'till Big Crunch’s yoctosecond, as well as the universe, science, and technology per se, etc.) of this and that.

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

 

Pervasive measures and countermeasures –being before numerous vulnerabilities and threats 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.

 

I wonder if this public effort can be ‘BRANDED’ (communicated efficaciously and virally) in a functional 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 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 toolkit, 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 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 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, 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 into 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, 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 «the outer» space.’ I ask myself, How lengthy is ‘LONG’ for Dr. Hawking?

 

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., suboptimally). 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!

 

It means that the almost-700 billion inhabitants HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED FOR THEIR OWN SURVIVAL. In my opinion, zero magic solution, just hard, brainy work, with zero 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.

 

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, gain easily critical mass when the 7-billion souls wish to breathe and make a living and 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 THINGS [AND 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.  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) MORE COMPLEX THAN OTHER PRESENTS.

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 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.

 

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, keep in mind, ‘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 the big picture, namely the FLOWING, OVERRIDING W-H-O-L-E. If one does 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 exoskeleton.

             Abduct indiscernible falsifiable convictions.

             Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or the genome.

             Guillotine the over-weighted status quo.

             Learn how to add up—in your own mind— colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions, geometrical and amorphous shapes, enigmas, phenomena, methods, techniques, codes,  written lines, symbols, contexts, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes, hunches, so forth.

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

             Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate (multiverse teleporting) DaVinci, 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 level in your organization.

             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  stream of changes in personnel and environment.

             Mobilize the overriding energy of many others in your organization.

 

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 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, 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 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 into a fully possible. There are, within my professional career, 30 years of deep thinking, researching, managing, consulting, analyzing, strategizing, empirical experimenting/testing and researching, as well as surveying and interviewing privately world-class business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, and people committed to determined creativity and innovation. I do overwhelming studying, researching and experimenting, learning from mistakes and positive findings early. I have the luck to have been mentored lavishly by applied scientists, among many other prominent corporations and institutions. I have the greatest respect for science and applied scientists. To the extent that I habitually undertake any initiative with the scientific method, keeping my mind always open and updated through a detailed vista of challenges and efforts. In addition and for a number of years, I have been developing and instituting developmental thinking, holistic thinking, and systemic/systematic/Gestalt, insightful discernment based on the systems methodology, systems methodology as it is utilized by exact/science practitioners.

 

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.

 

Andres Agostini (Ich Bin Singularitarian!)

(c) Copyright 2008 Andres Agostini

(High-Tech Visionary and Researching Management Strategist)

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