FEBRUARY 15 AND 16/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

New live-cell printing technology improves on inkjet printing
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-live-cell-printing-technology-improves-on-inkjet-printing

Capturing ultrasharp images of multiple cell components simultaneously
http://www.kurzweilai.net/capturing-ultrasharp-images-of-multiple-cell-components-simultaneously

Red-light-sensitive protein discovery enables more complex studies of neuron interactions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/red-light-sensitive-protein-discovery-enables-more-complex-studies-of-neuron-interactions

New self-healing polymers require no chemicals or catalysts
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-self-healing-polymers-require-no-chemicals-or-catalysts

First map of core white-matter connections of human brain developed at USC
http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-map-of-core-white-matter-connections-of-human-brain-developed-at-usc

Futurists Explore the Next Horizon
http://www.wfs.org/futurist/2013-issues-futurist/november-december-2013-vol-47-no-6/futurists-explore-next-horizon

6 key trends that are accelerating the adoption of technology in higher education
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/11/6-key-trends-that-are-accelerating-the-adoption-of-technology-in-higher-education/

Silicon Valley's Next Big Goal: Fixing Our Broken Food System
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025602/rebuilding-big-food-aglocal-beyond-meat-brightfarms-farmland-lp-harvest-power

5 Famous Entrepreneurs Who Learned From Their First Spectacular Failures
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026253/dialed/5-famous-entrepreneurs-who-learned-from-their-first-spectacular-failures

Can Creativity Really Be Taught?
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026327/leadership-now/can-creativity-really-be-taught

Belgian law on euthanasia for children, with no age limit, will be first in world
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/12/belgium-legalise-euthanasia-children-age-limit?CMP=twt_gu

This Google exec’s success shows how it pays off to invest in talent
http://qz.com/176195/this-google-execs-success-shows-how-it-pays-off-to-invest-in-talent/

Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel, researchers report
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-plastic-bags-fine-diesel-fuel.html

China's 'Jade Rabbit' lunar rover declared dead: media
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-china-jade-rabbit-lunar-rover.html

Stirring-up atomtronics in a quantum circuit
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-stirring-up-atomtronics-quantum-circuit.html

Studio diip creates a fish-driven robot
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7130/Studio-diip-creates-a-fish-driven-robot.aspx

Far-reaching radars, laser-guided rockets and powerful new sensors are taking center stage this week as Raytheon shows off its latest technology at the Singapore Airshow.
http://www.raytheon.com/newsroom/feature/rtn14_singapore/index.html

Can’t Find a Steve Jobs? Hire an Innovation Organizer Instead
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/cant-find-a-steve-jobs-hire-an-innovation-organizer-instead/?utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=Socialflow

Strange Star Chemistry May Reveal Secrets of Planetary Disks
http://www.space.com/24666-strange-star-chemistry-planet-formation.html?cmpid=514648_20140213_18478324

Android's 'Open' System Has Limits
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304888404579378850231234912.html?dsk=y

Asian Stocks Drop After Longest Streak of Gains This Year
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/asian-stocks-swing-after-longest-run-of-daily-gains-this-year.html

Prediction: In the next 25 years [timeline year 2035], synthetic biology — the creation of life from nonliving chemicals designed on a computer — could produce thousands of synthetic genomes and life-forms not yet imagine
http://www.wfs.org/content/futurist/january-february-2012-vol-46-no-1/technology-predictions

World’s first genetically modified babies born
http://thechangewithin.net/2014/02/07/worlds-first-genetically-modified-babies-born/

World asleep as China tightens deflationary vice
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/10634339/World-asleep-as-China-tightens-deflationary-vice.html

Russia Tests "Total Surveillance" at the Sochi Olympics
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/02/14/russia-tests-total-surveillance-sochi-olympics.html

The Dash Builds Wearable Fitness Sensors Into The Headphones You’re Using Anyway
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/11/the-dash-builds-wearable-fitness-sensors-into-the-headphones-youre-using-anyway/

Microsoft's new task force will tackle Internet of Things and wearable tech
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-s-new-task-force-will-tackle-internet-of-things-and-wearable-tech-1223902

Psychologists Predict The Demise of Social Networks
http://socialtimes.com/psychologists-predict-demise-social-networks_b142473

Disillusioned hedonist shoppers
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/02/luxury-goods-market

This Is What Your Face Will Look Like In 2060
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026290/futurist-forum/this-is-what-your-face-will-look-like-in-2060

A Glimpse At The Mind-Reading Office Of The Future
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024164/a-glimpse-inside-the-office-of-the-future

Awesome, Immersive Exhibition Shows How Architecture Can Shape Your Senses
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/brilliant-new-ways-experience-archtiecture/

Tomorrow's Spacecraft Could Be Made of the Same Bone You Are
http://gizmodo.com/tomorrows-spacecraft-could-be-made-of-the-same-bone-yo-1521614272

It’s official: Apple sells more computers than all Windows PCs combined
http://qz.com/176643/its-official-apple-sells-more-computers-than-all-windows-pcs-combined/

Why Google Is Investing In Deep Learning
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026423/why-google-is-investing-in-deep-learning

Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
http://techonomy.com/2014/02/surround-computing-change-lives/

We’re One Step Closer to Nuclear Fusion Energy
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/fusion-power-not-yet/

Stop “Fixing” Women and Start Fixing Managers
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/stop-fixing-women-and-start-fixing-managers/?utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=Socialflow

Singapore is becoming a favorite stop for China’s top tech firms
http://thenextweb.com/asia/2014/02/13/singapore-is-becoming-a-favorite-stop-for-chinas-top-tech-firms/?awesm=tnw.to_q1Erw&utm_medium=Spreadus&utm_campaign=social%20media&utm_source=Twitter

Cybersecurity guidelines for companies are unveiled by White House
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cyber-security-20140213,0,3027325.story#ixzz2tBH36ygw

There is no more B2B or B2C: It’s Human to Human, #H2H
http://bryankramer.com/there-is-no-more-b2b-or-b2c-its-human-to-human-h2h/

Facebook Testing 'Water Taxi' to Shuttle Employees From San Francisco
http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/facebook-ferry/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

A future cochlear implant with no exterior hardware required
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-future-cochlear-implant-with-no-exterior-hardware-required

Scientists achieve fuel gain exceeding unity in confined fusion implosion
http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-achieve-fuel-gain-exceeding-unity-in-confined-fusion-implosion

Your virtual avatar can impact your real-world behavior, researchers suggest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/your-virtual-avatar-can-impact-your-real-world-behavior-researchers-suggest

Here’s the enormous hangar Google bought to fill with robots
http://qz.com/176551/heres-the-enormous-hangar-google-bought-to-fill-with-robots/

45 Million Smartwatches Expected to Ship by 2017
http://mashable.com/2014/02/13/wearable-device-shipments/

The lasers fuelling hopes of unlimited, clean nuclear energy
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-lasers-fuelling-hopes-of-unlimited-clean-nuclear-energy-9124237.html

Here’s What Would Make Google’s Smartwatch Awesome
http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/07/heres-what-would-make-googles-smartwatch-awesome/?source=gravity

QUOTATION(S): “...If you are not failing frequently, you are not succeeding enough...”  AND  “...Denial is tragic. Delay is deadly ...”   AND  “...It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive....”   AND   “...To solve a very complicated problem,   you generally need a fairly complicated solution [in advance]..."

CITATION(S): “...Funny thing, our mind. The moment our software catches up, the mind seems to travel beyond the capability of the software .... [However,] Our minds focus on renditions, darling, not the underlying algorithm. Your analysts and programmers have to deal with algorithm that produces new renditions...”  AND  “...In a few hundred years, when the story of our [current] time is written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce [not ‘social media’ ─ so-called]. IT IS AN UNPRECEDENTED CHANGE IN THE HUMAN CONDITION. FOR THE FIRST TIME ─ LITERALLY ─ SUBSTANTIAL AND GROWING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE HAVE CHOICES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THEY WILL HAVE TO MANAGE THEMSELVES. AND SOCIETY IS TOTALLY UNPREPARED FOR IT...”   AND    “...The political world promises change and the digital world delivers it. And when that change potentially affects our privacy and freedom, we should all pay attention. This is a fascinating, provocative and thoroughly readable look into an uncertain future...”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (11) Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate ASAP (multiverse teleporting out of a warped / wormed passage) Da Vinci, Bacon, Newton, Goethe, Bonaparte, Edison, Franklyn, Churchill, Einstein, and Feynman. (12) Organize relationships into voluntary associations that are mutually beneficial and accountable for contributing productively to the surrounding community. (13) Practice the central rule of good strategy, which is to know and remain true to your core business and invest for leadership and R&D+Innovation. (14) Kaisen, SixSigma, Lean, LeanSigma, “...Reliability Engineer...” (the latter as solely conceived and developed by Procter & Gamble and Los Alamos National Laboratories) it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant, a là Einstein Gedanke-motorized judgment (that is to say:  Einsteinian Gedanke [“...thought experiments...”]. (15) Provide a road-map / blueprint for drastically compressing (‘crashing’) the time’s ‘reticules’ it will take you to get on the top of your tenure, nonetheless of your organizational level. (16) With the required knowledge and relationships embedded in organizations, create support for, and carry out transformational initiatives.

BOOK(S): Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman. ISBN-13: 978-1605292076

Regards,

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



(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

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

Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image Recognition Will Change Everything
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-medias-big-data-future--from-deep-learning-to-predictive-marketing-2014-2?cid=tw_inn_feb14

EU Rules Mean That 'Children Can't Get Life-Saving Cancer Drugs'
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/11/eu-rules-children-cancer-drugs_n_4762830.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

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

Here's What California's Historic Drought Will Do To The Economy
http://www.businessinsider.com/california-drought-economy-2014-2#ixzz2t3NVIAyL

Digital Currency Woes: Second Bitcoin Exchange Halts Withdrawals
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/digital-currency-woes-second-bitcoin-exchange-halts-withdrawals-n27776

The GMAT: An exam with greater profit margins than Apple
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/11/gmat-exam-profit-margins-apple/?utm_content=bufferacac5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

DIA Director Lt. Gen Michael Flynn on Current and Future Worldwide Threats Testimony Before the Senate Armed Services Committee
http://www.dia.mil/News/SpeechesandTestimonies/tabid/7031/Article/8023/dia-director-lt-gen-michael-flynn-on-current-and-future-worldwide-threats-testi.aspx

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/many-promising-embryonic-stem-cell-therapies-ensnared-legal-loophole?dom=PSC&loc=topstories&con=many-promising-embryonic-stem-cell-therapies-ensnared-in-legal-loophole

Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else)
http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/zero-moment/why-robot-trucks-could-be-headed-afghanistan-and-everywhere-else?dom=PSC&loc=topstories&con=why-robot-trucks-could-be-headed-to-afghanistan-and-everywhere-else

Salvadoran Newspaper Sends Drone To Cover Presidential Election
http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/salvadoran-newspaper-sends-drone-cover-presidential-election

Interactive Infographic: The Search For Other Earths
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/interactive-infographic-search-other-earths

Possible Link Found Between Bacterium And Multiple Sclerosis
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/possible-link-found-between-bacterium-and-multiple-sclerosis

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

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

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

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

'Brazil Is Not A Civilized Country' Says The Country's Most Controversial News Anchor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andersonantunes/2014/02/10/brazil-is-not-a-civilized-country-says-the-countrys-most-controversial-news-anchor/

Inside Google's Mysterious Ethics Board
http://www.forbes.com/sites/privacynotice/2014/02/03/inside-googles-mysterious-ethics-board/?ss=transform-tech

Looking To Amazon, BuildDirect Raises $30M To Take On Home Improvement Giants
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2014/01/21/buildirect-raises-30m/?ss=transform-tech

Don't Believe The Innovation Cliché: Think Outside The Box But Stay Inside It
http://www.forbes.com/sites/dileeprao/2014/02/03/dont-believe-the-cliche-think-outside-the-box-but-stay-inside-it/?ss=rethinking-risk

Former NSA Security Architect Pushes Email Encryption For The Masses
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2014/02/10/former-nsa-security-architect-pushes-email-encryption-for-the-masses/?ss=rethinking-risk

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

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

The Felino cB7 is a Racers Dream, Will it Transition from Track to Road?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7117/The-Felino-cB7-is-a-Racers-Dream-Will-it-Transition-from-Track-to-Road.aspx

The Naval Postgraduate School Focuses on Systems Engineering
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/ArticleID/7118/The-Naval-Postgraduate-School-Focuses-on-Systems-Engineering.aspx

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

The New World’s Most Powerful Laser Can Destroy Any Planet Humans Want
http://wonderfulengineering.com/the-new-worlds-most-powerful-laser-can-destroy-any-planet-humans-want/

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

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

Strategies for Sustainable Business
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/strategies_for_sustainable_business/55

Leading Change in Complex Organizations
http://executive.mit.edu/openenrollment/program/leading_change_in_complex_organizations/22

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

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

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

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

Regards,

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

(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

FEBRUARY 13/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Is your boss watching you? Surveillance device tracks employees' movements in the office, sends details of conversations and even times their toilet breaks
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552858/Workplace-surveillance-device-tracks-employees-movements-office-sending-boss-details-conversations-colleagues-long-time-spend-toilet.html

New software lets you mark places as off-limits for wearable camera gadgets like Google Glass.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/523941/not-ok-glass/

Seeing as a Service. Forget Augmented Reality. What About Diminished Reality?
https://medium.com/futures-exchange/403771297f5f

Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars
http://futuretimeline.net/blog/2014/02/4.htm#.UvpE9oWGiHd

Africa: the sun rises on the next exploration hot spot
http://business-reporter.co.uk/2014/02/africa-the-sun-rises-on-the-next-exploration-hot-spot/

NSA failed to detect Snowden’s unsophisticated insider attack
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240214065/NSA-failed-to-detect-Snowdens-unsophisticated-insider-attack

Inside Intel: Pay for Performance Questioned
http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/02/11/inside-intel-pay-for-performance-questioned/

Trustworthy Computing
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/twc/privacy/data-governance.aspx

4 Benefits of Sales Gamification
http://www.inc.com/4-reasons-sales-gamification-works.html

Rotavirus Vaccines — Balancing Intussusception Risks and Health Benefits
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1315836

Technology Vision 2014: Become a Digital Disruptor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_0LcJQQxKs&sf22623388=1

The sun’s violent insides revealed: Iris probe takes a detailed look beneath the star’s surface
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2556638/The-suns-violent-insides-revealed-Iris-probe-takes-detailed-look-beneath-stars-tempestuous-surface.html#ixzz2t1w6yxeD

How Startups Can Tap Into Google's Secret Sauce: OKRs
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231202#ixzz2t1wLmajI

Statement for the Record - Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/testimonies/203-congressional-testimonies-2014/1015-statement-for-the-record-worldwide-threat-assessment-of-the-us-intelligence-community-sasc?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Special Operations Command Wants X-Prize to Develop 'Iron Man' Suit
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=7c996cd7-cbb4-4018-baf8-8825eada7aa2&ID=1405&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationaldefensemagazine.org%2Fblog%2FLists%2FPosts%2FAllPosts.aspx#.UvpHAQkfiek.twitter

Has America lost its ability to dream big?
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/11/peter-thiel-has-america-lost-its-ability-to-dream-big/

Google on NSA: We Need Rules, Transparency and Oversight
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/google-nsa-protests/

New Processor to Bring High-End Features to Cheap Smartphones
http://mashable.com/2014/02/11/arm-cortex-a17-mediatek/

NASA, Deloitte To Bring Space-Age Risk Management To Oil And Gas Industry
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2013/J13-014.html#.UvpPzIWGiHc

Google-Backed Asteroid Mining Venture Attracts Billionaires
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-06/google-backed-asteroid-mining-venture-adds-billionaire-investors.html

Tech Investor to Entrepreneurs: A Harvard Degree Is a Liability
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/tech-investor-to-entrepreneurs-a-harvard-degree-is-a-liability/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Raytheon receives $31 million Maverick missile contract from South Korea
http://raytheon.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2518

What Cold War CIA Interrogators Learned from the Nazis
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/11/what-cold-war-cia-interrogators-learned-from-the-nazis.html

Would Bill Gates Artificially Prolong His Life? His Surprising (And Inspiring) Answer
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/bill-gates-reddit-2014-ama_n_4762894.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000046

How Bill Gates Radically Transformed His Public Speaking And Communication Skills
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2014/02/07/how-bill-gates-radically-transformed-his-public-speaking-and-communication-skills/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

How to Get Investors to Move Faster
http://www.inc.com/kevin-daum/playbook-speeding-up-investors.html?cid=sf01001

The Myth of Similar Successful Qualities
http://editorialiv.com/2014/01/19/the-myth-of-similar-successful-qualities/

Unconventional Energy and U.S. National Security: A Conversation on Energy and Security
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1YqcEgI1yY&feature=youtu.be&a

5 Attributes to Look for in High-Performing Employees
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231383#ixzz2t2794ydq

PayPal President's credit card hacked for shopping spree
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/10/paypal-ceo-credit-card-hacked/5367979/

Let One Good Thing Lead To Another
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211050133-15208484-let-one-good-thing-lead-to-another?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_1

Innovating at Scale: Building Trust
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140211161638-1940438-innovating-at-scale-building-trust?trk=tod-home-art-list-small_3

Corporate Social Responsibility’s New Role in the Middle East
http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00234?rssid=all_updates&gko=b365d

Moving from novice techie to Subject Matter Expert
http://www.itworld.com/career/404383/moving-novice-techie-subject-matter-expert

How To Get Your Employees to Think Strategically
http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/how-to-foster-strategic-thinking-in-employees.html

Is The Corporate Website Dead?
http://www.b2bmarketinginsider.com/content-marketing/corporate-website-dead

New advance in 3-D printing and tissue engineering technology
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140210184719.htm

HHS to fund development of drug for bioterrorism, antimicrobial-resistant infections
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140210-hhs-to-fund-development-of-drug-for-bioterrorism-antimicrobialresistant-infections

Scientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140211084051.htm

Three things Bill Gates wishes he could have done 20 years ago
http://qz.com/175616/three-things-bill-gates-wishes-he-could-have-done-20-years-ago/

QUOTATION(S):  “...People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already.  But it hasn’t...”  AND  “...The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind,   BUT HOW TO GET OLD ONES OUT ...”

CITATION(S): “...We live in strange times, in case you have not noticed. Here we are with our home computers and other high-tech appliances, living what we regard as a normal life … The world we are living in ─ a world that couples Homo sapiens with fast-paced hypertechnology ─ is strange to us because sometimes it feels like what it is, a transient dream  ....  We are dreaming a strange, waking dream; an inevitably brief interlude sandwiched between the long age of low-tech humanity on the one hand, and the age of human beings transcended on the other. We are living in the latter days of humanity; cybertechnologies will quickly replace us. Just inches of time away exists a speedy reality bearing down on us that we may sense, but do not show on our faces  ....  While one may be made uncomfortable by the thought of a truly strange 21st century, there is around us an impending sense of arrival ─ a strangeness in the air, an uneasiness, a feeling that deep down, things are starting to change in swift, fundamental ways too fuzzy to put a finger on. More than just the onset of the third millennium, it is the quiet before the storm. The products of technology are becoming more curious ─ a little too smart, a little too fast. It’s downright unsettling. And, hey, people aren’t dumb. They know that we have just begun to build smart dumb machines; soon it will be dumb smart machines. Where will it stop? If we continue to build machines smarter than the last ones, and then one that is smarter than that and so on ─ well, you do not have to be a particle physicist to see that the machines cannot keep getting smarter and smarter, yet forever remain dumber than us. Garry ‘John Henry’ Kasparov, chess Grand Master, lost a championship game to a machine for the first time in history this year. Perhaps someday, we’ll hear the battle cry of humanity rallying in desperation: ‘Remember Deep Blue’...”

NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPAL (TENETS) TO SEIZE PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS: (1) Picture mentally, radiantly. (2) Draw outside the canvas. (3) Color outside the vectors. (4) Sketch sinuously. (5) Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton.

BOOK(S): The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr. ISBN-13: 978-0393339758

Regards,

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



(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

FEBRUARY 12/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
X-ray imaging protein molecules at atomic resolution using a graphene cage
http://www.kurzweilai.net/x-ray-imaging-protein-molecules-at-atomic-resolution-using-a-graphene-cage
Wearable ‘neurocam’ records scenes when it detects user interest
http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-neurocam-records-scenes-when-it-detects-user-interest
Searching space dust for minute quantities of life’s ingredients
http://www.kurzweilai.net/searching-space-dust-for-minute-quantities-of-lifes-ingredients
For landmine detection, Bogota designers think with their feet (1:52)
http://uk.reuters.com/video/2014/02/09/for-landmine-detection-bogota-designers?videoId=276765665&videoChannel=4000
DHS takes new approach to troubled TECS modernization
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/dhs-takes-new-approach-troubled-tecs-modernization/2014-02-09#ixzz2svhTZcHz
Scientists develop potential new drug treatment to tackle viruses
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-scientists-potential-drug-treatment-tackle.html
Nanotechnology researchers control artificial nanomotors inside living cells
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34335.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nanowerk%2FagWB+%28Nanowerk+Nanotechnology+News%29
Humans Teaching Machine Learning
http://www.adallom.com/blog/humans-teaching-machine-learning/
Pentagon vexed by inability to solve ethics lapses
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/pentagon-scandals-military-ethics-103302.html
New programming language removes human error from privacy equation
https://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2166
Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/features/caltech-secrets-of-the-worlds-number-one-university/2011008.fullarticle
Optogenetic toolkit goes multicolor. New light-sensitive proteins allow scientists to study how multiple sets of neurons interact with each other
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2014/optogenetic-toolkit-goes-multicolor-0209.html
Why Do Nerds Become Successful CEOs?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/quickerbettertech/2014/02/10/why-do-nerds-become-successful-ceos/
The government drone is on its way: UAE plans to use biometric quadcopters for ID card delivery
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/10/the-government-drone-is-on-its-way-uae-plans-to-use-biometric-quadcopters-for-id-card-delivery/
Alibaba offers to buy digital mapping company AutoNavi
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-autonavi-offer-idUSBREA190XB20140210?feedType=RSS&feedName=vcMedia&virtualBrandChannel=10109&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=59213
H7N9 vaccine proves effective on lab mice
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2014-02/09/c_133101225.htm
Reinventing Social Media: Deep Learning, Predictive Marketing, And Image Recognition Will Change Everything
http://www.businessinsider.com/social-medias-big-data-future--from-deep-learning-to-predictive-marketing-2014-2
World's First Entanglement-Enhanced Microscope
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/524521/worlds-first-entanglement-enhanced-microscope/?utm_campaign=socialsync&utm_medium=social-post&utm_source=twitter
Conserved nuclear envelope protein uses a shuttle service to travel between job sites
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-nuclear-envelope-protein-shuttle-job.html
From Gadgets To Galaxies: Conference Reports
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/from-gadgets-to-galaxies-conference-reports/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Zero-sum politics
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595973-voters-think-both-parties-are-telling-truth-about-how-awful-other-lot-are-zero-sum?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/zerosumpolitics
Striking Photos Go Deep Inside the European Space Program
http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2014/02/european-space-agency-edgar-martins/?cid=co18332984#slide-id-139871
Tech innovation vs. the surveillance state: How it's playing out in Washington
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/tech-innovation-vs-the-surveillance-state-how-its-playing-out-in-washington/
CHART OF THE DAY: Europe's Share Of Global Profits Is At A 28-Year Low
http://www.businessinsider.com/europes-share-of-msci-world-earnings-2014-2
Bitcoin Bug Prompts Pricing Freefall
http://mashable.com/2014/02/10/bitcoin-bug-prompts-pricing-freefall/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link
Administration weighs drone strike against American citizen
http://thehill.com/blogs/defcon-hill/policy-strategy/197898-us-debates-drone-strike-against-american-working-with-al
We're about to get a new composites manufacturing robot, engineers tell
https://twitter.com/NASA_Langley/status/432894281389727744/photo/1
Design and strategy in organic synthesis
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2014/02/design-strategy-organic-synthesis-hanessian-giroux-merner
10 things not to buy in 2014
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-things-not-to-buy-in-2014-2013-12-27?link=sfmw_sm
Worried sick: What's up with today's rampant anxiety?
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129550.800-worried-sick-whats-up-with-todays-rampant-anxiety.html#.UvjqkmJ_vis?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL-twitter
Why Traffic To These Google Alternatives Is Soaring
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2014/02/10/why-traffic-to-these-google-alternatives-is-soaring/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
How We Created a Network of STEM Teachers
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2014/02/05/20gillespie.h33.html?tkn=MPXF2Ei34duPqRwqaOfyzga8TzDkXgpm1eRr&cmp=clp-edweek
An Austrian Artist Has Completely Reinvented The Door
http://www.businessinsider.com/klemens-torgglers-kinectic-door-2014-2
Dyson's vision for future robots
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/dysons-vision-for-future-robots
Terrific Tech: 10 Futuristic Advances in Robotics
http://weburbanist.com/2012/02/01/terrific-tech-10-futuristic-advances-in-robotics/
3D-printed hip implant lets teenager walk again
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-hip-implant/30763/
3D-printed pizza – a quick and easy meal for astronauts?
http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-pizza-astronauts/30685/
The Year Man Becomes Immortal
http://content.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,2048601,00.html
Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/01/23/do-you-trust-internet-connected-appliances-enough-to-let-them-run-your-home/
US Lead in Science And Technology Shrinking
http://www.sciencenewsline.com/summary/2014020622520037.html
New Blood Pressure Tracking Device Works with Smartphone
http://www.21stcentech.com/gizmos-gadgets-blood-pressure-tracking-device-works-smartphone/
New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events
http://www.21stcentech.com/headlines-journal-article-sheds-light-earth-warming-events/
“More than 93 percent of the warming of the planet since 1970 is found in the ocean”
http://www.21stcentech.com/more-93-percent-warming-planet-1970-ocean/
U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another
http://singularityhub.com/2014/02/05/u-s-agencies-take-significant-step-toward-wirelessly-connecting-vehicles-to-one-another/
5 most incredible discoveries of the week
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/08/newser-incredible-discoveries/5312059/
‘Natural cities’ emerge from location-based social media
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/08/natural-cities-emerge-from-location-based-social-media/
The real promise of big data: It’s changing the whole way humans will solve problems
http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/09/the-real-promise-of-big-data-its-changing-the-whole-way-humans-will-solve-problems/
Text, Chat, Profit: Tencent Launches Investing on WeChat
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2014/01/22/text-chat-profit-tencent-launches-investing-on-wechat/
The CEO’s Perfect Storm: Demographics, Data, and Devices Change Everything
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140210140304-178173598-the-ceo-s-perfect-storm-demographics-data-and-devices-change-everything
Is Amazon entering the mobile payment war?
http://www.brickmeetsclick.com/is-amazon-entering-the-mobile-payment-war-
Digital health partnership marries clinical and sensor data for more proactive senior care
http://medcitynews.com/2014/02/caremerge-lively-partnership-will-marry-clinical-sensor-data-proactive-senior-care/#ixzz2sxdtRvIL
Chips Break Sales Record in 2013
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1320876
QUOTATION(S):  “...We won’t just experience 100 years of progress in the twenty-first century ─ it will be more like 20,000 years of progress...”
CITATION(S): “...If it seems like your world has been topsy-turvy over the past few years … Consider what’s coming. Your genetic code will be imprinted on and ID card … For better and worse. Medicines will be tailored to your genes and will help prevent specific diseases for which you may be at risk. (But … your insurance company and your prospective employer may also find out that you are genetically disposed to, say, heart disease, or breast cancer, or Alzheimer’s.)...”  AND  “...The lesson of the last three decades is that nobody can drive to the future on cruise control...”
BOOK(S): Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now by Douglas Rushkoff. ISBN-13: 978-1591844761
Regards,
Mr. Andres Agostini
Risk-Management Futurist
and Success Consultant
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC




(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

FEBRUARY 11/2014 LIST OF UPDATES.

 

London's first computer, the fastest in the world at 1MHz. May, 1950

https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/432384378761908224/photo/1

 

TECH NOW: A drone for every home?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2014/02/08/tech-now-personal-drones/5264883/

 

Russian authorities say Bitcoin illegal

http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20140209&id=17333977

 

See how dangerous a toothpaste tube bomb can be - CNN.com Video

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2014/02/06/tsr-dnt-todd-toothpaste-tube-bomb.cnn-ap&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher&video_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fsa%3Dt%26rct%3Dj%26q%3D%26esrc%3Ds%26source%3Dweb%26cd%3D1%26ved%3D0CCMQtwIwAA%26url%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Frss.cnn.com%252F~r%252Frss%252Fcnn_topstories%252F~3%252FMQs8eTNhB7M%252Ftsr-dnt-todd-toothpaste-tube-bomb.cnn-ap.html%26ei%3Duk_4UqHPGtSKkAezpoGYCA%26usg%3DAFQjCNFl3VQfa3KLIgKrLqzUtxkTi5c_uQ%26bvm%3Dbv.60983673%2Cd.eW0

 

Passenger claiming to have bomb tried to divert plane to Sochi

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/7/passenger-bomb-claim-tried-divert-plane-sochi/

 

Tech expert discusses cyberattacks’ far-reaching consequences

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/40152/tech_expert_discusses_cyberattacks%E2%80%99_far_reach_reac

 

A new tech solution to the BYOD security dilemma

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/40142/new_tech_solution_byod_security_dilemma

 

How Offensive Cyber Security is Changing the Industry

https://communities.intel.com/community/itpeernetwork/blog/2013/10/08/how-offensive-cyber-security-is-changing-the-industry

 

Bill Would Provide Comprehensive Study of Electric Grid Resiliency

http://www.hstoday.us/industry-news/general/single-article/bill-would-provide-comprehensive-study-of-electric-grid-resiliency/c19bb6d668550bb86e0e5c025261119c.html

 

Top US Homeland Security Priorities For Congress In 2014 – Analysis

http://www.eurasiareview.com/09022014-top-us-homeland-security-priorities-congress-2014-analysis/

 

Exposed: Barclays account details for sale as 'gold mine' of up to 27,000 files is leaked in worst breach of bank data EVER

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554875/Barclays-account-details-sale-gold-27-000-files-leaked.html

 

NSA Leaks May Slow Cybersecurity Detente. Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge not optimistic on a future cybersecurity treaty.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/03/nsa-leaks-may-slow-cybersecurity-detente

 

BPC to Release Electric Grid Cybersecurity Recommendations

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/news/press-releases/2014/02/bpc-release-electric-grid-cybersecurity-recommendations

 

FEMA Enlists Designers to Rethink Disaster Relief

http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/fema-frog-teamed-redesign-disaster-relief/

 

London Ambulance picks its best and brightest to be 'super paramedics'

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/london-ambulance-picks-its-best-and-brightest-to-be-super-paramedics-9111109.html

 

The United States Makes It Clear That It Sides With Japan Over China

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/us-sides-with-japan-over-china-2014-2

 

One day you won’t need a badge to enter your building, just a SIM card

http://gigaom.com/2014/02/07/one-day-you-wont-need-a-badge-to-enter-your-building-just-a-sim-card/

 

Snowden’ leaks derailed important cybersecurity initiatives

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140206-snowden-leaks-derailed-important-cybersecurity-initiatives

 

Attack on California power station heightens concerns about grid security

http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140207-attack-on-california-power-station-heightens-concerns-about-grid-security

 

Homeland Security Agenda

http://www.c-span.org/video/?317653-1/HomelandSecurityAge

 

Microsoft's Kinect Is Being Used To Help Guard The Korean DMZ

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-kinect-is-helping-monitor-the-dmz-2014-2

 

Are Evacuation Practices Flawed?

http://www.securitymanagement.com/article/are-evacuation-practices-flawed-0013108

 

North Korea Built A Fleet Of Mobile Missile Launchers Out Of Chinese Trucks

http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-has-mobile-missile-launchers-2014-2

 

Washington Responds to Cybersecurity Threats with Recommendations and Legislation

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/washington-responds-cybersecurity-threats-recommendations-legislation

 

DHS chief says Syria is a US homeland security threat

http://www.firstpost.com/world/dhs-chief-says-syria-is-a-us-homeland-security-threat-1379415.html?utm_source=ref_article

 

DHS prepares for hypothetical immigration reform

http://www.fiercehomelandsecurity.com/story/dhs-prepares-hypothetical-immigration-reform/2014-02-07

 

Target attack shows danger of remotely accessible HVAC systems

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246111/Target_attack_shows_danger_of_remotely_accessible_HVAC_systems

 

Big Data skills pay top dollar

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246120/Big_Data_skills_pay_top_dollar

 

NSA is collecting less than 30 percent of U.S. call data, officials say

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-is-collecting-less-than-30-percent-of-us-call-data-officials-say/2014/02/07/234a0e9e-8fad-11e3-b46a-5a3d0d2130da_story.html

 

The Future Of Data Mining Your Health

http://disinfo.com/2013/07/the-future-of-data-mining-your-health/

 

From Windows to the Xbox: Bill Gates' 'pioneering' impact

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/04/tech/innovation/bill-gates-microsoft-impact/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

 

Why Americans love prepaid cards

http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/06/pf/prepaid-cards/index.html?source=cnn_bin

 

The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global edition

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-most-powerful-women.fortune/index.html?source=cnn_bin

 

January Jobs Report: U.S. Creates 113,000 Jobs, Unemployment Rate Dips To 6.6%

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/07/january-jobs-report-unemployment-rate_n_4740294.html?hpt=hp_bn8

 

Exposing a Corporate Trend in Higher Education in Germany

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/world/europe/exposing-a-corporate-trend-in-higher-education-in-germany.html?hpw&rref=education&_r=0

 

Human Noise Disturbs Different Fish in Different Ways

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2014/02/09/human-noise-disturbs-different-fish-in-different-ways/

 

Scientific American at the World Economic Forum in Davos

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/at-scientific-american/2014/02/09/scientific-american-at-the-world-economic-forum-in-davos/

 

Categorising bacteria in purple and pink

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/lab-rat/2014/02/09/categorising-bacteria-in-purple-and-pink/

 

Black Widows Have More Control Over Their Attacks Than You Think

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/not-bad-science/2014/02/08/black-widows-have-more-control-than-you-think-over-their-attacks/

 

The Impact of TED Talks

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/information-culture/2014/02/08/the-impact-of-ted-talks/

 

Human Footprints Discovered on England’s Coast Are Oldest Outside Africa

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2014/02/07/human-footprints-discovered-on-englands-coast-are-oldest-outside-africa/

 

5 Everyday Products Developed from NASA Technology – The Countdown, Episode 41

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-countdown/2014/02/07/5-everyday-products-developed-from-nasa-technology-the-countdown-episode-41/

 

“The Perfect Theory”: The story of general relativity, and what makes something a science

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction/2014/02/05/the-perfect-theory-the-story-of-general-relativity-and-what-makes-something-a-science/

 

40 years ago: our sister planet revealed

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2014/02/05/40-years-ago-our-sister-planet-revealed/

 

Are Parallel Universes Unscientific Nonsense? Insider Tips for Criticizing the Multiverse

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2014/02/04/are-parallel-universes-unscientific-nonsense-insider-tips-for-criticizing-the-multiverse/

 

New Book Cuts Through Fog of Hype Cloaking Cyberwar

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/02/04/new-book-cuts-through-fog-of-hype-cloaking-cyberwar/

 

Special Report: Dream Jobs 2014

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/special-report-dream-jobs-2014

 

Lockheed Martin Shows Off High-Power Fiber Laser Weapon

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/aerospace/military/lockheed-martin-shows-off-highpower-fiber-laser-weapon

 

Milestone Tests Help Refurbish Dwindling U.S. Nuclear Arsenal

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/milestone-tests-help-refurbish-dwindling-us-nuclear-arsenal

 

Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC?

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/schaft-robot-company-bought-by-google-darpa-robotics-challenge-winner

 

Internet Giants Disclose FISA Surveillance Requests For Customer Data

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/internet-giants-disclose-fisa-surveillance-requests-for-customer-data

 

India Aims High With 4-Gigawatt Solar Plant

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/green-tech/solar/india-aims-high-with-fourgigawatt-solar-plant

 

Sony’s Jun Rekimoto Dreams Up Gadgets for the Far Future

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/sonys-jun-rekimoto-dreams-up-gadgets-for-the-far-future

 

Amputee Successfully Feels Prosthetic Grip Strength Via Arm Electrodes

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/bionics/sensitive-prosthetic-hand-gets-a-grip

 

Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Tech Will Be Mandatory, say Feds

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/green-tech/advanced-cars/vehicle-to-vehicle-tech-will-be-mandatory-say-feds

 

Marsupial Robot Team Monitors Rivers From Water and Air

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/marsupial-robot-team-monitors-rivers-from-water-and-air

 

Road Salt Sensor for Better Highway Safety, Less Environmental Damage

http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/at-work/test-and-measurement/road-salt-sensor-better-highway-safety-less-environmental-damage

 

Hybrid Generator Would Cut Military Base Fuel Costs in Half

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/aerospace/military/hybrid-generator-would-cut-military-base-fuel-costs-in-half

 

F-35 Software: DoD's Chief Tester Remains Unimpressed

http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/f35-software-dods-chief-tester-remains-unimpressed

 

QUOTATION(S):  “...The FUTURE is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed...”  AND  “...The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you...” AND “...I’m deglitched that the future is unsure. That’s the way it should be...”

 

CITATION(S): “...From Conventional Wisdom to Shocking Probability. Maybe someday, sooner or later, truly intelligent machines will be built. Until that time, speculation will abound. Much of that speculation is based on what might be called ‘Conventional Wisdom,’ the underlying assumptions and conventions we collectively share. We can list some of these assumptions as follows: The next century will be an extension of this one, with increasingly smarter machines being run by people and for people … Because the human mind is linked to a soul, cybernetic machines will never be fully self-aware like we are … If intelligent robots can be built, it will be a long time before they can be made to do what humans do, as well as humans do it. Perhaps centuries will be required … Even after intelligent robots are made, multitudes of humans will continue to exist on earth, and maybe even in space … Human minds and personal identities will never be able to merge with an electromechanical system … Even if it were possible, we humans would refuse to download our minds onto hardware, no matter how tempting and intelligent the new surroundings might be. We believe that cyberbeings will be emotionless, soulless, and humorless mechanical zombies ─ rather like ‘Star Trek’s’ Lt. Commander Data, a somewhat sad android pining for a humanity he will never achieve … No matter how smart they are, digital minds will never have the insight, intuition, and smooth savvy of the human mind. They will forever remain mentally inferior, and our faithful, self- maintaining servants … The robots will soon prove our mental and physical superiors. Self-generated enhancements will refine them beyond our control. They will enslave us all except, of course, for a renegade band of rebellious, young, good-looking, daring humans armed with battered, recycled surplus weapons, fearlessly following their craggy but wise leader into a fight for truth, justice, and the hominid way … THIS BOOK ARGUES THAT THE NEXT CENTURY WILL PROVE TO BE NOTHING LIKE THIS ONE, NOR ANY FORECAST SO FAR. COMPUTING POWER, NEUROSCIENCE, AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES ARE ADVANCING SO RAPIDLY THAT THEY WILL COMBINE TO PRODUCE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ITSELF … WE MAINTAIN THAT THE HUMAN MIND AND CONSCIOUS THOUGHT ARE EXCLUSIVELY NATURAL AND PHYSICAL IN ORIGIN AND NATURE. ULTIMATELY, THEIR NATURES AND FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES ARE KNOWABLE AND CAN BE REPLICATED FOR THE PURPOSES OF PERSONAL IMMORTALITY...”

 

BOOK(S): Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier. ISBN-13: 978-0544002692

(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini

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

 

UPDATE 1-China central bank urges proper management of risk, liquidity

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/08/china-economy-cenbank-idUSL3N0LD08720140208

 

Iran sending warships close to U.S. borders

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/iran-warships-us-borders-103288.html

 

Apple’s Tim Cook on Plans for Cash and Emerging Markets

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/02/07/apple-still-a-growth-company-cook-says-in-journal-interview/

 

World's first 3D-printed titanium bicycle frame could lead to cheaper, lighter bikes

http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printed-titanium-bicycle-frame/30760/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed

 

Ignore the Unemployment Rate. The most totemic statistic about the U.S. economy is archaic and misleading

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579364852603962422?mod=rss_economy&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303496804579364852603962422.html%3Fmod%3Drss_economy

 

Why Problems Are An Entrepreneur's Best Friend

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janbruce/2014/01/28/why-problems-are-an-entrepreneurs-best-friend/

 

Gastric surgery increases risk of alcoholism

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/gastric-surgery-increases-risk-of-alcoholism-9117066.html

 

Snowden nicked NSA docs with common tool, raising more concern about agency -- report

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57618608-38/snowden-nicked-nsa-docs-with-common-tool-raising-more-concern-about-agency-report/

 

Tribeca and CERN Want To Change Storytelling With A Hackathon

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026107/tribeca-and-cern-want-to-change-storytelling-with-a-hackathon?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

 

3D Printed Hip Implant Allows Teen to Finally Walk

http://3dprint.com/3d-printed-hip-implant-allows-teen-to-finally-walk/

 

Many Promising Embryonic Stem Cell Therapies Ensnared In Legal Loophole

http://www.popsci.com/article/science/many-promising-embryonic-stem-cell-therapies-ensnared-legal-loophole?src=SOC&dom=tw

 

High Potential for Life Circling Alpha Centauri B, our Nearest Neighbor

http://www.universetoday.com/108865/high-potential-for-life-circling-alpha-centauri-b-our-nearest-neighbor/#ixzz2smSuT6N4

 

Countervailing motion

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595937-fed-may-be-tapering-central-banks-japan-and-europe-are-still

 

Toyota's $1 Billion Fine Begs Question: Do We Really Want To Regulate This Way?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielfisher/2014/02/08/toyotas-1-billion-fine-begs-question-do-we-really-want-to-regulate-this-way/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

 

Single-pole magnet emerges in frozen concoction

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/single-pole-magnet-emerges-frozen-concoction

 

The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business: Global edition

http://money.cnn.com/gallery/leadership/2014/02/06/global-most-powerful-women.fortune/index.html?utm_content=buffer57fa8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

How To Win When You Fail

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231260

 

How the speed of technological change can be an opportunity

http://fcw.com/articles/2014/02/05/smith-speed-of-change.aspx

 

Welcome to the Multiverse

http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/18-out-there-welcome-to-the-multiverse?fb_action_ids=10152146804300795&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.UvcDY83MTtE.like&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582#.UvcVIYWGiHd

 

Quantum Computing: A Primer

http://science.time.com/2014/02/07/quantum-computing-a-primer/

 

What the Singularity Will Mean at the Office

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2014/02/06/what-the-singularity-will-mean-at-the-office/

 

Alvin deep-sea sub cleared to start next half-century of service

http://www.gizmag.com/alvin-return/30617/

 

U.S. Experimented With Nuclear Fracking

http://orwellwasright.co.uk/2014/02/02/u-s-experimented-with-nuclear-fracking/

 

Terrific: Iranian warships approaching U.S. maritime borders

http://www.caintv.com/breaking-iranian-warships-appr

 

How To Keep Your Team And Make Your Startup Acquisition Succeed

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/08/kristian-segerstrale-how-to-keep-your-team-and-make-your-startup-acquisition-succeed/?utm_campaign=fb&ncid=fb

 

'Minority Report' technology is real and it's here (and it’s cool)

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140204/BLOGS11/140209960/minority-report-technology-is-real-and-its-here-and-it-s-cool#

 

Nanotechnology holds promise for security applications

http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/11293426/a-look-at-how-researchers-are-developing-nanotechnology-sensors-that-could-be-used-in-security-applications

 

7 Ways To Be More Productive At Work

http://www.investopedia.com/slide-show/7-ways-productive-work/

 

The Inevitable Collision Of Technology and Politics

http://www.digitaltonto.com/2014/the-inevitable-collision-of-technology-and-politics/

 

New Journal Article Sheds Light on Past Earth Warming Events

http://www.21stcentech.com/headlines-journal-article-sheds-light-earth-warming-events/

 

Why Steve Ballmer Left Microsoft Better Than He Found It

http://www.cio.com/article/747901/Why_Steve_Ballmer_Left_Microsoft_Better_Than_He_Found_It

 

11 Ways to Improve Your IT Team's Productivity

http://www.cio.com/article/747843/11_Ways_to_Improve_Your_IT_Team_s_Productivity

 

Experts Warn of Russian Spying, Hackers at Sochi Olympics

http://www.cio.com/article/747846/Experts_Warn_of_Russian_Spying_Hackers_at_Sochi_Olympics

 

How to Get the Job You Want in 2014's Hot IT Job Market

http://www.cio.com/slideshow/detail/139241/How-to-Get-the-Job-You-Want-in-2014-s-Hot-IT-Job-Market

 

‘Natural cities’ emerge from location-based social media

http://www.impactlab.net/2014/02/08/natural-cities-emerge-from-location-based-social-media/

 

MBAs by the Hour: Disrupting the Consulting Model

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/mbas-by-the-hour-disrupting-the-consulting-model-C2P52grNSVatnpqqYFIolQ.html

 

Gmail, Hangouts, and other Google services are back to normal after service outage (update)

http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342252/gmail-hangouts-and-other-google-services-are-down-right-now

 

6 Attention-Grabbing Direct Mail Designs

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/230746

 

Stanford Re:Think Roundup: Achieving Success in Business and Beyond

http://stanfordbusiness.tumblr.com/post/76140155106/stanford-re-think-roundup-achieving-success-in

 

A robot in every home: Dyson enters race to provide ‘advanced household androids’ for all

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/a-robot-in-every-home-dyson-enters-race-to-provide-advanced-household-androids-for-all-9117372.html

 

Hack a 3D Printer Into a Surprisingly Skilled Air Hockey Robot

http://gizmodo.com/hack-a-3d-printer-into-a-surprisingly-skilled-air-hocke-1518317429

 

LAPD IT Chief: “Israel Has Some Amazing Tech”

http://i-hls.com/2014/02/lapd-chief-israel-amazing-tech/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lapd-chief-israel-amazing-tech

 

Stanford scientists put free text-analysis tool on the web

http://engineering.stanford.edu/research-profile/stanford-scientists-put-free-text-analysis-tool-web

 

3 Ways to Test the Accuracy of Your Predictive Models

http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/02/3-ways-to-test-accuracy-your-predictive-models.html

 

Big Chinese Internet Companies Are Competing Head On Against Chinese Banks

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-banks-battle-internet-financial-cos-2014-2

 

Experiment Is Crowdfunding Science Projects, Just Don't Ask Them To Find Bigfoot

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hollieslade/2014/02/07/experiment-is-crowdfunding-science-projects-just-dont-ask-them-to-find-bigfoot/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

 

Energy firms' gas profit margins questioned by minister

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26112330

 

How Micro-Location, Geofencing and Indoor Location Are Driving The Retail Revolution

http://www.gislounge.com/opinion-piece-micro-location-geofencing-indoor-location-driving-retail-revolution/

 

Climate change: Weather of Olympian extremes

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/09/leader-climate-change-weather-olympian-extremes?CMP=twt_fd

 

FDA Panel to Weigh Painkillers' Cardiac Risk

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303874504579372854079768512?mod=rss_Health&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303874504579372854079768512.html%3Fmod%3Drss_Health

 

Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy. And It’s Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/silicon-valley-isnt-a-meritocracy-and-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-holds-people-back/

 

WIRED Space Photo of the Day

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/wired-space-photo-of-the-day-feb-2014?cid=co18314714#slide-id-534261:full

 

This Is The Best Free Online Course For Entrepreneurs

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-online-course-for-entrepreneurs-2014-2

 

The cost of capital is higher for entities that are not audited

http://www.kpmg.com/global/en/topics/value-of-audit/interview/pages/roderick-devlin.aspx?utm_medium=social%E2%80%90media&utm_campaign=2014-adt-value&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=gbl+2014+jan+7+value+rod+tw&sf1404795=1

 

New Business Models Need New Approaches to IT

http://cioofthefuture.com/new-business-models-need-new-approaches-to-it/

 

The 10 Weirdest Things Thieves Steal: 24/7 Wall St.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09/weird-steal_n_4756679.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

 

Why Is EnerNOC Funding a Solar Software Startup?

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/enernoc-invests-in-genability?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GreentechMedia+%28Greentech+Media%29

 

Yelp And Yahoo Are Reportedly Teaming Up

http://business.time.com/2014/02/09/yelp-and-yahoo-are-reportedly-teaming-up/

 

Does grass-fed beef have any heart-health benefits that other types of beef don't?

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-disease/expert-answers/grass-fed-beef/FAQ-20058059

 

Starwatch: Supernova in Ursa Major

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/09/starwatch-supernova-ursa-major?CMP=twt_fd

 

Warren Buffett Made A Bet In 2008 That Has The Potential To Make The Hedge Fund Industry Look Very Bad

http://www.businessinsider.com/warren-buffetts-hedge-fund-bet-2014-2

 

Victorian fires: emergency continues after at least 20 homes lost - live updates

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/10/victorian-fires-emergency-homes-lost-live-updates?CMP=twt_fd

 

Climate slowdown? Just wait until the wind changes

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25015-climate-slowdown-just-wait-until-the-wind-changes.html

 

NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon

http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/9/5395684/nasa-begins-hunt-for-private-companies-to-mine-the-moon-catalyst

 

Entering the Era of Private and Semi-Anonymous Apps

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/entering-the-era-of-private-and-semi-anonymous-apps/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

 

Three rules for success: Michael Raynor at TEDxUniversity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIzCjT7Znmc&list=UUsT0YIqwnpJCM-mx7-gSA4Q

 

QUOTATION(S):  “...It reminds us that, in our accelerating, headlong era,  the future presses so close upon us that those who ignore it inhabit not the present but the past ...”    AND  “...The future is not a privilege but a perpetual conquest...”

 

CITATION(S): “...The world has profoundly changed … The challenges and complexity we face in our personal lives and relationships, in our families, in our professional lives, and in our organizations are of a different order of magnitude. In fact, many mark 1989 ─ the year we witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall ─ as the beginning of the Information Age, the birth of a new reality, a sea change of incredible significance ─ truly a new era ─ Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer merely an option ─ survival in today’s world requires it. But in order to thrive, innovate, excel, and lead in what Covey calls the new Knowledge Worker Age, we must build on and move beyond effectiveness [long-held assumptions, fallacies and flawed beliefs and faulty conventions]…Accessing the higher levels of human genius and motivation in today’s new reality REQUIRES A SEA CHANGE IN THINKING: a new mind-set, a new skill-set, a new tool-set ─ in short, a whole new habit...”

 

BOOK(S): The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage by Yossi Sheffi. ISBN-13: 978-0262693493

 

Regards,

 

Mr. Andres Agostini

Risk-Management Futurist

and Success Consultant

http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

(¯`*• Global Source and/or more resources at http://goo.gl/zvSV7 │ www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com and on LinkeIn Group's "Becoming Aware of the Futures" at http://goo.gl/8qKBbK │ @SciCzar │ Point of Contact: www.linkedin.com/in/AndresAgostini