Monday, March 3, 2014
LIST OF UPDATES (MARCH 03 THROUGH MARCH 10/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Making nanoelectronics last longer for medical devices and ‘cyborgs’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/making-nanoelectronics-last-longer-for-medical-devices-cyborgs
Are you ready for the Internet of Cops?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-you-ready-for-the-internet-of-cops
Moore’s law and neural networks collude to address grand challenge
http://www.kurzweilai.net/moores-law-and-neural-networks-collude-to-address-grand-challenge
Emerging market risk and reward
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-341033-emerging-market-risk-and-reward.html
Crisis in Crimea: What Ukraine, Russia, the U.S. and the EU Should Do
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/crisis-crimea-ukraine-russia-u-s-eu/
10 Top Trends in Social Media
http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/24/10-top-trends-in-social-media/
Did Sherlock Holmes Believe in God?
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2014/03/03/did-sherlock-holmes-believe-in-god/
Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_wolpert_the_real_reason_for_brains.html?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=on.ted.com-twitter&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&awesm=on.ted.com_si9J&utm_source=t.co
Report Calls for Better Backstops to Protect Power Grid From Cyberattacks
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/03/business/energy-environment/report-calls-for-better-backstops-to-protect-power-grid-from-cyberattacks.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
East Ukraine aflame as Russia poised to strike
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/03/03/odessa-russia-ukraine/5969249/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=206567
Buffett: I'd love to see minimum wage at $15 an hour
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/economy/buffett-minimum-wage/index.html
Gates reclaims Forbes title of world's richest billionaire
http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/03/news/companies/forbes-billionaire-rich-list/index.html
Here's Why Scientists Are Shooting Rockets at an Aurora
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/rockets/heres-why-scientists-are-shooting-rockets-at-an-aurora-16441412?src=spr_TWITTER&spr_id=1457_46466698
How NASA Is Trying to Help California Survive Its Water Crisis
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/water/how-nasa-is-trying-to-help-california-survive-its-water-crisis-16544122?click=pm_latest
How to Annex Another Nation's Territory: The Crimean Invasion in 6 Steps
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/how-to-annex-another-nations-territory-russia-crimea-ukraine-16545791?click=pm_news
Richard Branson on Why Leading Means Listening
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/231826
Ukraine crisis: Grip tightens
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26413953
Web-Enabled Toothbrushes Join the Internet of Things
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304360704579415161522531046?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304360704579415161522531046.html
WhatsApp Founders Make Last-Minute Addition to Forbes' Billionaires List
http://mashable.com/2014/03/03/whatsapp-founders-forbes-billionaires-list/
Ukraine Crisis May Thwart Obama Plans From Iran to China
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-03/ukraine-crisis-may-thwart-obama-plans-from-iran-to-china.html
No, American Weakness Didn't Encourage Putin to Invade Ukrain
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/03/no-american-weakness-didnt-encourage-putin-to-invade-ukraine/284168/
Confirmed: Facebook's $19-billion WhatsApp deal is Jaw-Dropping
http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-confirmed-facebooks-19-billion-whatsapp-deal-is-jawdropping-20140302,0,5388152.story?track=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Ftechnology+%28L.A.+Times+-+Technology+News%29
Quantum physics could make secure, single-use computer memories possible
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-quantum-physics-single-use-memories.html
When Will Elon Musk Start Making Solar Panels?
http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2014/02/28/371766-when-will-elon-musk-start-making-solar-panels.htm
In Search of a Stable Electronic Currency
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/business/in-search-of-a-stable-electronic-currency.html
Ion Proton™ Sequencer designed to sequence human genome fo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aatk7CMZQtE&feature=youtu.be
Art vs. Engineering? Art + Engineering?
http://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/ArticleID/7243/Art-vs-Engineering-Art-Engineering.aspx
Is “Designed” in China the Next Big Thing?
http://www.engineering.com/DesignSoftware/DesignSoftwareArticles/ArticleID/7236/Is-Designed-in-China-the-Next-Big-Thing.aspx
Rolls Royce and the Autonomous High Seas
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7238/Rolls-Royce-and-the-Autonomous-High-Seas.aspx
Undergrads Aim to Lower Bio Printing Costs
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7227/Undergrads-Aim-to-Lower-Bio-Printing-Costs.aspx
Tiny, Cheap, Foolproof: Seeking New Component to Counter Counterfeit Electronics
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/24.aspx
DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx
Big Mechanism Seeks the “Whys” Hidden in Big Data
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/20.aspx
ARES Aims to Provide More Front-line Units with Mission-tailored VTOL Capabilities
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/11.aspx
Molten Salts Might Provide Half-Price Grid Energy Storage
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/525121/molten-salts-might-provide-half-price-grid-energy-storage/
Stem cells repair and strenthen muscles in aged mice
http://www.impactlab.net/2014/03/01/stem-cells-repair-and-strenthen-muscles-in-aged-mice/
Enhancing the human race: augmented reality
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/scientific-breakthroughs/10523379/augmented-reality-medicine.html
What if part of your innovation journey was to go back to the future?
http://smartinnovation.org/2014/03/02/what-if-part-of-your-innovation-journey-was-to-go-back-to-the-future/
It slices, it dices, and it protects the body from harm: 3-D structure of enzyme that helps defend against bacteria
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140228210604.htm
Robots in 2020 / Vision of Future - Humans Life Jointly Humanoid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlvzV9fUp9M
The End of Education As We Know It
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/radical-openness/the-end-of-education-as-we-know-it.html
The Case for Connectivity
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-ross/the-case-for-connectivity_b_4839486.html
SNOPA: A Privacy Win-Win for Social Media Age
http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/right-to-digital-privacy-will-be-protected-by-the-social#axzz2uv9naa6B
Pill could help humans live longer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10666532/Pill-could-help-humans-live-longer.html
Ten Things I Remember About the Future
http://markrvickers.com/2014/03/01/ten-things-i-remember-about-the-future/
Why Daydreamers Will Save the World
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140224153333-10842349-why-daydreamers-will-save-the-world
NASA’s CT-2 Preps for Larger Deep Space Launches
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7178/NASAs-CT-2-Preps-for-Larger-Deep-Space-Launches.aspx
Professors, We Need You!
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-professors-we-need-you.html?action=click&contentCollection=Business%20Day&module=MostEmailed&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article&gwh=EACA3FD399AB5459E19425C29C515F40&gwt=pay&_r=0
In the Future Little Robots will Outnumber the Big Ones
http://www.21stcentech.com/future-robots-outnumber-big/
Fact Checking the Nuclear Energy File
http://www.21stcentech.com/state-nuclear-energy-today/
Next SpaceX Visit to the ISS Will Test Booster Relanding Controls
http://www.21stcentech.com/headlines-spacex-visit-iss-test-booster-relanding-controls/
Are We Measuring Methane Accurately in Calculating GHG Emissions?
http://www.21stcentech.com/measuring-methane-calculating-ghg-emissions/
Dyson Invests in Robotic Vision Research
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7133/Dyson-Invests-in-Robotic-Vision-Research.aspx
NASA Research Aims to Print Wood in Space
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7132/NASA-Research-Aims-to-Print-Wood-in-Space.aspx
NASA Develops Star Trek-Inspired Gadgets That Can Heal Injured Astronauts and Eliminate Animal Testing
http://inhabitat.com/nasa-develops-star-trek-inspired-gadgets-heal-injured-astronauts-and-eliminate-animal-testing/
The ISS to Be Home to NASA’s Cold Atom Lab
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7096/The-ISS-to-Be-Home-to-NASAs-Cold-Atom-Lab.aspx
Climate Change and U.S. National Security: a Geoeconomic Approach
https://www.redanalysis.org/2014/03/03/climate-change-and-u-s-national-security-a-geoeconomic-approach/
The Future of Military Force
http://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2014/02/24/the_future_of_military_force_107102.html
Boundless Natural Gas, Boundless Opportunities: Interview with EIA Chief
http://blog.cleantechies.com/2014/02/24/boundless-natural-gas-boundless-opportunities-interview-with-eia-chief/#sthash.MkOf1qt2.dpuf
Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-gave-innovators-the-wrong-message-about-the-value-of-history/
No Longer Science Fiction: Start-Up Unveils Radical Consciousness Technology
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-weinkauf/no-longer-science-fiction_1_b_4688935.html
Machine Consciousness: Fact Or Fiction?
http://footnote1.com/machine-consciousness-fact-or-fiction/
3D bioprinting the human body - infographic
http://www.nanowerk.com/news2/gadget/newsid=34156.php
Extremism and terrorism are the other price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups
http://man-as-media.com/2014/01/08/extremism-and-terrorism-are-the-other-price-that-humankind-pays-for-successful-silicon-valley-startups/
The Internet of Things and CIA concern
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Homeland-Security-Today-4364804?trk=my_groups-b-grp-v
The Science Behind Procrastination
http://bigthink.com/big-think-tv/the-science-behind-procrastination
It’s Official: Microsoft Is Going Down
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140228214728-64875646-it-s-official-microsoft-is-going-down
The Internet Of Things Is Going To Bring A Plethora Of Challenges
http://www.informationsecuritybuzz.com/internet-things-going-bring-plethora-challenges/#.UxS_hIjAt-c.twitter
Eterni.me will create a computer version of you for when you die
http://www.gizmag.com/eterni-me-death-avatar/31053/?utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=twitterfeed
New 3D-image modelling technology enables anyone to have a 3D digital doppelgänger
http://www.mpg.de/7975368/bodylab-3D-modelling-technology
"Think before you speak"
http://www.mpg.de/7959561/temporal_coordination-thinking_speaking
New drug against Alzheimer's and Parkinson's on the way
http://www.mpg.de/7955496/anle138b_alzheimer_parkinson
Searching for Earth's twin
http://www.mpg.de/7957207/PLATO
Royal Society and US National Academy of Sciences release joint publication on climate change
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/climate-change-evidence-causes/
Mystery of marine mammal stranding solved
http://royalsociety.org/news/2014/whale-standings-atacama/
Science in court: Disease detectives
http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-court-disease-detectives-1.14775
Alternative lengthening of telomeres in cancer stem cells in vivo
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/onc2013603a.html
Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits
http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v10/n3/abs/nphys2900.html
The Right Reason for Entrepreneurship
http://blogs.nature.com/tradesecrets/2014/03/03/the-right-reason-for-entrepreneurship/
U.K. To Legalize Three-Parent IVF?
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39318/title/U-K--To-Legalize-Three-Parent-IVF-/
Bacteria’s Role in Bowel Cancer
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39314/title/Bacteria-s-Role-in-Bowel-Cancer/
Plants Without Plastid Genomes
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39313/title/Plants-Without-Plastid-Genomes/
Behavior Brief
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39307/title/Behavior-Brief/
Next Generation: Seeing Brain Tumors
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39302/title/Next-Generation--Seeing-Brain-Tumors/
Engineered Molecules for Smarter Medicines
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/engineered-molecules-for-smarter-medicines
The Challenge of Manufacturing Between Macro and Micro
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/the-challenge-of-manufacturing-between-macro-and-micro
Simulating Star Formation on a Galactic Scale
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/simulating-star-formation-on-a-galactic-scale
Twisted Math and Beautiful Geometry
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/2/twisted-math-and-beautiful-geometry
Electronic Floor Sensors Turn Whole Rooms Into Immersive Touchscreens
http://gizmodo.com/electronic-floor-sensors-turn-whole-rooms-into-immersiv-1531835835
Interactive Virtual Reality In 3-D, The Newest Learning Tool
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026765/interactive-virtual-reality-in-3-d-the-newest-learning-tool
Drone Cargo Ships Will Make the Real World Work Like the Internet
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/drone-cargo-ships-will-make-real-world-work-just-like-internet/
6 Industries That Will Profit From Global Warming
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/02/climateprofiteers/
Tooth Regeneration Now Possible with New Stem Cell Research
http://undergroundhealthreporter.com/tooth-regeneration-now-possible-with-new-stem-cell-research#ixzz2ueZ4S7gs
Key trends from the world's biggest mobile technology show
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/27/tech/mobile/mobile-world-congress-top-trends-smartphone/index.html
The Internet of Things Space is being enhanced by Cisco
http://marketeyewitness.com/internet-things-space-enhanced-cisco/
Smartphone-Piloted Drones Could Support US Troops on Front Lines
http://www.livescience.com/43545-darpa-cargo-drone.html
No Hands! Mind-Controlled Helicopter Flies On Brainwaves
http://www.livescience.com/43250-mind-controlled-quadcopter.html
Can Gadgets Really Tell The Future?
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026853/can-gadgets-really-tell-the-future
Can Quantum Communication Work For Underwater Vehicles and Sensors?
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/525166/can-quantum-communication-work-for-underwater-vehicles-and-sensors/
Why The New American Workforce Wants Better Consumption, Not Just More
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026869/why-the-new-american-workforce-wants-better-consumption-not-just-more
How Growing Buildings Underwater Could Fight Climate Change
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026694/how-growing-buildings-underwater-could-fight-climate-change
Images Of New York City in 2017 As An Unequal, Hellish Surveillance State
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026737/images-of-new-york-city-in-2017-as-an-unequal-hellish-surveillance-state
Multinationals See Reputations Eroding from Tax Planning
http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/Multinationals-Reputations-Eroding-Tax-Planning-69850-1.html
Willis Study: Tech Firms Point to Dependence on Outsourced Vendors as Cyber Threat
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/willis-study-tech-firms-point-to-dependence-on-outsourced-vendors-as-cyber-threat-2014-03-03?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Why Teens Are the Most Elusive and Valuable Customers in Tech
http://www.inc.com/issie-lapowsky/inside-massive-tech-land-grab-teenagers.html?cid=sf01001
A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE: POPULATION SIZE
http://elizagreenbooks.com/2014/03/02/a-dystopian-future-population-size/?utm_content=bufferc0730&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Technology: Rise of the replicants
on.ft.com/1gNlGWz
The CIO: More Than a Network Steward
http://simplifywork.blogs.xerox.com/2014/03/03/the-cio-more-than-a-network-steward/
QUOTATION(S): “...The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable...”
CITATION(S): “...If you plot the basic measures of the price to performance and capacity of information technologies (for example, computer instructions per second per constant dollar, bits of memory per dollar, or the total number of bits being moved around over the Internet), they follow remarkably smooth — and foreseeable — trajectories. This observation goes well beyond Moore’s Law (which says you can place twice as many transistors on an integrated circuit every two years); in the case of computation, it goes back to the 1890 American census, long before Gordon Moore was even born .... What’s predictable is that these measures grow exponentially, not linearly, though our intuition about the future is linear, which is hard-wired in our brains. This makes a remarkable difference. Thirty steps linearly gets you to 30, whereas 30 steps exponentially (2, 4, 8, 16. . .) gets you to a billion .... And it’s not just electronics and communications that follow this exponential course. It applies as well to health, medicine and its related field of biology. The Human Genome Project, for instance, saw the amount of genetic sequencing double and the cost of sequencing per base pair come down by half each year .... A computer that fit inside a building when I was a student now fits in my pocket, and is a thousand times more powerful despite being a million times less expensive .... In another quarter century, that capability will fit inside a red blood cell and will again be a billion times more powerful per dollar...”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (25) Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else forever.
BOOK(S): The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell. ISBN-13: 978-0316346627.
N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.
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
Posted by http://goo.gl/JujXk
Dr. Andres Agostini → AMAZON.com/author/agostini → LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini → AGO26.blogspot.com → appearoo.com/AAGOSTINI
at
3/03/2014 02:10:00 PM
Monday, February 24, 2014
LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 24 THROUGH MARCH 02/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Brain signals from a primate directly move paralyzed limbs in another primate ‘avatar’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/brain-signals-from-a-primate-directly-move-paralyzed-limbs-in-another-primate-avatar
Rice’s carbon nanotube fibers outperform copper
http://www.kurzweilai.net/rices-carbon-nanotube-fibers-outperform-copper
Single-chip device to provide real-time ultrasonic 3D images from inside the heart and blood vessels
http://www.kurzweilai.net/single-chip-device-to-provide-real-time-ultrasonic-3d-images-from-inside-the-heart-and-blood-vessels
Researchers create powerful muscles from fishing line, sewing thread
http://www.kurzweilai.net/researchers-create-powerful-muscles-from-fishing-line-sewing-thread
The Future of World and Technology in 2030
http://vivatechnics.com/global/the-future-of-world-and-technology-in-2030/
Grandma's Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes#.UwueOYVUOHd
Q&A with Martin Whist: Designing RoboCop's Reboot
http://discovermagazine.com/2014/march/18-the-man-behind-robocops-reboot
Scientists Bring Extinct Mouth-Brooding Frog Back to Life After 30 Years
http://inhabitat.com/scientists-bring-extinct-mouth-brooding-frog-back-to-life-after-30-years/
Computer robots will outsmart humans within 15 years, Google director claims (and a giant laboratory for artificial intelligence is already planned)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2565948/Computer-robots-outsmart-humans-15-years-Google-director-claims-giant-laboratory-artificial-intelligence-planned.html
Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-22/microsoft-said-to-cut-windows-price-70-to-counter-rivals.html
Are the robots about to rise? Google's new director of engineering thinks so…
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/22/robots-google-ray-kurzweil-terminator-singularity-artificial-intelligence
5 Reasons Why Big Data Will Crush Big Research
http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2013/12/03/5-reasons-why-big-data-will-crush-big-research/
Scientists ‘freeze’ light for an entire minute
http://themindunleashed.org/2014/02/scientists-freeze-light-entire-minute.html?utm_content=buffer60f8d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/22/facebook-princeton-researchers-infectious-disease
Stanford's New Pomegranate Super Batteries Could Store 10 Times More Juice
http://inhabitat.com/stanfords-new-pomegranate-super-batteries-could-store-10-times-more-juice/
Web Analytics Trends for 2014
http://www.atomrain.com/it/it/web-analytics-trends-2014
Bitcoin is not just digital currency. It's Napster for finance.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/01/21/bitcoin-platform/
Did A Russian Scientist Really ‘Cure Aging’ or Is It Just a Fluke?
http://singularityhub.com/2010/09/21/did-a-russian-scientist-really-cure-aging-or-is-it-just-a-fluke-video/
Map of the World key to full immersion in geospatial data
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/02/18/map-of-the-world-key-to-full-immersion-in-geospatial-data.aspx
When Will My Car Fix Istelf Using Wireless Uploads?
http://www.21stcentech.com/fix-car-uploads/
The lie detector for your TWEETS: Scientists develop system that can tell fact from fiction in 140 characters or less
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2562919/A-lie-detector-TWEETS-Scientists-develop-tell-fact-fiction-140-characters-less.html
Don’t read War & Peace with your Google Glass…yet
http://www.publishingtechnology.com/2014/02/dont-read-war-peace-with-your-google-glassyet/
Henry Ford Gave Innovators The Wrong Message About The Value Of History
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/21/henry-ford-gave-innovators-the-wrong-message-about-the-value-of-history/
The Office Of The 21st Century Will Be Your Self-Driving Car
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3026652/the-office-of-the-21st-century-will-be-your-self-driving-car
An Amazing Village Designed Just For People With Dementia
http://gizmodo.com/inside-an-amazing-village-designed-just-for-people-with-1526062373
Scientists Turn Off Pain Using Nothing But Light
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-turn-off-pain-using-nothing-but-light-1526906564
UA Researchers Use 3D Printing to Help Fight Cancer
http://3dprint.com/1000/ua-researchers-use-3d-printing-to-help-fight-cancer/
Concrete and Climate Change – the Greening of Infrastructure
http://www.21stcentech.com/concrete-climate-change-greening-infrastructure/
Stephen Hawking: Humanity Must Colonize Space to Survive
http://www.space.com/20657-stephen-hawking-humanity-survival-space.html
Stephen Hawking: "Why We Should Go Into Space"
http://www.nss.org/resources/library/spacepolicy/hawking.htm
Incredible Technology: How Future Space Missions May Hunt for Alien Planets
http://news.yahoo.com/incredible-technology-future-space-missions-may-hunt-alien-114833845.html
Exoplanets: New missions hunting for alien worlds
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130829-the-new-hunt-for-alien-worlds
Five alien worlds with water detected by Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.sott.net/article/269546-Five-alien-worlds-with-water-detected-by-Hubble-Space-Telescope
Drake equation: How many alien civilizations exist?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120821-how-many-alien-worlds-exist
DARPA Seeking Automated Decision Aids for Pilots and Battle Managers in Contested Environments
http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2014/02/21.aspx
Radiation-free cancer scans may be on the horizon
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57619153-76/radiation-free-cancer-scans-may-be-on-the-horizon/
QUOTATION(S): “...To every man there comes in his lifetime that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour...”
AND
“...Change is not merely necessary to life ─ it is life...”
AND
“...The mind is a terrible thing to waste...”
CITATION(S): “...If you like where events seem to be headed, you may want to take timely action to preserve their positive trajectory. If you do not like where they appear to be going, you will have to develop and implement policies to change their trajectory...”
AND
“...Because time is real, and the future unpredictable, the challenge of carving a path into the future calls for a different way of thinking than the old, mechanical methods of strategic planning. In order to anticipate wholly new industries like the personal computer industry, it’s not enough to make predictions based on old assumptions. You need to imagine alternative scenarios based on new assumptions. You need to imagine alternative scenarios based on new assumptions. Those new assumptions need more than new numbers...”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (24) Don’t copy Nature and Biology, don’t even copy Universe. Just copy the Omniverse.
BOOK(S): The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility... by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (ISBN-13: 978-0812973815).
N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.
(¯`*• 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
Posted by http://goo.gl/JujXk
Dr. Andres Agostini → AMAZON.com/author/agostini → LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini → AGO26.blogspot.com → appearoo.com/AAGOSTINI
at
2/24/2014 03:40:00 PM
Thursday, February 20, 2014
LIST OF UPDATES (FEBRUARY 22 THROUGH 23/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
A light switch for pain
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-light-switch-for-pain
World’s most powerful terahertz laser chip
http://www.kurzweilai.net/worlds-most-powerful-terahertz-laser-chip
Are bots taking over Wikipedia?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-bots-taking-over-wikipedia
Gigabit Internet may be coming to 35 US cities
http://www.kurzweilai.net/gigabit-internet-may-be-coming-to-35-us-cities
Stretchable, bendable optical interconnections for body sensors and robotic skin
http://www.kurzweilai.net/stretchable-bendable-optical-interconnections-for-body-sensors-and-robotic-skin
New type of MRI ‘whole body’ scan could improve treatment of bone-marrow cancer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-type-of-mri-whole-body-scan-could-improve-treatment-of-bone-marrow-cancer
Intelligent alien life could be found by 2040, says SETI astronomer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/intelligent-alien-life-could-be-found-by-2040-says-seti-astronomer
Zeroing in on how Alzheimer’s-disease toxins are created
http://www.kurzweilai.net/zeroing-in-on-how-alzheimers-disease-toxins-are-created
A drug that can help wipe out reservoirs of cancer cells in bone marrow
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-drug-that-can-help-wipe-out-reservoirs-of-cancer-cells-in-bone-marrow
Apple patents health-and-fitness monitoring headphones
http://www.kurzweilai.net/apple-patents-health-and-fitness-monitoring-headphones
Chips that listen to bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/chips-that-listen-to-bacteria
Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children
http://www.kurzweilai.net/growing-number-of-chemicals-linked-with-brain-disorders-in-children
New multilayer graphene structure allows ‘ultraprecise,’ ‘ultrafast’ water filtering
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-multilayer-graphene-structure-allows-ultraprecise-ultrafast-water-filtering
Developing World Surpasses the Developed in Growing GMO Crops
http://www.21stcentech.com/developing-world-surpasses-developed-growing-gmo-crops/
New Battery Technologies May Make EVs Ubiquitous
http://www.21stcentech.com/battery-technologies-evs-ubiquitous/
A Handheld Device That Can Diagnose Diseases And Drug Resistance In 15 Minutes
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026100/fund-this/a-handheld-device-that-can-diagnose-diseases-and-drug-resistance-in-15-minutes
A World Without Car Crashes
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/02/world-without-car-crashes/8353/?sf22919200=1
The cars we’ll be driving in the world of 2050
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131108-what-will-we-be-driving-in-2050
The city of 2050
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23524249
11 Predictions for the World in 2030 That May Sound Outrageous Today but not in the Future.
http://www.ilookforwardto.com/2010/11/10-predictions-for-2030-that-may-sound-outrageous-today-but-will-not-in-the-future1-by-2030-learning-a-language-will-no-lo.html
U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/u-s-intelligence-agencies-see-a-different-world-in-2030.html
China Factory Data Show Slowdown Risk as Xi Limits Credit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/chinese-manufacturing-index-slides-to-lowest-level-in-7-months.html
Can Homemade Goods Become The Global Brands Of Tomorrow?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/19/can-homemade-goods-become-the-global-brands-of-tomorrow/
America’s Fusion Race With China Is Heating Up, So Why Is Washington Going Cold?
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/02/americas-fusion-race-china-heating-so-why-washington-going-cold/78848/
Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/wearable-computers/
This Ring Scans Text And Reads It Aloud For Visually Impaired People
http://gizmodo.com/this-ring-scans-text-and-reads-it-aloud-for-visually-im-1525373479?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Smart Shoes Could Help Runners Hit Their Stride
http://www.livescience.com/41844-smart-running-shoes-improve-runners-gait.html
‘We need the iPhone of guns’: Will smart guns transform the gun industry?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-guns-will-smart-guns-transform-the-gun-industry/2014/02/17/6ebe76da-8f58-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
How The Knowledge Economy Is Redefining Work
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026566/leadership-now/how-the-knowledge-economy-is-redefining-work
Bitcoin Exchange Prices Plummet as Investors Brace for Bankruptcy
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/mtgox-2/
Google prepares 34-city push for ultra-fast Fiber service
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-google-fiber-idUSBREA1I1ZT20140219
Some predict computers will produce a jobless future. Here’s why they’re wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/18/some-predict-computers-will-produce-a-jobless-future-heres-why-theyre-wrong/
Quantum Microscope May Be Able to See Inside Living Cells
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2014/02/Layout.jpeg
Looking ahead: what will the world be like in 2064?
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/world-issues/2014/01/06/397615/Looking-ahead.htm
QUOTATION(S): “...Now, for the first time, we are observing the brain at work in a global manner with such clarity that we should be able to discover the overall programs behind its magnificent powers...”
AND
“...When Queen Victoria was in her prime, an Englishman, Charles Darwin, discovered a fundamental truth that shook mankind so severely that it remains today a matter of extreme distress and massive denial. Darwin realized that life on our planet is not the recent and fixed product of deity-mediated special creation, but has been constantly changing over a long span of time … The paleontologist who followed Darwin have taught us that time has no respect for species. Whole dynasties of life have been swept away and replaced with new ones. More than 65 million years ago, the world was filled with swift, deadly meat-eaters, including huge tyrannosaurs stalking elephant-sized horned dinosaurs and duck-billed herbivores. Flying pterosaurs were as big and heavy as sailplanes. Small, graceful, predaceous dinosaurs had binocular vision, big brains, and grasping hands. After 170 million years of successful evolution, they achieved the height of variation and power. Resplendent and numerous on the fertile Cretaceous plains, how could it be that within a few years they all would be gone forever? This chilling story suggests a ticking clock for humanity, as well; dare we think of our own extinction? There is ticking clock for humanity, and it may be mere seconds before midnight. TOMORROW IS UPON US, AND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE NEW DAY IS FAR, FAR STRANGER THAN MOST PEOPLE DARE TO THINK … Even Darwin did not realize how right he was, or how far evolution will take us. We should not fault Darwin for his lack of vision. Darwin lived in a time when the modern scientific revolution was just beginning. It was also a time of steam engines, gas lamps, and phrenology. Science, in our late 20th century sense, was still a few years away. Yet even today, few nonscientists have more than an inkling of how life evolved or how technologies such as the automobile, the light switch, or the airplane actually work … WE LIVE IN A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY WORLD, WITH LITTLE APPRECIATION FOR HOW THINGS GOT THE WAY THEY ARE...”
AND
“...Man, incurable futurist, is the only traditionalist animal...”
AND
“...A person’s world equates to the size his (her) own vocabulary...”
CITATION(S): “...Wealth is concentrated and portable. MIT faculty and alumni produce as much wealth as all but Twenty-Two Countries In The World...”
AND
“... [The human being] experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...”
AND
“...Yet the opportunities and challenges do not pause. The forces of change are in fact accelerating as technology, communications, and mobility link us in a blurring and buzzing globalizing world.... The image of this future became clearer when we and 40 executives and thought leaders closely examined five specific technology areas and explored their implications for society, business, and government. We examined biotechnology, cyber-technology, nanotechnology, ubiquitous sensing, and wild cards from science and technology. We asked the thought leaders to apply their projections in five crosscutting areas to identify the key technology convergences that would most affect or disrupt society in 2025: economy and wealth, energy and the environment, health and demographics, infrastructure, and governance .... We learned that the technologies were changing in ways that made traditional distinctions between disciplines and areas of science decreasingly relevant. Biotechnologists regularly describe nano-scale developments. Nanotechnologists apply insights from genome sequencing. Research is spread, enhanced, and stolen with cyber tools. Research will lead to carbon-free or carbon-neutral technologies that disrupt industries and policies. The blurring of boundaries between sciences are creating convergences. Breakthroughs across disciplines are stimulating accelerating insights and applications...”
AND
“...Knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know will soon be obsolete .... The technological developments maturing between now and 2025 and the innovative ways they may be applied reflect an acceleration and shift that can seem both promising and challenging to decision makers. In the Industrial Age, developments in steam power, combustion engines, automobiles, aerospace, and telephony seemed slow to mature – their development and spread required large industrial infrastructures. In the Information Age, developments in bio, nano, cyber, and sensors are possible with a smaller and more differentiated infrastructure, and they are occurring simultaneously around the globe. Global information networks are increasing the pace of this technological innovation. This deeper, more widely spread development of knowledge is different from our recent past and portends further changes .... The convergences of bio, nano, cyber, sensors and wild card technologies are causing even greater acceleration of change. But at the same time, knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know about these technologies and their application rapidly becomes obsolete as it is overtaken by newer discoveries. Our institutions will be challenged to respond to the combination of these technological changes and the many other drivers of change simultaneously. We expect many systems and institutions to be desynchronized by these changes and efforts to resynchronize them will add to the sense of disruption that many people feel .... Many thought leaders we worked with in this effort are highly optimistic. Nearly all who contributed to these findings see technological developments as promising, and as stimuli for new opportunities. At the same time, some cautioned about vulnerabilities and called for leadership and action to address these vulnerabilities before we feel their impact. This report serves as one input to decision makers who can aid us in adapting with the changes and creating our future...”
AND
“... In the mid-1980s a study by Shell suggested that the average corporate survival rate for large company was about half as long as that of a human being. Since then the pressures on firms have increased enormously from all directions ─ with the inevitable result that business life expectancy is reduced still further. Many studies look at the changing composition of key indices and draw attention to the demise of what were often major firms and in their time key innovators. For example, Foster and Kaplan point out that of the 500 companies originally making up the Standard & Poor 500 list in 1957, only 74 remained on the list through to 1977. Of the top 12 companies which make up the Dow Jones Index in 1900 only one ─ General Electric ─ survives today. Even apparently robust giants like IBM, GM or Kodak can suddenly display worrying sings of mortality, whilst for small firms the picture is often considerably worse since they lack the protection of a large resource base ... Some firms have had to change dramatically to stay in business. For example, a company founded in the early nineteenth century, which had Wellington boots and toilet paper amongst its product range, is now one of the largest and most successful in the world of telecommunications business. Nokia began life as a lumber company, making the equipment and supplies needed to cut down forests in Finland. It moved through into paper and from there into the ‘paperless office’ world of IT ─ and from there into mobile telephones ... Another mobile phone player ─ Vodafone Airtouch ─ grew to its huge size by merging with a firm called Mannesmann which, since its birth in 1870s, has been more commonly associated with the invention and production of steel tubes! TUI owns Thomsom (the travel group) in the UK, and is the largest European travel and tourism services company. Its origins, however, lie in the mines of old Prussia where it was established as a public sector state lead mining and smelting company!...”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (21) Step outside the boundaries of the framework’s system when seeking a problem’s solution. (22) Within zillion tiny bets, raise the ante and capture the documented learning through frenzy execution. (23) “...Moonshine...” and “...Skunks-work...” and “...Re-Imagineer...” it all, holding in your mind the motion-picture image that, regardless of the relevance of “...inputs...” and “...outputs,...”, entails that the highest relevance is within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT.
BOOK(S): What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation... by Gary Hamel. ISBN-13: 978-1118120828.
N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.
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
A light switch for pain
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-light-switch-for-pain
World’s most powerful terahertz laser chip
http://www.kurzweilai.net/worlds-most-powerful-terahertz-laser-chip
Are bots taking over Wikipedia?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/are-bots-taking-over-wikipedia
Gigabit Internet may be coming to 35 US cities
http://www.kurzweilai.net/gigabit-internet-may-be-coming-to-35-us-cities
Stretchable, bendable optical interconnections for body sensors and robotic skin
http://www.kurzweilai.net/stretchable-bendable-optical-interconnections-for-body-sensors-and-robotic-skin
New type of MRI ‘whole body’ scan could improve treatment of bone-marrow cancer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-type-of-mri-whole-body-scan-could-improve-treatment-of-bone-marrow-cancer
Intelligent alien life could be found by 2040, says SETI astronomer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/intelligent-alien-life-could-be-found-by-2040-says-seti-astronomer
Zeroing in on how Alzheimer’s-disease toxins are created
http://www.kurzweilai.net/zeroing-in-on-how-alzheimers-disease-toxins-are-created
A drug that can help wipe out reservoirs of cancer cells in bone marrow
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-drug-that-can-help-wipe-out-reservoirs-of-cancer-cells-in-bone-marrow
Apple patents health-and-fitness monitoring headphones
http://www.kurzweilai.net/apple-patents-health-and-fitness-monitoring-headphones
Chips that listen to bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/chips-that-listen-to-bacteria
Growing number of chemicals linked with brain disorders in children
http://www.kurzweilai.net/growing-number-of-chemicals-linked-with-brain-disorders-in-children
New multilayer graphene structure allows ‘ultraprecise,’ ‘ultrafast’ water filtering
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-multilayer-graphene-structure-allows-ultraprecise-ultrafast-water-filtering
Developing World Surpasses the Developed in Growing GMO Crops
http://www.21stcentech.com/developing-world-surpasses-developed-growing-gmo-crops/
New Battery Technologies May Make EVs Ubiquitous
http://www.21stcentech.com/battery-technologies-evs-ubiquitous/
A Handheld Device That Can Diagnose Diseases And Drug Resistance In 15 Minutes
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026100/fund-this/a-handheld-device-that-can-diagnose-diseases-and-drug-resistance-in-15-minutes
A World Without Car Crashes
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2014/02/world-without-car-crashes/8353/?sf22919200=1
The cars we’ll be driving in the world of 2050
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131108-what-will-we-be-driving-in-2050
The city of 2050
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23524249
11 Predictions for the World in 2030 That May Sound Outrageous Today but not in the Future.
http://www.ilookforwardto.com/2010/11/10-predictions-for-2030-that-may-sound-outrageous-today-but-will-not-in-the-future1-by-2030-learning-a-language-will-no-lo.html
U.S. Intelligence Agencies See a Different World in 2030
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-10/u-s-intelligence-agencies-see-a-different-world-in-2030.html
China Factory Data Show Slowdown Risk as Xi Limits Credit
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-19/chinese-manufacturing-index-slides-to-lowest-level-in-7-months.html
Can Homemade Goods Become The Global Brands Of Tomorrow?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/19/can-homemade-goods-become-the-global-brands-of-tomorrow/
America’s Fusion Race With China Is Heating Up, So Why Is Washington Going Cold?
http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/02/americas-fusion-race-china-heating-so-why-washington-going-cold/78848/
Why Wearable Tech Will Be as Big as the Smartphone
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/12/wearable-computers/
This Ring Scans Text And Reads It Aloud For Visually Impaired People
http://gizmodo.com/this-ring-scans-text-and-reads-it-aloud-for-visually-im-1525373479?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
Smart Shoes Could Help Runners Hit Their Stride
http://www.livescience.com/41844-smart-running-shoes-improve-runners-gait.html
‘We need the iPhone of guns’: Will smart guns transform the gun industry?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/we-need-the-iphone-of-guns-will-smart-guns-transform-the-gun-industry/2014/02/17/6ebe76da-8f58-11e3-b227-12a45d109e03_story.html
How The Knowledge Economy Is Redefining Work
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026566/leadership-now/how-the-knowledge-economy-is-redefining-work
Bitcoin Exchange Prices Plummet as Investors Brace for Bankruptcy
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/mtgox-2/
Google prepares 34-city push for ultra-fast Fiber service
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/19/us-google-fiber-idUSBREA1I1ZT20140219
Some predict computers will produce a jobless future. Here’s why they’re wrong.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/18/some-predict-computers-will-produce-a-jobless-future-heres-why-theyre-wrong/
Quantum Microscope May Be Able to See Inside Living Cells
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/wiredscience/2014/02/Layout.jpeg
Looking ahead: what will the world be like in 2064?
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/world-issues/2014/01/06/397615/Looking-ahead.htm
QUOTATION(S): “...Now, for the first time, we are observing the brain at work in a global manner with such clarity that we should be able to discover the overall programs behind its magnificent powers...”
AND
“...When Queen Victoria was in her prime, an Englishman, Charles Darwin, discovered a fundamental truth that shook mankind so severely that it remains today a matter of extreme distress and massive denial. Darwin realized that life on our planet is not the recent and fixed product of deity-mediated special creation, but has been constantly changing over a long span of time … The paleontologist who followed Darwin have taught us that time has no respect for species. Whole dynasties of life have been swept away and replaced with new ones. More than 65 million years ago, the world was filled with swift, deadly meat-eaters, including huge tyrannosaurs stalking elephant-sized horned dinosaurs and duck-billed herbivores. Flying pterosaurs were as big and heavy as sailplanes. Small, graceful, predaceous dinosaurs had binocular vision, big brains, and grasping hands. After 170 million years of successful evolution, they achieved the height of variation and power. Resplendent and numerous on the fertile Cretaceous plains, how could it be that within a few years they all would be gone forever? This chilling story suggests a ticking clock for humanity, as well; dare we think of our own extinction? There is ticking clock for humanity, and it may be mere seconds before midnight. TOMORROW IS UPON US, AND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE NEW DAY IS FAR, FAR STRANGER THAN MOST PEOPLE DARE TO THINK … Even Darwin did not realize how right he was, or how far evolution will take us. We should not fault Darwin for his lack of vision. Darwin lived in a time when the modern scientific revolution was just beginning. It was also a time of steam engines, gas lamps, and phrenology. Science, in our late 20th century sense, was still a few years away. Yet even today, few nonscientists have more than an inkling of how life evolved or how technologies such as the automobile, the light switch, or the airplane actually work … WE LIVE IN A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY WORLD, WITH LITTLE APPRECIATION FOR HOW THINGS GOT THE WAY THEY ARE...”
AND
“...Man, incurable futurist, is the only traditionalist animal...”
AND
“...A person’s world equates to the size his (her) own vocabulary...”
CITATION(S): “...Wealth is concentrated and portable. MIT faculty and alumni produce as much wealth as all but Twenty-Two Countries In The World...”
AND
“... [The human being] experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty...”
AND
“...Yet the opportunities and challenges do not pause. The forces of change are in fact accelerating as technology, communications, and mobility link us in a blurring and buzzing globalizing world.... The image of this future became clearer when we and 40 executives and thought leaders closely examined five specific technology areas and explored their implications for society, business, and government. We examined biotechnology, cyber-technology, nanotechnology, ubiquitous sensing, and wild cards from science and technology. We asked the thought leaders to apply their projections in five crosscutting areas to identify the key technology convergences that would most affect or disrupt society in 2025: economy and wealth, energy and the environment, health and demographics, infrastructure, and governance .... We learned that the technologies were changing in ways that made traditional distinctions between disciplines and areas of science decreasingly relevant. Biotechnologists regularly describe nano-scale developments. Nanotechnologists apply insights from genome sequencing. Research is spread, enhanced, and stolen with cyber tools. Research will lead to carbon-free or carbon-neutral technologies that disrupt industries and policies. The blurring of boundaries between sciences are creating convergences. Breakthroughs across disciplines are stimulating accelerating insights and applications...”
AND
“...Knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know will soon be obsolete .... The technological developments maturing between now and 2025 and the innovative ways they may be applied reflect an acceleration and shift that can seem both promising and challenging to decision makers. In the Industrial Age, developments in steam power, combustion engines, automobiles, aerospace, and telephony seemed slow to mature – their development and spread required large industrial infrastructures. In the Information Age, developments in bio, nano, cyber, and sensors are possible with a smaller and more differentiated infrastructure, and they are occurring simultaneously around the globe. Global information networks are increasing the pace of this technological innovation. This deeper, more widely spread development of knowledge is different from our recent past and portends further changes .... The convergences of bio, nano, cyber, sensors and wild card technologies are causing even greater acceleration of change. But at the same time, knowledge is being created at such a rate that much of what we know about these technologies and their application rapidly becomes obsolete as it is overtaken by newer discoveries. Our institutions will be challenged to respond to the combination of these technological changes and the many other drivers of change simultaneously. We expect many systems and institutions to be desynchronized by these changes and efforts to resynchronize them will add to the sense of disruption that many people feel .... Many thought leaders we worked with in this effort are highly optimistic. Nearly all who contributed to these findings see technological developments as promising, and as stimuli for new opportunities. At the same time, some cautioned about vulnerabilities and called for leadership and action to address these vulnerabilities before we feel their impact. This report serves as one input to decision makers who can aid us in adapting with the changes and creating our future...”
AND
“... In the mid-1980s a study by Shell suggested that the average corporate survival rate for large company was about half as long as that of a human being. Since then the pressures on firms have increased enormously from all directions ─ with the inevitable result that business life expectancy is reduced still further. Many studies look at the changing composition of key indices and draw attention to the demise of what were often major firms and in their time key innovators. For example, Foster and Kaplan point out that of the 500 companies originally making up the Standard & Poor 500 list in 1957, only 74 remained on the list through to 1977. Of the top 12 companies which make up the Dow Jones Index in 1900 only one ─ General Electric ─ survives today. Even apparently robust giants like IBM, GM or Kodak can suddenly display worrying sings of mortality, whilst for small firms the picture is often considerably worse since they lack the protection of a large resource base ... Some firms have had to change dramatically to stay in business. For example, a company founded in the early nineteenth century, which had Wellington boots and toilet paper amongst its product range, is now one of the largest and most successful in the world of telecommunications business. Nokia began life as a lumber company, making the equipment and supplies needed to cut down forests in Finland. It moved through into paper and from there into the ‘paperless office’ world of IT ─ and from there into mobile telephones ... Another mobile phone player ─ Vodafone Airtouch ─ grew to its huge size by merging with a firm called Mannesmann which, since its birth in 1870s, has been more commonly associated with the invention and production of steel tubes! TUI owns Thomsom (the travel group) in the UK, and is the largest European travel and tourism services company. Its origins, however, lie in the mines of old Prussia where it was established as a public sector state lead mining and smelting company!...”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (21) Step outside the boundaries of the framework’s system when seeking a problem’s solution. (22) Within zillion tiny bets, raise the ante and capture the documented learning through frenzy execution. (23) “...Moonshine...” and “...Skunks-work...” and “...Re-Imagineer...” it all, holding in your mind the motion-picture image that, regardless of the relevance of “...inputs...” and “...outputs,...”, entails that the highest relevance is within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT.
BOOK(S): What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation... by Gary Hamel. ISBN-13: 978-1118120828.
N.B.: Quotations, Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.
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
Posted by http://goo.gl/JujXk
Dr. Andres Agostini → AMAZON.com/author/agostini → LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini → AGO26.blogspot.com → appearoo.com/AAGOSTINI
at
2/20/2014 06:43:00 PM
Monday, February 17, 2014
Version:1.0
StartHTML:0000000168
EndHTML:0000018848
StartFragment:0000000469
EndFragment:0000018831
(¯`*• 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
LIST OF UPDATES
(FEBRUARY 17 THROUGH 21/2014). By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future
of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
Wearable glasses
help surgeons view cancer cells in real time
http://www.kurzweilai.net/wearable-glasses-help-surgeons-view-cancer-cells-in-real-time
Miniaturized
hearing aids that will fit into the ear canal
http://www.kurzweilai.net/miniaturized-hearing-aids-that-will-fit-into-the-ear-canal
DHS, Purdue
Develop Social Media Analysis Tool to Monitor Crime
http://www.executivegov.com/2014/02/dhs-purdue-develop-social-media-analysis-tool-to-monitor-crime/#sthash.gJM1msiI.dpuf
The Global Search
for Education: What Israel Did
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_4797810.html
Virgin America
Wants To Turn Boring Plane Flights Into Awesome Networking Sessions
http://www.businessinsider.com/category/virgin-america
The World’s Most
Powerful 3-D Laser Imager
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-powerful-3-d-laser-imager/
Scientists Create
Virtual Brain to Study Neurological Disorders
http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/02/16/scientists-create-a-virtual-brain-to-study-neurological-disorders/65956.html
Scientists to
create frozen zoos on other planets?
http://innovation.uk.msn.com/planet/scientists-to-create-frozen-zoos-on-other-planets
Welcome to the
Future of Transportation
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/welcome-future-transportation
The Power of
Unintentional Collaboration
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-power-of-unintentional-collaboration/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sm-direct
'Hand of God'
Spotted by NASA Space Telescope (Photo)
http://www.space.com/24225-hand-of-god-photo-nasa-telescope.html?cmpid=514630_20140217_18570724
Education is the
key to smart security preparation
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/education-is-the-key-to-smart-security-preparation-1221637
NASA Finds Clues
That There's Flowing Water On Mars
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/10/nasa-finds-clues-that-theres-flowing-water-on-mars/
The World’s Most
Powerful 3-D Laser Imager
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524166/the-worlds-most-powerful-3-d-laser-imager/
Explore 10 trends
that offer CIOs the opportunity to shape tomorrow and to transform
“business as usual.”
http://dupress.com/articles/2014-tech-trends-introduction/?id=gx:2sm:3li:dup563:cons:tt14:awa:021414?id=gx:2sm:3li:dup563:cons:tt14:awa:021414
Cameras That Can
See Through Walls!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLtzilM0epg
Aquaponics: The
Answer to California's Drought?
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/aquaponics-the-answer-to-california-s-drought-hv6OppkgRdm2pEvmG3U_Dw.html
Why the Tiny Home
Movement May Not be So Tiny
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/02/why-the-tiny-home-movement-may-not-be-so-tiny/
A termite-inspired
robot construction team
http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-termite-inspired-robot-construction-team
Helping robots
collaborate
http://www.kurzweilai.net/herding-robots
Robots with insect
brains
http://www.kurzweilai.net/robots-with-insect-brains
Four new galaxy
clusters discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth
http://www.kurzweilai.net/four-new-galaxy-clusters-discovered-some-10-billion-light-years-from-earth
What makes us
human? Unique brain area linked to higher cognitive powers
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205212015.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Ftop_news%2Ftop_science+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Top+Science+News%29
5 (Relatively
Simple) Steps To B2B Social Media Marketing Success
http://www.fastcompany.com/3026450/dialed/5-relativity-simple-steps-to-b2b-social-media-marketing-success?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29
Q&A: What
studying networks can tell us about the world and ourselves
http://news.yale.edu/2014/02/11/qa-what-studying-networks-can-tell-us-about-world-and-ourselves
Iran proposes
joint naval exercise with Russia. Show of strength as interim nuclear
deal takes effect
http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2014/02/14/iran-proposes-joint-naval-exercise-with-russia-meant-to-check-u-s-warships-in-region/#sthash.N154fUpi.dpuf
Chronic Pain
Common in Teens with Mental Health Problems
http://americannewsreport.com/nationalpainreport/chronic-pain-common-teens-mental-health-problems-8823025.html
Is truth stranger
than fiction? Yes, especially for science fiction
http://phys.org/news/2014-02-truth-stranger-fiction-science.html
The Future of Work
by 2020
http://www.elsua.net/2013/05/22/the-future-of-work-by-2020/
Personalized
medicine by 2020 and other futuristic healthcare predictions
(infographic)
http://medcitynews.com/2012/08/personalized-medicine-by-2020-this-and-other-predictions-on-the-future-of-healthcare-infographic/#ixzz2tLx3xLZP
NASA Invites
Private Companies To The Moon
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/nasa-invites-private-companies-moon
How The Internet
Of Things Is More Like The Industrial Revolution Than The Digital
Revolution
http://www.forbes.com/sites/oreillymedia/2014/02/10/more-1876-than-1995/
Atheer Glasses,
the Best Way to Experience the Future
http://arabnet.me/atheer-glasses-best-way-experience-future/
Next-Gen Nanotech
Breath Sensor Could Change How We Monitor Health
http://www.medgadget.com/2013/10/hold-next-gen-nanotech-sensor-could-change-the-way-we-monitor-health.html
Will your clothing
spy on you?
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/13/will-your-clothing-spy-on-you/?iid=SF_F_River&utm_content=bufferba667&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Two Female VCs
Launch Silicon Valley Firm To Show Diversity Equals Profit
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3026479/two-female-vcs-launch-silicon-valley-firm-to-show-diversity-equals-profit
How to Adjust to
the Silver-Tsunami of Working Baby Boomers?
http://synecticsworld.com/how-to-adjust-to-the-silver-tsunami-of-working-baby-boomers/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_content=3977617#
Colonialism's
Enduring Dividends. Why European Companies Have an Advantage in
Emerging Markets
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140776/bhaskar-chakravorti-jianwei-dong-kate-fedosova/colonialisms-enduring-dividends
Ad Infinitum. ‘Our
Mathematical Universe,’ by Max Tegmark.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/16/books/review/our-mathematical-universe-by-max-tegmark.html?_r=0
Yahoo’s Mayer
Views 2014 as Tech ‘Tipping Point’
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/yahoos-mayer-2014-tipping-point-for-technology/
Social platform
for sharing cyberthreat intell goes live
http://gcn.com/articles/2014/02/11/activetrust.aspx
QUOTATION(S):
“...The forces shaping your future are digital [and mathematical],
and you need to understand them...” AND “...You can’t
understand the knot without understanding the strands, but in the
future, the strands need not remain tied up in the same way as they
are today...” AND “...ALL CHILDREN ARE BORN GENIUSES; 9,999 OUT
OF EVERY 10,000 ARE SWIFTLY, INADVERTENTLY DEGENIUNIZED BY
GROWNUPS...” AND “...Supercomputers will achieve one human
brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about
2020 .... We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are
'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are
not .... We are beginning to see intimations of this in the
implantation of computer devices into the human body...” AND
“...People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything
that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it
hasn’t...”
CITATION(S):
“...We have the Internet that we have today because the Internet of
yesterday did not focus on the today of yesterday...” AND
“...Legal scholars can debate whether copyright law mandates a
future of ‘authorized use only’ for digital information. The
answer may not matter much, because that future is coming to pass
through the technologies of digital rights management and trusted
systems...” AND “...Can we envision the future transcontinental
flights, where books, music, images, and videos are automatically
extracted, sampled, mixed, and remixed; fed into massive automated
reasoning engines; assimilated into the core software of every
personal computer and every cell phone ─ and thousands of other
things for which the words don’t even exist yet?...” AND
“...Governments of the Industrial World, your weary giants of flesh
and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of
the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You have no so
sovereignty where we gather .... We are creating a world that all
may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic
power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world
where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how
singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity …
In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from
debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global
conversation of bits .... [Y]ou are trying to ward off the virus of
liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace...”
NEWEST, PRACTICAL
PRINCIPALS (TENETS) TO SEIZE SUSTAINABLE PROFESSIONAL, MANAGERIAL AND
BUSINESS SUCCESS TENTES: (18) Foster momentum by creating virtuous
cycles that build credibility and by avoiding getting caught in
vicious cycles that harm credibility. (19) Institute coalitions that
translate into swifter organizational adjustments to the inevitable
streams of change in personnel and environment.
BOOK(S): A Whole
New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
(ISBN-13: 978-1594481710).
N.B.: Quotations,
Citations and Success Tenets are by the Futuretronium Book.
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
Posted by http://goo.gl/JujXk
Dr. Andres Agostini → AMAZON.com/author/agostini → LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini → AGO26.blogspot.com → appearoo.com/AAGOSTINI
at
2/17/2014 05:38:00 PM
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Washington