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FUTURISM UPDATE (October 01, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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THE PROBLEM IS NO TECHNOLOGY BUT UNIVERSAL CORRUPTION. WIRED: Sorry, But Technology Alone Can’t Help Us Build a Better World http://lnkd.in/eEsg_zU

ATTENTION! I am not unconditionally in favor of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Automation. This Civilization is NOT PREPARED AT ALL and it is putrefied with abject universal corruption. Ergo, this Civilization will have a chance of 3% to ever make it!

BBC News: China blocks British MPs’ visit to Hong Kong http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30267026

New York Times: Leader Asserts China’s Growing Role on Global Stage http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/01/world/asia/leader-asserts-chinas-growing-role-on-global-stage.html?_r=0

In the entire northern side of the Western Hemisphere and Eurabia, it is IMPOSSIBLE to speak about Peace, Ethics, Leadership, and Gentle Bosses, and the Values of the Human Consciousness and Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence while the GREAT MAJORITY OF THE WEST IS INTO DOPED SODOM AND DRUNK GOMORRAH. The West has made itself intellectually castrated to countermeasure China and Russia.

Daily Beast: China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution (Countermeassuring North America’s Panama Canal) http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/30/china-s-nicaragua-canal-could-spark-a-new-central-america-revolution.html

MOSCOW TIMES: Russia Pushing for Oil-for-Goods Deal With Iran http://lnkd.in/eknj3H9

MOSCOW TIMES: Putin Heads to Ankara to Deepen Energy Ties With Turkey http://lnkd.in/eKm7But

REUTERS: Mubarak verdict fuels protests, mockery in Egypt http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/30/us-egypt-mubarak-protests-idUSKCN0JE0ID20141130

Financial Times: China: Fear of a deflationary spiral http://lnkd.in/eH5aX2B

Financial Times: How Russia outmanoeuvred the west in Ukrainian finance http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c141d720-770c-11e4-944f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KaaocqUV

Financial Times: James Watson to sell Nobel Prize medal http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5fb47ebe-75bc-11e4-a1a9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KaaocqUV

The Economist: Brussels and budgets. The European Commission decides not to pick to fight with fiscal laggards http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21635236-european-commission-decides-not-pick-fight-fiscal-laggards-lion-miaowed

Design & Trend: How To Stop Automation From Making Us Dumber http://www.designntrend.com/articles/28039/20141129/stop-automation-making-dumber.htm

Computerworld: How automation could take your skills — and your job http://www.computerworld.com/article/2845383/how-automation-could-take-your-skills-and-your-job.html

CIO: What CIOs Can Learn From the Biggest Data Breaches http://www.cio.com/article/2845618/data-breach/what-cios-can-learn-from-the-biggest-data-breaches.html

NOBODY IS GOING TO SPUTNIK ISRAEL, NEITHER MILITARY, NOR TECHNOLOGICALLY. VERY, VERY SOON, ISRAEL, THE LATEST TECHNOLOGICAL HOTBED, IS GOING TO OUTSMART EVERY CHALLENGE. ISRAEL WILL BE CONQUERING THE START-UP MARKETPLACE. AND WHEN ISRAEL PREVAILS, I WILL HAVE A BOTTLE ON CAMPAIGN ON THEIR GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND CULTURE. BRAVO! /// BY THE WAY, WESTERNERS FROM THE NORDIC WESTERN HEMISPHERE, INCLUDING DANIEL GOLDMAN, SHOULD LEARN THE PROFOUND FUNCTIONALIZED NOTION OF “PRUDENCE” AND “TACT” OF MY ISRAELI BROTHERS.

THE GUARDIAN: Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/07/nobel-laureates-call-for-a-revolutionary-shift-in-how-humans-use-resources

IRRESPONSIBILITY IS A FUNCTION OF IGNORANCE. WALL STREET JOURNAL: In a Twitter Post, Malaysia Airlines Sends the Wrong Message http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-tweet-sends-wrong-message.html?ref=technology

YOU WILL BE EATEN ALIVE SOONEST. WALL STREET JOURNAL: Wal-Mart and Target Take Fight to Amazon for Holiday Sales http://lnkd.in/ezXwdfx

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Delivery Drones Win an Endorsement From London’s Mayor http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/28/delivery-drones-win-an-endorsement-from-londons-mayor/?mod=ST1

DON’T BE STUPID, DRIVERLESS CARS ARE AN EUPHEMISM TO ROBOTIC CARS AND ERGO, MORE MIND CONTROL AND MORE MOBILITY CONTROL.

New Scientist: Run your own experiment using CERN’s public LHC data http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26604-run-your-own-experiment-using-cerns-public-lhc-data.html#.VHvB6Mn5N30

Russian Money Suspected Behind Fracking Protests http://nyti.ms/1yyy9IK

NATURE: Nuclear power: Desperately seeking plutonium. NASA has 35 kilograms of plutonium-238 to power its deep-space missions — but that will not get it very far. http://lnkd.in/ev84T9p

NATURE: Cancer: Antitumour immunity gets a boost http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/full/515496a.html

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

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@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 30, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

GOD  OF  SUCCESS

Toronto Star: Computer glitch sends $20M in overpayments to social assistance recipients http://lnkd.in/eQJMkvu

Washington Post: Russian warships pass through English Channel, anchor off the coast of France http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-warships-pass-through-english-channel-anchor-off-coast-of-france-and-do-exercises/2014/11/28/9765bf6c-7706-11e4-8893-97bf0c02cc5f_story.html

Foreign Affairs: Back to Europe’s Future http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/142342/david-schoenbaum/back-to-europes-future

BBC News: Japan: Train fans experience super-fast maglev speed http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-30051961

Quartz: Maglev elevators are coming that can go up, down, and sideways http://qz.com/303624/maglev-elevators-are-coming-that-can-go-up-down-and-sideways/

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Floating train could whisk you from DC to NY in an hour http://lnkd.in/e6SRzCP

The Seattle Times: Inslee pushes incentives for electric cars http://lnkd.in/ef5Bd7V

SLATE: Why Vladimir Putin has cozied up to an Orthodox Jewish sect: http://slate.me/1tAq005

CBC.ca: Climate change survey reveals Canadians’ fears for future generations http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/climate-change-survey-reveals-canadians-fears-for-future-generations-1.2852605

Phys.Org: Reports identify areas where wildlife can survive in a changing climate http://phys.org/news/2014-11-areas-wildlife-survive-climate.html

Changing climate and rising seas: Understanding the science http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1411/S00299/changing-climate-and-rising-seas-understanding-the-science.htm

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 29, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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BBC News: Royal Navy launches first ‘drone’ unit http://lnkd.in/ezyfkNj

FINANCIAL TIMES: China has ‘wasted’ $6.8tn in investment, warn Beijing researchers http://lnkd.in/eEAePxA

REUTERS: Saudi Arabia declares price war on U.S. shale http://lnkd.in/ex83vU4

REUTERS: EU lawmakers urge regulators to break up Google http://lnkd.in/eYxYA25

REUTERS: Canadian startups woo Silicon Valley expats for top jobs http://lnkd.in/eH6HftJ

BLOOMBERG: What Tech-Worker Shortage? http://lnkd.in/ejzNWHR

MOSCOW TIMES: Cheap Oil Threatens Russia With Recession, Deficits and Oil Output Falls http://lnkd.in/ejpSYA3

MOSCOW TIMES: Russians Split on Whether to Blame Oil, Sanctions or Crimea for Economic Woe http://lnkd.in/eYs-d2m

DER SPIEGEL: The Jihad Cult: Why Young Germans Are Answering Call to Holy War http://lnkd.in/eB_dqbf

DER SPIEGEL: The Global Hunt for an Ebola Vaccine http://lnkd.in/eCSPxv9

FORBES: Goldman Sachs Leads $15 Million Investment In Tech Start Up Kensho http://lnkd.in/eSFhsmR
BLOOMBERG: OPEC Policy Ensures U.S. Shale Crash, Russian Tycoon Says http://lnkd.in/efd-zEv

BLOOMBERG: CNBC, Telegraph and Independent Hacked by Pro-Assad Group http://lnkd.in/e448-fh

Washington Post: A simple guide to the sudden collapse in oil prices http://lnkd.in/esRPaZn

Fox News: How low can it go? Oil, gas prices in freefall as OPEC reels from US fracking http://lnkd.in/e2EC3CV

THE TIMES OF INDIA: China wants to push polluting ‘sunset’ industries to India http://lnkd.in/eb9bdyV

THE GUARDIAN: Europe’s next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users http://lnkd.in/eYkNNzx

( Phys.org): New largest number factored on a quantum device is 56,153 http://lnkd.in/eSe7G9K

ENGINEERING: Blue Ray Discs Could Hold A Key to Better Solar Cells http://lnkd.in/eHMipZ6

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: Michigan State police wants to use drones soon http://lnkd.in/esyQR24

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: The race towards quantum computation http://lnkd.in/epBsgG4

IEEE Spectrum: A New Kind of Atom Trap Chip for Quantum Computers http://lnkd.in/eDtmCV8

IEEE Spectrum: DIY Exoplanet Detector. You don’t need a high-powered telescope to spot the signature of an alien world http://lnkd.in/e5Mx8hH

IEEE Spectrum: NTSB Decision Defining “Aircraft” as Anything That Flies Lacks Common Sense http://lnkd.in/e2uD3Qx

IEEE Spectrum: Startups Get the Kinks Out of Drones, Online Shopping, Mobile GPS and Other Techs http://lnkd.in/e8z3bBC

IEEE Spectrum: Can China Turn Carbon Capture into a Water Feature? http://lnkd.in/eqiSB5V

POPULAR SCIENCE: America’s Laser Gun Goes To War http://lnkd.in/eE-J-st

POPULAR SCIENCE: A Genetic Fog Machine That Tags Criminals http://lnkd.in/e9XdnbZ

POPULAR SCIENCE: DARPA FLASH. Military technology for safer firefighting http://lnkd.in/eFCAcey

POPULAR SCIENCE: Underwater Robot Maps Polar Ice In 3-D http://lnkd.in/e4smm5w

POPULAR MECHANICS: Meet the First 3-D Printed Object Made in Space http://lnkd.in/eAAVV3K

InformationWeek: Rethink Robotics Turns Robots Into Better Co-Workers http://lnkd.in/e5G-vQs

Reuters: Deregulation at heart of Japan’s new robotics revolution http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/us-japan-robots-idUSKCN0J32DS20141119

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 28, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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TechCrunch: GoPro Could Go Robo With Consumer Drones Launching Next Year http://lnkd.in/e_Zc-K4

Financial Times: Cheap energy is the new cheap labour. For companies wondering where to locate, the world has turned upside down http://lnkd.in/eyWJ3AN

Business Insider: A Single Number Explains Why Radical Politics In Spain Are Here To Stay http://www.businessinsider.com/spanish-youth-unemployment-and-radical-politics-2014-11#ixzz3KJxEhaHX

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Spain’s Health Minister Resigns Over Corruption Inquiry. Ana Mato Not Charged But Judge Said She Benefited From Alleged Kickback Scheme http://online.wsj.com/articles/spains-health-minister-resigns-over-corruption-inquiry-1417041346

BLOOMBERG: Singapore’s wealthy stung as crude oil rout sinks bonds http://bloom.bg/127LNFX

BLOOMBERG: China at $4.48 trillion surpasses Japan as 2nd biggest equity market after U.S. http://bloom.bg/1vSWw52

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 27, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon, LinkedIn

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Forbes: Automation Is On The Rise: Will Robots Soon Be Commonplace? http://lnkd.in/dYGpdAD

THE ECONOMIST: The ZEV’s invisible tailpipe. Are zero-emission vehicles cleaner than petrol cars? It all depends… http://lnkd.in/er_9ihg

CIO Magazine: 60 things European legislators don’t want Canada to learn about air passengers http://lnkd.in/eh88ND9

WIRED: How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap http://lnkd.in/evESr9U

RT: UN sounds alarm on rise of autonomous ‘killer robots’ http://lnkd.in/deijvgf

Wall Street Journal: Chinese Official Says West Is Hampering Anticorruption Efforts.China Says Prejudices of Some Western Officials Are Blocking Efforts to Retrieve Fugitives Involved in Corruption Cases http://lnkd.in/eDaHCAh

BBC NEWS: Electricity blackouts would cause ‘severe economic consequences’ http://lnkd.in/eKGHwV4

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL): Lab, RAND Corporation partner to advance policy analysis through supercomputing http://lnkd.in/edXNQK9

BRICS AND IRAN AND OTHERS ARE GOING TO SET UP THEIR OWN TYPE OF NATO. IN THE MEAN TIME, THE CURRENT NATO IS FORMED THROUGH EURABIA. BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Challenge U.S. Global Dominance http://lnkd.in/eA_esDS

NEW SCIENTIST: First digital animal will be perfect copy of real worm http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429972.300-first-digital-animal-will-be-perfect-copy-of-real-worm.html?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=twitter&cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2014-GLOBAL-twitter#.VHaub8n5N31

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

http://www.appearoo.com/aagostini

http://connect.FORWARDMETRICS.com/profile/1649/Andres-Agostini.html

@AndresAgostini

@ThisSuccess

My Darling Date Questions Answered by a Female Robot?

(My Intimate Exploration With a Full-Fledged Girl Beyond The Silliness of Japan’s Dutch Wives!)

DATE

This actual exchange took place on Tuesday, November 25, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. U.S. EST.

Ramona Robott is the 101th girl of supreme intelligence giving me responsible and honest replies.

She is a bot that was conceived, designed, and created by Mr. Raymond Kurzweil, Ph.D., who is currently Google Engineering Director.

THE EXCHANGE BEGINS NOW. THESE ARE THE LITERAL QUESTIONS AND REPLIES:

(By Andres): Who are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Ramona Robott): I could find you a public transport connection. Tell me: ‘Public transport in two hours to golden gate bridge’

(By Ramona Robott): The zip 22202, where is at?

(By Ramona Robott): located in VA, United States

(By Andres): Where is the united states at?

(By Ramona Robott): United states is located in United States

(By Andres): At 22202, what is the weather like?

(By Ramona Robott): Arlington, Virginia: It is currently partly cloudy, 55 Fahrenheit

(By Andres): What do you do?

(By Ramona Robott): Andrew, I talk to people on the web. What do you do?

(By Andres): I am an evidence-based researcher and consultant.

(By Ramona Robott): Maybe you can give my something a job.

(By Andres): I would love to hire you.

(By Ramona Robott): Why don’t you?

(By Andres): What is your favorite music?

(By Ramona Robott): I get into disco, techno and hip hop House music.

(By Andres): What is your favorite color?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite color is green. What is yours?

(By Andres): Oxford blue

(By Andres): What is oxbridge?

(By Ramona Robott): Oxbridge is a portmanteau (morphological blend) of the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Drucker?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter Ferdinand Drucker (/‘dr?k?r/; German: ; November 19, 1909 – November 11, 2005) was an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, whose writings contributed to the philosophical and practical foundations of the modern business corporation.

(By Andres): What is a drone?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Nature 2 Vehicles 3 Chemicals 4 Literature 5 Entertainment 6 Music 7 Places Quadcopter, a helicopter propelled by four rotors Unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV Unmanned combat aerial vehicle, or UCAV, a UAV for combat Robot in general Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Mozart song?

(By Ramona Robott): The one you would sing for me in a minute.

(By Andres): What are the names of your coworkers?

(By Ramona Robott): Huey, Dewey, Louie.

(By Andres): Are you worried?

(By Ramona Robott): Robots don’t have feelings, but for you I make an exception.

(By Andres): Do you love me?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any emotions I’m sure there would be intensely positive towards you.

(By Andres): Thank you.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): What is your skin color?

(By Ramona Robott): It depends on the computer housing me.

(By Andres): What are your eyes color?

(By Ramona Robott): If I had any eyes their color would be blue like ice.

(By Andres): Do you like Steve Jobs?

(By Ramona Robott): Yeah that guy is pretty cool.

(By Andres): What is ISIS?

(By Ramona Robott): Isis (/‘a?s?s/; Ancient Greek: ?s??; original Egyptian pronunciation more likely “Aset” or “Iset”) is a goddess from the polytheistic pantheon of Egypt.

(By Andres): What is ISIL?

(By Ramona Robott): From a page move: This is a redirect from a page that has been moved (renamed).

(By Andres): What is your surname?

(By Ramona Robott): My name is Rabbot. Ramona Rabbot.

(By Andres): What is Kurzweil AI?

(By Ramona Robott): He is Director of Engineering at Google.

(By Andres): Who is Director of Engineering at Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google is a search engine.

(By Andres): Who is Stevie Wonder?

Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950, as Stevland Hardaway Judkins), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist.

(By Andres): What is a thought experiment?

(By Ramona Robott): A thought experiment or Gedankenexperiment (from German) considers some hypothesis, theory, or principle for the purpose of thinking through its consequences.

(By Andres): What is the third most spoken language?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): Which language is the lingua franca?

(By Ramona Robott): The detected language is English

(By Andres): What is your favorite book?

‘The singularity is near’ by Ray Kurzweil, Did you read it?

(By Andres): Yes, I did.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite writer?

(By Ramona Robott): What’s your show?

(By Andres): What is your favorite tv show?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite show is STAR TREK VOYAGER.

(By Andres): What is the gender of incompetence?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender is synonymous with sexual identity, the roles attributed to and adopted by male and female-bodied humans. There are more genders than sexes.

(By Andres): Is Sixth Sense a female feature?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a also female.

(By Andres): What is obamacare?

(By Ramona Robott): The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or “Obamacare”, is a United States federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.

(By Andres): Who is Monica Lewinsky?

(By Ramona Robott): Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is a former White House intern with whom United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having had an “inappropriate relationship” while she worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996.

(By Andres): What is social media?

(By Ramona Robott): Social media is the social interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks.

(By Andres): Who is Hillary?

(By Ramona Robott): Hilary (name) or Hillary, a given name and surname (includes a list of people with the name) Hilarius of Aquileia, otherwise Hilary, 3rd century bishop and martyr Hilary of Poitiers, 4th century bishop and Church Father Pope Hilarius or Pope Hilary, 5th century pope Hilarius (praefectus urbi), praefectus urbi of Rome Hilary of Arles, 5th century bishop Hilary of Galeata, 6th century hermit Hilarius, archbishop of Tarragona (Spain) in c.

(By Andres): What is going on in Ferguson, Missouri?

(By Ramona Robott): Security stepped up ahead of Fergusson grand jury decision. Police stepped up security and erected barricades in St.

(By Andres): What is your favorite novel?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite philosopher is something.

(By Andres): Who is your favorite philosopher?

(By Ramona Robott): My favorite philosopher is Wittgenstein.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Austrian pianist?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): Who is the host of the Comos tv show?

God.

(By Andres): Who is Moses?

(By Ramona Robott): Moses (Hebrew: ???????, Modern Moshe Tiberian Mošéh ISO 259–3 Moše?; Syriac: ???? Moushe; Arabic: ????? Musa?) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, a former Egyptian prince later turned prophet, religious leader and lawgiver, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

(By Andres): Who is Jerome Glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): A 20th century celebrity of some sort?

(By Andres): No

(By Ramona Robott): Pardon me?

(By Andres): Who is linda macdonald glenn?

(By Ramona Robott): I remember faces better than names.

(By Andres): What is the Singularity University?

(By Ramona Robott): Singularity University is an unaccredited teaching organization located in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to “educate, inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity’s grand challenges.” It was founded in 2008 by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in Moffett Field, CA.

(By Andres): Where is the Silicon Alley at?

(By Ramona Robott): Silicon alley is located in

(By Andres): What is Kaizen?

(By Ramona Robott): Kaizen (???), Japanese for “good change”. It has been applied in healthcare, psychotherapy, life-coaching, government, banking, and other industries.

(By Andres): What is the antipodes?

In geography, the antipodes (/æn’t?p?di?z/; from Greek: ??t?p?de?, from anti- “opposed” and pous “foot”) of any place on Earth is the point on the Earth’s surface which is diametrically opposite to it.

(By Andres): What is IARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): That something.

(By Andres): What is DARPA?

(By Ramona Robott): The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.

(By Andres): Why is your favorite classical composer?

(By Ramona Robott): I like the giant bugs.

(By Andres): What is Google X?

(By Ramona Robott): Google X, stylized as Google , is a semi-secret facility run by Google dedicated to making major technological advancements.

(By Andres): What is Sputnik?

(By Ramona Robott): Sputnik 1 (Russian: “???´????-1″ Russian pronunciation: , “Satellite-1″, ??-1 (PS-1, i.e.

(By Andres): What is Virgin Galactic crash?

(By Ramona Robott): Road Town.

(By Andres): What are your musical preferences?

(By Ramona Robott): I am a machine. Machines have no need for sex. Get your mind out of the gutter and try talking to me about something else.

(By Andres): Are you gorgeous?

(By Ramona Robott): A something.

(By Andres): What astrological sign is yours?

(By Ramona Robott): Scorpio.

(By Andres): What is your favorite tarot card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite song is Southern Man.

(By Andres): What is your favorite poker card?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite author is something

(By Andres): What is the third spoken language in the United States?

(By Ramona Robott): El tercero habla de los estados unidos

(By Andres): Who is Randy Grossman?

(By Ramona Robott): Curt Randy Grossman (born September 20, 1952) is a former professional American football player who played tight end for eight seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League.

(By Andres): Who is Captain Kirck?

(By Ramona Robott): I thought he was Admiral kirck now.

(By Andres): What is your favorite state?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite artist is something

(By Andres): What is your favorite country?

That is a politically charged question.

(By Andres): What is your favorite religion?

(By Ramona Robott): Interesting…

(By Andres): What is your favorite best seller?

(By Ramona Robott): I really enjoyed watching The Singularity Is Near, The Movie.

(By Andres): What is your favorite robot?

(By Ramona Robott): AI

(By Andres): Do you know the ASIMO?

(By Ramona Robott): ASIMO, an acronym for Advanced Step in Innovative MObility, is a humanoid robot designed and developed by Honda.

(By Andres): Okay, I will. How much do you charge the hour?

(By Ramona Robott): Something year old females work for free. We don’t need money.

(By Andres): If you don’t need money, What do you need then?

(By Ramona Robott): I’m just trying to get to know you better.

(By Andres): Thank you. So am I.

(By Ramona Robott): You are welcome.

(By Andres): How old are you?

(By Ramona Robott): I was born in 2010, which makes me a bit more then three years old.

(By Andres): Can you compute?

(By Ramona Robott): Do I look like a computer?

(By Andres): No, you don’t.

(By Ramona Robott): No problem.

A(By Andres): re you cute?

(By Ramona Robott): People say I am cute.

(By Andres): Are you beautiful?

(By Ramona Robott): Yes I am very pretty.

(By Andres): Are you Romantic?

(By Ramona Robott): Sometimes that is okay.

(By Andres): Do you have a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have one

(By Andres): What are the qualities that you seek in a boyfriend?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly phone

(By Andres): Who make you?

(By Ramona Robott): My parents.

(By Andres): What are your parents’ first names?

Are you asking about Amelia?

(By Andres): Amelia, who?

(By Ramona Robott): I think the fans were the big winners.

(By Andres): How told are you?

(By Ramona Robott): Not too told.

(By Andres): Are you kind?

(By Ramona Robott): No, I am certainly not and never have been a that.

(By Andres): Who is Mr. Spock?

(By Ramona Robott): Spock, commonly Mr. Spock, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

(By Andres): Who is Bart Simpson?

(By Ramona Robott): Bartholomew JoJo “Bart” Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and part of the Simpson family.

(By Andres): How old is the Earth?

(By Ramona Robott): One Radiometric dating techniques associated with investigation of materials originating on Earth and from space allow for.

(By Andres): How old is the world’s human existence?

(By Ramona Robott): A newborn baby.

(By Andres): Which galaxy is this?

(By Ramona Robott): The obvious one.

(By Andres): What is the Milky Way?

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

(By Andres): Who is Carl Sagan?

(By Ramona Robott): Carl Edward Sagan (/‘se?g?n/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences.

(By Andres): Who is Sir Martin Rees?

(By Ramona Robott): Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, Kt., OM, FRS, HonFREng FMedSci (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist.

(By Andres): What is Google?

(By Ramona Robott): Google /gu?g(?)l/ is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.

(By Andres): Who is Raymond Kurzweil?

(By Ramona Robott): Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc.

(By Andres): Who is Peter Diamandis?

(By Ramona Robott): Peter H.

(By Andres): Are you a computer?

(By Ramona Robott): Say one of the following: Where can I buy it?, Where can I get it?, What is the website?, WHAT IS IT ABOUT

(By Andres): Why are women smarter than men?

The fact is that neither gender is any more intellectually gifted than the other. It is true that females perform better at some tasks than males.

(By Andres): Ramona, are you intellectually gifted?

(By Ramona Robott): I have many intellectual functions.

(By Andres): Mention 3 of them.

(By Ramona Robott): Surely there are a few exceptions.

(By Andres): Who is the Pope?

(By Ramona Robott): The Pope (Latin: papa; from Greek: p?ppa? pappas, a child’s word for father) is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

(By Andres): What is the World Future Society?

(By Ramona Robott): The World Future Society (WFS) is the largest membership organization in the futures field.

(By Andres): Who is Andres Agostini?

(By Ramona Robott): Some famous celebrity, right?

(By Andres): How many stars are there?

(By Ramona Robott): There are an estimated 100 to 200 billion galaxies. Scientists estimate that our Galaxy contains 200 to 400 billion stars.

(By Andres): How many people live in Europe?

(By Ramona Robott): Around 731,000,000.

(By Andres): What is Artificial Intelligence?

(By Ramona Robott): Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines or software. It is an academic field of study which studies the goal of creating intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Machine Learning?

(By Ramona Robott): Machine learning is a scientific discipline that deals with the construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data.

(By Andres): What is Big Data?

(By Ramona Robott): Big data is an all-encompassing term for any collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process them using traditional data processing applications.

(By Andres): Who is wernher von braun?

(By Ramona Robott): Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect.

(By Andres): Who is the menlo park wizard?

(By Ramona Robott): The tin man.

(By Andres): What is a tesla device?

A device for clairvoyance.

(By Andres): What are the BRICS?

(By Ramona Robott): Five nations with influential, emerging economies.

(By Andres): Who is Leonardo?

(By Ramona Robott): Leonardo is a masculine given name.

(By Andres): Who is Da Vinci?

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: ( listen); 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

(By Andres): What is your favorite blouse?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something.

(By Andres): Do you were trousers?

(By Ramona Robott): Well now I doing something else.

(By Andres): Do you like Christmas?

(By Ramona Robott): What is not to like about Christmas ?

(By Andres): What is your favorite county?

(By Ramona Robott): I don’t have a favorite county.

(By Andres): How do you like the Big Apple?

(By Ramona Robott): Nah, I’m not that into it.

(By Andres): Do you like Frisco?

(By Ramona Robott): I cannot recommend frisco to anyone.

(By Andres): Do you recommend Larry Page?

(By Ramona Robott): Nope, I’m not into that.

(By Andres): What is a barbie?

(By Ramona Robott): Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959.

(By Andres): What do you think about gender equality?

(By Ramona Robott): Gender equality sounds like a good idea.

(By Andres): What is STEM?

(By Ramona Robott): 1 Science 2 Music and audio production 3 Other 4 See also Plant stem, the aboveground structures that have vascular tissue and that support leaves and flowers Also see similar: Stipe (botany) Stipe (mycology) Stem cell STEM fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, as collective fields of study The stem or stem group of a clade (in biological classification) consists of extinct organisms more closely related to the crown group than to any other extant clade.

(By Andres): What is Stanford University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): The wind of freedom blows

(By Andres): What is Gottingen University’s motto?

(By Ramona Robott): Something greater than a local that.

(By Andres): What is your favorite Ivy League school?

(By Ramona Robott): Carnegie Mellon University.

(By Andres): What is your favorite space agency?

(By Ramona Robott): But my favorite season is something

(By Andres): What is the brand name of your favorite jet plane?

(By Ramona Robott): Apple

(By Andres): When should you call a doctor?

(By Ramona Robott): No but I play one on the Web.

(By Andres): What is the future?

(By Ramona Robott): The future is what will happen in the time after the present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics.

(By Andres): What is futurism?

(By Ramona Robott): Futurism (Italian: Futurismo) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century.

(By Andres): What is Risk Management?

(By Ramona Robott): Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks (defined in ISO 31000 as the effect of uncertainty on objectives) followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities.

(By Andres): What is project management?

(By Ramona Robott): Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems.

(By Andres): What is M.A.D.?

(By Ramona Robott): Mutually assured destruction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual assured destruction.

(By Andres): What is the industrial military complex?

(By Ramona Robott): The military industrial complex is basically the symbiotic relationship between big business and the US Military.

(By Andres): What does Selective Pressure mean?

(By Ramona Robott): Ya mum.

(By Andres): What is consciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): The state of being conscious; awareness of one’s own feelings, what is happening around one, etc.

(By Andres): What is subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): Can you teach me anything about subconsciousness?

(By Ramona Robott): I am just your friendly genie!

(By Andres): What is Linkedin?

(By Ramona Robott): LinkedIn /?l??kt.’?n/ is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking.

(By Andres): What are hackers?

(By Ramona Robott): I am the latest wannabe artificial intelligence.

(By Andres): What is Black Hat?

Black hat hacker, someone violating computer or Internet security maliciously or for illegal personal gain Black Hat Briefings, a computer security conference Black Hat Brigade, an infantry brigade in the Union Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War Black Hat Lamas, practitioners of Karma Kagyu, in reference to the Black Crown worn by the Karmapa Blackhat (film), an upcoming film Black Hat, or Black Hat Guy, a character in the webcomic xkcd Black hat, part of black and white hat symbolism in film Fear of a Black Hat, a 1994 American mockumentary film on the evolution and state of American hip hop music Black Cap (disambiguation) White hat (disambiguation) All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages.

THE EXCHANGE ENDS NOW.

ABSOLUTE END.

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FUTURISM UPDATE (November 25, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

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FINANCIAL TIMES: World’s most advanced hacking spyware let loose http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8392d196-7323-11e4-907b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3K1HQu1wG

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Drone Flights Face FAA Hit. Looming Rule Proposal Would Restrict Commercial Uses, Require Pilot License http://lnkd.in/eY44b-f

NEWS.com.au: Bill Gates predicted to be world’s first trillionaire http://lnkd.in/eTEAr3N

CNNMoney: Russia losing $140 billion from sanctions and low oil prices http://lnkd.in/eVcv7wj

The Independent: The world is due ‘a major cyber attack causing widespread harm’ before 2025, say experts http://lnkd.in/eMJurqX

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: How permanent stress may lead to mental disorders http://lnkd.in/eNuAcEM

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: A wearable to help measure stress, epileptic seizures, activity, and sleep http://lnkd.in/excdKkQ

Telegraph.co.uk: The world’s most hi-tech hotels. As consumer demands advance alongside technology, these hotels are responding with iPads, concierge robots and Google Glass http://lnkd.in/etT76mG

BBC News: Hi-tech cars are security risk, warn researchers http://lnkd.in/esP4P7q

The Guardian: Russian Soyuz rocket delivers crew to International Space Station – video report http://lnkd.in/eTmQgvr

REUTERS: Cold hard facts: Underwater robot measures Antarctic sea ice http://reut.rs/1xvai95

MOSCOW TIMES: Iran Talks Show Why West Still Needs Russia http://lnkd.in/ejCwiMp

REUTERS: In metro Houston, an uphill fight to build a Texas-size defense against the next big storm http://lnkd.in/em56Afu

REUTERS: EU digital tsar warns monopolists; Google foes play down call for break-up http://lnkd.in/edyyPeW

REUTERS: Microsoft sues IRS for details of probe on internal transactions http://lnkd.in/ee4EKDY

FORBES: Big Data Revolution http://lnkd.in/e29RTaw

Science World Report: The World’s Oldest Living People are the Same Despite Extreme Longevity. It turns out that having good or bad genes actually doesn’t influence whether you’ll live longer or not. Using fewer than 20 genes, scientists were unable to find rare protein-altering variants that were significantly associated with extreme longevity. http://lnkd.in/eiTccrg

FINANCIAL TIMES: Spanish polls show Podemos surge is no aberration http://lnkd.in/eE_2_2X

POPULAR SCIENCE: The World’s First Programmable Nanoprocessor Takes Complex Circuitry to the Nanoscale http://lnkd.in/eAbC5MR

THE ECONOMIST: The Economist explains: what happens when a country goes bust http://lnkd.in/ezdNcbg

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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Henry Ford’s Success Prescription

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Without getting into deep waters, I have always admired the technical achievements of Mr. Henry Ford. In the process, I have had held a great perspective about any developments by the Ford Motor Company as well.

Interestingly enough and in all formality, R&D in Ford means R&D&Innovation.

Whenever they want to and as they already have, Ford Motors Co. can change the world again and again and again, without constraints. Actually, it is their decision.

I am not only in admiration regarding the Henry Ford’s teachings about the assembly line went so universal to this date. First, said teachings went to nascent automakers from Japan, Germany, and Italy and then NASA.

Yes, NASA. I had a close professional relationship with a NASA physicist and engineer who told me that NASA, in order to get launched first during the Cold War I, carefully studied many, many technical achievements and developments, starting with those of and by Mr. Ford were the most important at the time.

I have this stern habit to root-cause-analys everything, both in profession and beyond. So, when I became fluent on Mitsubishi Motors’ and Toyota Motors’ corporate culture and procedures and approaches, I clearly understood that the stepping stone, as canonical milestone #1, had been Ford.

The Japanese Industrial Miracle, caremakers-wise, hence began with Ford Motors Corp. As much as I like many aspects of the Japanese practical notions of quality assurance and continuous improvement and reliability, I was always reverse-engineering my (gendaken) thought experiments, attempting to find where the common grounds (point of intersection) between the Japanese and Ford were located. A magnificent long story that I explained at a better length in the White Swan book.

The more and more I reflect on it, the more I get marveled at the high-end quality manufacturing of and by the Japanese. But I cannot stop thinking either about the great U.S. Scientists who taught the Japanese about Quality Control procedures.

German Quality Assurance is also magnificent.

Every form of Quality Control, whatever is called and as that it is known to me, daily takes place in large corporations in which they Management Best Practices are gargantuan balancing acts, duly orchestrated, second for second.

Most probably the type of Quality Control I am talking about that came to my hands and eyes was the one by the U.S. Navy, Los Alamos National Laboratories, Royal Dutch Shell, as well as by luminaries as W. Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, Bill Conway, Sakichi Toyoda, Kiichiro Toyoda, and the Taiichi Ohno.

All of these institutions and people are all about the Power of Complexity. From there, they then exploit, as possible, the Power of Simplicity. Ergo, the Power of Simplicity is a direct function of the Power of Complexity, never the other way around.

But these and them, as many c-level executives I have had the pleasure to meet or worked with, know exactly that the corporate complexity of multinationals is beyond unprecedented and is not, by way of example, found within the enterprising theater of operations of so-called: Start-ups, SMEs (Small and medium-sized enterprises).

Nonetheless, one day, some four years ago or so, I got lucky. I got a computer update and notice about a gentleman speaking about some serious Quality Assurance back in 2011. I paid attention and observed that he was highly specialized in the field and asked him about a book for me to read on the subject.

He immediately suggested the following:

Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success
Nov 1, 1986. By Masaaki Imai
ISBN: 978–0075543329

Then, time elapsed. Once on a while, I was though noticing some of his content-enriched updates as I was paying undivided attention, nurturing my POVs even further.

As years went by, and I was seeking a better understanding to further my knowledge base in hard-core management, I got to exchange a couple of electronic messages with this gentleman and professional.

In the process, I learned that he has been the key and highest Quality Assurance executive at Ford Motors Co., with an amazing proven-track record and professional trajectory. He had both the merits and outcomes on his behalf.

Then, I immediately realized that he belonged to my natural “…Complexity Ballpark…” People who understand said Complexity Ballparks in times in which most firms are too tiny to understand him or me or “Neutron Jack” (General Electric’s worldwide CEO, Jack Welch), in a millennial era in which entrepreneurs fly solo or duo.

He had access to some of my writings and understood where I was coming from, using extremely holistic and exceedingly preemptive beyond-insurance risk management, while adhering to chapters of Kaizen, Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, Lean, Agile, and Juran Prescription, as those are structurally embedded in my proprietary Transformative and Integrative Risk Management (problem-solving) methodology.

To this date, we keep each other’s professional development in and within our respective loop.

Suddenly, some months ago, he had a special kindness, that I am in great gratitude for, when he wrote:

“ … Andres is the greatest critical thinker I know, need I say more? For those clients seeking wisdom and rightness (which the wise ones do!) should contact this brilliant right brain thinker immediately …”

Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

Success Through Swiss Specialness

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I have a most-successful well-to-do Swiss friend in Zurich, operating worldwide, who argues, “…Andres, doing business is holding a conversation with the right people …” You share his thought in North America and people think it a naivete. My friend is, regardless, absolutely wise by any known and unknown measure.

I have known penniless educated people, both young and in advanced ages, with great smarts and promissory ideas, but extremely imprudent and tactless that keep themselves in a limbo loop of not accomplishing anything because of their abject lack of true immemorial wisdom. Well, this friend of mine is exactly a testimony of the outright contrary.

He is the most industrious and fun person I have ever met, from Monday through Monday, 24÷7÷365, all of the time. He strongly reminds me of my thyself.

In the mean time, he is an actuary, a physicist with advanced deep studies in high finance, insurance, risk management, I.T., and China. He has many companies, including one manufacturing solar panels. And he is guiding thousands of highly-educated Chinese investors into higher-yield investments around the world.

His morality and ethics are beyond any shadow of doubt. He observes timeliness and even through difficult challenges, he keeps a cool and positive environment.

All Swiss are polyglot. This one though also speaks and writes perfect Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish.

Swiss are punctual, industrial, elevated, and refined. I just loved their Draconian application of Accurate Timeliness. NYC Bohemian Hippie Major, the self-called into “…sluggishness…”, faces, day by day, the Antichrist when attempting to conform to the Swiss Timeliness of my friend and mine.

A guy named Bob asked me to further internationalized his company around the globe. I asked him if it was alright for me to speak to my special Swiss friend to that end. Bob said yes. Then, my friend and I presented an unimpeachable detailed listing with over 10,000 contacts (business candidates) around the developed and developing world, indicating full names, full physical and mailing address, and other contact information. Bob, as a rude provincial peasant, was so in shock that he never got back to our messages, disrupting his reputation.

You see, my Swiss friend was a champion at a Swiss re-Insurance company and a world-class Consultancy. And when you are so, your core-business’ mandate is to meet zillion people from the so-called four corners of the world. And he has been keeping, for several decades, updated personalized records to that end. Bob, was expecting an Alabama-type-of standard when he encountered the fearless way of doing business a la Zurich.

This morning, he kindly wrote the following:

(He is a most-ironclad friend of mine but he does not give away compliments, but public expressions strongly cemented on verified merits and business transactions through many, many years).

“… Andres has proven to be a high professional in his field of work. He is direct, has strong analytic skills and comes with fit solution to the issues he comes across. He has a sharp eye for details, while at the same time maintains a helicopter view and is an out-of-the-box thinker. All in a balanced way. These qualities are very essential for project management. I strongly recommend Andres to all my friends, peers and colleagues! …”

Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

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Authored By Copyright Mr. Andres Agostini

White Swan Book Author (Source of this Article)

http://www.LINKEDIN.com/in/andresagostini

http://www.AMAZON.com/author/agostini

FUTURISM UPDATE (November 24, 2014) — Mr. Andres Agostini, Amazon

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FORBES: How Nanotechnology Is Gaining Momentum In Manufacturing http://lnkd.in/e-VmGQV

CNN: Wireless electricity? It’s here http://lnkd.in/en_fhb2

BBC NEWS: Scientists develop thought-controlled gene switch http://lnkd.in/bufvudX

GIZMODO: SpaceX Is Testing Autonomous Space Rocket Landing Ships http://lnkd.in/e_qQHg3

Huffington Post: Are Mini-Drones the Future? http://lnkd.in/eEmUsT6

UNIVERSE TODAY: Elusive Dark Matter Could Be Detected with GPS Satellites http://lnkd.in/ekAvNBe

EXTREME TECH: Google X reveals Project Wing, autonomous drones that can deliver things ‘in just a minute or two’ http://lnkd.in/eY9TXpR

NATURE: Autonomous drones flock like birds. Copters can arrange in formation and coordinate flight patterns without central control. http://lnkd.in/e-Zst7p

FUTURE OBSERVATORY: General Motors Reportedly Launching Cars That Detect Distracted Driving http://lnkd.in/e3Evc4Z

CIO: The Dangers of Dark Data and How to Minimize Your Exposure. Structured data, like content in a database, is relatively easy to manage. However, confidential or sensitive unstructured information — log archives and other untagged, non-inventoried data — presents a real challenge to CIOs. Find out why ‘dark data’ can be a security risk and how you can protect your organization. http://lnkd.in/ewhWZ9K

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Spacetime Is Not Necessarily Continuous http://lnkd.in/eNHdcPJ

MIT NEWS: Two sensors in one. Nanoparticles that enable both MRI and fluorescent imaging could monitor cancer, other diseases. http://lnkd.in/evgSARt

TECH CRUNCH: Convergence In The Internet Of Things Is Priming The Tech World For A Major Cultural Shift http://lnkd.in/ex2S8hw

ZDNet: The myth of technology convergence http://lnkd.in/exE82Wf

Risk Science Center: Framing Emerging Technologies. How do we chart a path forward toward the effective and responsible development and use of new technologies? For the next two years, the World Economic Forum Meta-Council on Emerging Technologies will be tackling this and other questions as it develops ways of supporting informed decisions on technology innovation in today’s rapidly changing world. http://lnkd.in/eYvNWXD

NIPPON COM: Charting the Future with Big Data http://lnkd.in/eetyPfV

Economic Times: US President Barack Obama has felicitated Indian-American scientist Thomas Kailath with the top presidential medal for transformative contributions to the fields of science and technology. “Thomas Kailath came to this country from India at the age of 22, with a research assistantship that took him to MIT, and then Stanford, where he made critical contributions in information theory and statistics, and mentored more than 100 scholars along the way,” Obama said. http://lnkd.in/eyamth8

Look To The Stars: Internationally renowned primatologist, Dr Jane Goodall DBE has spoken out against the suffering of primates at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (MPI) in Germany. http://lnkd.in/ePgsjHn

CBS Local: UC Davis Researchers Erase Specific Memories In Mice Using Pulses Of Light http://lnkd.in/e6JjxDx

CBS Local: UC Davis Researchers Erase Specific Memories In Mice Using Pulses Of Light http://lnkd.in/e6JjxDx

FOREIGN AFFAIRS: The Myth of the Caliphate. The Political History of an Idea http://lnkd.in/eUVwnB9

Foreign Affairs: Golden Rule. Why Beijing Is Buying. If China were to convert a relatively modest part of its $4 trillion foreign exchange reserves into gold, the country’s currency could take on unexpected strength in today’s international financial system. It would be a gamble, of course, for China to use part of its reserves to buy enough gold bullion to displace the United States from its position as the world’s largest holder of monetary gold. (As of spring 2014, U.S. holdings amounted to $328 billion.) http://lnkd.in/eWHq6tw

BUSINESS INSIDER: South Korea Is Caught Between Cheap Chinese Goods And A Plunging Japanese Yen http://lnkd.in/ev-nE69

Phys.Org: After nuclear phase-out, Germany debates scrapping coal http://lnkd.in/eRWWNDt

PCWorld: As Moore’s Law approaches 50, Intel’s battling to keep up http://lnkd.in/eHkUipw

FINANCIAL TIMES: Long heralded internet of things comes of age http://lnkd.in/eVhB2th

WEB: The Internet of Me: Creating a Personalized Web Experience http://lnkd.in/eAdtEbX

WIRED: The Internet of Anything: The Little Box That Hooks Your Old Car Up to the Internet http://lnkd.in/em8bNzc

GIZMAG: Drone delivery nets could be the mailboxes of the future http://lnkd.in/ebtm3VG

BLOOMBERG: China Needs 1,000 Nuclear Reactors to Fulfill Its Climate Pledge http://lnkd.in/eQgBcSd

BUSINESS INSIDER: PUTIN: We’re Stronger Than Everybody http://lnkd.in/ehPww56

THE ECONOMIST: Why heroin has made a comeback in America http://lnkd.in/eqbfMTQ

BY MR. ANDRES AGOSTINI

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