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The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Fuzzy Logic Versus Pseudo-Fuzzy Logic, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

Fuzzy Logic Versus Pseudo-Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Logic: (A form of algebra employing a range of values from “true” to “false” that is used in decision-making with imprecise data, as in artificial intelligence systems, as a result of corporate manager’s perpetual MOST-RECURSIVE search for lucrative intangibles in omniverseral: (a) hidden quadrants and (b) ignored flanks and © forgotten angles, and (d) recondite spheres and (e) hermetic theater of operations and (e) unrealized orbits.

Pseudo-Fuzzy Logic: (A form of algebra employing a range of values from quasi-“true” to quasi-“false” that is used in decision-making with quasi-imprecise data, as in artificial intelligence systems, as a result of corporate manager’s perpetual MOST-RECURSIVE search for lucrative intangibles in omniverseral: (a) hidden quadrants and (b) ignored flanks and © forgotten angles, and (d) recondite spheres and (e) hermetic theater of operations and (e) unrealized orbits.

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Practical Leadership Success Tenets, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, a t https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

Practical Leadership Success Tenets by Mr. Andres Agostini:

# 1 — This Leader archetype is An Actionable Statesman.

# 2 — This Leader archetype is thoroughly moral and ethical in deed and spontaneously projected example.

# 3 — This Leader archetype is happily located and navigating through Century 21.

# 4 — This Leader archetype is, by far, focused on solid and increasing education and perpetual mind expansion, chiefly those acquired by solving truly complex problems systematically.

# 5 — This Leader archetype is Self-Pedagogue forever. This Leader archetype teaches to self-tech to his / her crew for Life.

# 6 — This Leader archetype Leads, Co-Leads, Follows, Co-Follows, Plans, Co-Plans, Invents, Re-Invents, Co-Invents, Co-Reinvents, Executes, Co-Executes, Builds, Co-Builds, Envisions, Co-Envisions, Paves and Co-Paves Never-Thought-Of Pathways.

# 7 — This Leader archetype is Intuitive, Counterintuitive, and seamlessly blends both of the above without paralyzing in the analysis.

# 8 — This Leader archetype Takes all — encompassing curiosity as it is operated in real time — beyond known and unknown extremes.

# 9 — This Leader archetype makes every mistake — own or that of the competitor — at the expense of adversaries into his / her won victory.

# 10 — This Leader archetype doesn’t care how fluid and amorphous the limits, contexts and the dynamics of his / her blurred theater of operations are.

# 11 — This Leader archetype can strategize and prevail through many operational frameworks at once without getting bewildered.

# 12 — This Leader archetype challenges every assumption, doctrine and dogma ruthlessly and relentlessly, beginning with his / her own ones.

# 13 — This Leader archetype Learns something practical, meaningful, and decisively productive and significant every day.

# 14 — This Leader archetype Heightens crew’s sense of urgency and of focus.

# 15 — Re-adapts and re-invents resiliently and effortlessly regardless of whatever constraints and increasing pressures stemming from the frame of reference.

# 16 — This Leader archetype operates multidimensionally and cross-functionally.

# 17 — This Leader archetype constantly and boldly sets pre-conditions to maximize the likelihood of his / her triumphs.

# 18 — This Leader archetype always selects and develops his / her leadership constituency.

# 19 — This Leader archetype creates and applies his / her own — along with that of the team — body of knowledge.

# 20 — This Leader archetype does never ever institute “best practices,” but UNIQUE, premium-graded approaches.

# 21 — This Leader archetype carries on much swifter that “life cycles” intrinsic to products, services, challenges, and complex problem solving.

# 22 — This Leader archetype does not get concerned about his / her adversaries since the uniqueness and ever-upgrading quality of tactics, strategies and stratagems as applied.

# 23 — This Leader archetype harmonizes issues immediately. Yes, he fights against adversities and their proponents. But, at the end, This Leader archetype is a peace maker.

# 24 — This Leader archetype’s leadership is always (and robustly so) linked to concrete and unambiguous objective and goals.

# 25 — This Leader archetype Always updates his methods, approaches, techniques, tactics, strategies, especially using those that are extraneous to so-called and already disrupted (published or unpublished) “history.” (Which one, that wrote by winners or that stated by losers or that always failing to have sufficient objectivity?)

# 26 — This Leader archetype continuously learns lessons — and improves those — both from incurred mistakes and from captured successes.

# 27 — This Leader archetype extracts information and knowledge — to be shared and brainstormed with the crew in advance — out of everything done, thought, as well as to be executed regardless of the incumbent.

# 28 — This Leader archetype wins only based on merit, principle, legitimacy and lawfulness.

# 29 — This Leader archetype strategizes the granularity of detail of everything. There is no such a thing as a leader that is not a strategist and a consummated visionary. Fringe, “terra incognita” and fuzzy-logic zones are highly stimulating to his / her starving intellect.

# 30 — This Leader archetype embraces leading-edge (even weird) science and its stemming technological derivatives immediately.

# 31 — This Leader archetype enjoys phenomena and prevails as he / she navigates through said phenomena.

# 32 — This Leader archetype is never commonsensical and always pervasively challenging long-held assumptions as he / she institutes the most unorthodox and exuberant novel practices (lavishly so).

# 33 — De-tools, tools, re-tools the amplification of the individual and collective intelligence within his / her crew.

# 34 — This Leader archetype instills how to operate autonomously and jointly — in pursuit of the same goals and objectives — to his / her followers and co-leaders.

# 35 — This Leader archetype learns from his / her mistakes, but empathizes to learn also from the mistakes of others.

# 36 — This Leader archetype fluidly shares experience and practical knowledge across every incumbent in the crew.

# 37 — This Leader archetype only thinks and performs à la unthinkable thinking.

# 38 — This Leader archetype disrupts the boundaries of unthinkable thinking, always going progressively more beyond such boundaries.

# 39 — This Leader archetype transforms new problems and old problems into actionable breakthrough opportunities.

# 40 — In his / her case and exercising this type of leadership, this Leader archetype strongly and coherently insists on and applies three aspects: CIVILITY, CIVILITY, CIVILITY!

# 41 — Before chaos, he / she instills more and more chaos — of greater magnitude, scale and speed — to level off and outsmart the frame of reference targeted.

# 42 — This Leader archetype drives OPS with directness and / or indirectness, as well as with the loose/control hybridization mode.

# 43 — This Leader archetype shares of defined values as they get collegially upgraded for Life.

# 44 — This Leader archetype elicits conceptions of practiced futures to deal with and countermeasure way in advance.

# 45 — This Leader archetype fuses technology innovation with business strategy as a tool for competitive advantage.

# 46 — This Leader archetype conceives early and distinguishes it and exploits it strategic surprises attributable to competitors.

# 47 — This Leader archetype ascertains that there is not a single stone left unturned.

# 48 — This Leader archetype short-circuits to shortcut.

# 49 — This Leader archetype possesses innate ideas — in addition as those incubated by the crew — positioning himself / herself in the tabula rasa’s antipodes.

# 50 — This Leader archetype is determined to supporting his / her fellow crew members even beyond his own skin.

# 51 — This Leader archetype is more willing to openly share fact-and-figure information regarding their interests, constraints, and priorities as they have earned each other’s trust.

# 52 — This Leader archetype invests in trust building prior to, during, and after their commando operations (regardless of the business enterprise or not theater of operations).

# 53 — This Leader archetype does not simply leverage trust when it is present; he / she builds trust when is absent.

# 54 — This Leader archetype is a poker-faced strategic visionary raising the ante and raising the scale of the latter as he / she modulates the timing and “landing” of the calculated risks waged.

# 55 — This Leader archetype alleviates fears and builds trust.

# 56 — This Leader archetype builds so many “strategic surprises” in his mind lab way in advance — in eternity overriding the most bizarre dreamed-of (and practiced) futures with the foresight and far-sight perspectives — in a way utterly impossible to be caught off guard by so-called in-the-ground reality (that is, nothing more than partially controlled hallucinations).

# 57 — This Leader archetype demolishes all forms of mediocrity, especially lying and manipulating within his amorphous and versatile crew, enabling the rogue ruling of the omni-mode optimum.

# 58 — This Leader archetype communicates pointblank as he / she elicits the content with clarity, respect, cordially and, above of all, an upped sense of urgency. Treasures reasoned fury for competitors, adversaries, and industrial spies, as well as in transmutation of weaknesses into stern strategic advantages over his / her contrarians.

# 59 — While focusing on several specific matters to tackle and their rules of engagement, he / she never loses sites of the contexts targeted by the other member of his crew. This Leader archetype has the clearest mentality that everything is related to everything else.

# 60 — This Leader archetype thinks “big picture” and wholly to operate comprehensively and multifacetedlly to state the very minimum.

# 61— However the primordial leader and the emboldened sprits de corps across the board within his / her crew, he / she unambiguously honors, respects and institutional rewards the highest hierarchies, as well as those under his / her watch.

# 62 — He / she, as well as the entirety of the crew, thinks in already practiced futures to in-source his / her individual and collective mind(s) with zillion actionable options from the originated one to out-strategize adversaries and ascertain indisputable prevailing.

# 63 — This Leader archetype views as scientists reportedly tell us as the horses see in real life, so that this holistic view and systemic and systematic engagement in the theater of operations — tremendously propelled by fore-sighting — offers This Leader archetype a lucid second nature in dealing with globality and the elements of the system (embedded in his blurring and flowingly blurring context) from the amplest perspective of that prepared mind that not only is capturing the uniqueness, the subtleties, and interrelationships of the challenge to be resolve (on the doubles) as they are posed by the theater of operations.

# 64 — When an action is to happen is not that bad and when the minds, spirits, and souls of these leaders and co-leaders are not counting with the greatest and most updated competitive intelligence (and, sometimes, rampant intelligentsia), This Leader archetype, as per the medical maxim, engages into “first do no harm,” thereby awaiting for the soonest and best timing to besiege and conquer (WITH HONOR) the theater of operations.

# 65 — This Leader archetype does not have only a passion, but he / she has an extremely well passion that does not allow said person to lose composure, aim, an strategic blueprint to shock and awe, via overbearing number of angles, the adversary to be turned in defeat by the collective unleashing of energy unload on to them for the ultimate domination.

# 66 — This Leader archetype establishes a great human-to-‘computational power’ intelligence close-loop feedback via artificial intelligence to access to and swiftly operate on the numerical and narrative data received between the terrain sustained gains and the ultimate goal to be captured within maximum control.

# 67 — This Leader archetype secures so many Pyrrhic and ‘ignored flank’ victories to improve his / her abilities — and that of the crew — while bringing about a dramatic but yet subtle and decisive breakthrough, very much to his / her advantage and that of humankind.

# 68 — When the leader approaches any important mission, he / she enters the process with the goal of looking for areas in which strategic value can be created.

# 69 — This Leader archetype helps disputant crew members to reach harmony thoroughly, not dwelling on the past but improving the perspective of his persona and that of the crew toward the immediate future.

# 70 — This Leader archetype fails so recurrently that, that in the final analysis, he / she affluently prevails. This worships his mistakes as sacrosanct learning devices that he, in the treasured futures, wins easily, independently of precarious terrains.

# 71 — This Leader archetype is forever building up — via transparency, accountability and responsibility — trusting among his / her fellow co-leaders. In those critical missions, say of law enforcement, first responders and the military, the maximum on-site responsible one exercises a climate of distention and courtesy among his crew members. There is here a difficult balancing act — that is never a daring issue for the wise leader — is to offer support and friendliness without disrupting the limits between the professional life and personal one. Intimacy exchanges between the crew members of the same team will gravely compromise the integrity of the incumbents and their mission-critical responsibilities. The members incurred in such situation must be immediately relocated.

# 72 — This Leader archetype possesses clarity of thought and great depth and scope in contrarian’s judgment, as he / she avidly ponders above and beyond wholly.

# 73 — He / she grows mentally and intellectually in the midst of complexity, chaos, and anarchy, transforming the cited three factor in the tools to secure his triumph early.

# 74 — This Leader archetype becomes responsible for assuming costs, losses, liabilities, behaviors, as well as outcomes.

# 75 — This Leader archetype does not retaliate; he / she just prevails.

# 76 — This Leader archetype’s mentality is ruled by his / her own should-self facet and never by his / her want / self one. In doing so, This Leader archetype maximizes the long-term benefits.

# 77 — This Leader archetype is always encouraging and supporting legitimate justice seeking.

# 78 — This Leader archetype is much more of an asset than a hindrance in interacting with the members of his / her crew.

# 79 — This Leader archetype is both robust, resilient and carries on non-linearly.

# 80 — This Leader archetype is an over-communicator.

# 81 — This Leader archetype is the hidden persuader to the greatest causes that transforms the World from a tiny bit of an annoying place into a better place, though interesting and educational in extremis.

# 82 — This Leader archetype is more flexible, competent, industrious, diligent, trustworthy, rational, honest, fair, cooperative, and compassionate than his / her opponents.

# 83 — In succeeding, This Leader archetype does not denigrate his / her opponents. He / she treat adversaries with highest decorum.

# 84 — This Leader archetype’s radiant reasoning is analogically instituted.

# 85 — This Leader archetype uses the insider’s lens, but much more emphatically utilizes the outsider’s lens.

# 86 — This Leader archetype makes more with less.

# 87 — This Leader archetype always operates better, when in the “battlefield,” the theater of operations has many sub-systems in and beyond ‘fringe’ status.

# 88 — This Leader archetype is engaged in “real time” calibrating mode, quantitatively and qualitatively, the information, data, and arguments that you hear from them.

# 89 — This Leader archetype cross-checks everything in its entirety.

# 90 — This Leader archetype chooses and updates and upgrades his / her own appropriate measure of success.

# 91 — In his / her pondering and discerning processes, This Leader archetype emphasizes — to the self and crew member fellows — the need to understand the other side’s perspective in advance and in continuum.

# 92 — This Leader archetype discovers the hidden interests, priorities, constraints, patterns, and subtle ploys of the other side, allowing him / her to create strategic value more efficaciously.

# 93 — This Leader archetype finds ways to overcome not only the reasonable objections of others, but also their close-mindedness.

# 94 — This Leader archetype reserves consistency between their attempts and actions.

# 95 — This Leader archetype , in order to protect the self, must make a judicious and salient effort to anticipate and mitigate powerful effects from strategies enforced.

# 96 — In each situation, This Leader archetype provides his / her crew with strategies for seeing and uncovering more clearly the information that falls in your blind spot.

# 97 — This Leader archetype thinks through the decision rulings, constraints, strategies, resource pressures, and politics of the other side.

# 98 — For This Leader archetype , the other side information advantage is never in his / her blind spot.

# 99 — This Leader archetype ’s First Nature is to wholly trustworthy and never wholly trusting.

# 100 — This Leader archetype is afraid neither the future nor the past but make a mark on the moment.

# 101 — This Leader archetype resists the obvious to embrace the newness of ignored flanks.

# 102 — This Leader archetype does not look through the mirror but every window.

# 103 — This Leader archetype build bridges between failures and sustainable successes.

# 104 — This Leader archetype’s greatest action is to pause to engender cross-pollinated perspectives from pondering, discernment, and actionable reflections.

# 105 — The only stasis This Leader archetype knows is the order tendered by chaotic measures that institute and restore harmony.

# 106 — This Leader archetype is the host of his / her co-leaders (Hostmanship).

# 107 — This Leader archetype generates a lot of ideas and plans; looks for good ideas, not just his / her own but those of the crew.

# 108 — This Leader archetype never abandons the power of saying what he / she believes and believing and executing what he / she says.

# 109 — This Leader archetype operates based on that a good working relationship will work even better when all work on it together (esprit de corps).

# 110 — This Leader archetype knows, that in engaging in a major initiative, the first moments are apt to be the most lively and decisive.

# 111 — While co-leaders are occupied with training, This Leader archetype must set the tone for all of his / her consistency.

# 112 — This Leader archetype takes care of his / her co-leader and looks after him / her in detail.

# 113 — This Leader archetype listens to his / her co-leaders’ complaints, inspects their tools and equipment, and satisfies himself / herself that co-leaders do not lack anything.

# 114 — This Leader archetype demonstrates that takes his / her responsibilities seriously and devotes himself / herself completely to the co-leader, which in turn inspires the co-leader’s confidence.

# 115 — Before committing to any serious enterprise, This Leader archetype and respective co-leaders perform frequent “drill evolutions” exercises.

# 116— In dealing with real-life business undertakings and struggling with competitor, maneuvers, strategies and tactics exceptionally mastered by This Leader archetype knowing that the least hesitation could compromise the entire integrity of his / her crew and corresponding objectives and goals.

# 117 — This Leader archetype makes his / her co-leaders acquaint with tactical skills. This Leader archetype explains the THEORY to his / her co-leaders in a way that theory and practice become co-leader’s second nature.

# 118 — Under this type of Leadership good leaders, good cares, good organization, good instruction (theoretical and practical), and good discipline can provide good co-leaders regardless of the challenge they compete against.

# 119 — For This Leader archetype the bottomline is: The real objective of having a LEADERSHIP is to provide for desired relevant outcomes. For This Leader archetype preparation is not only based on the organization of the LEADERSHIP TEAM but the indispensability of said organization is, by far, much more all-encompassing and strategically decisive.

# 120 — This Leader archetype believes that secrecy, discipline, morale and competitive intelligence are instrumental to his / her many successes in business, management and organizational transformation.

# 121 — This Leader archetype knows that “quiet” historic times around the world offer some type of “acceptable” bureaucratic environment. This Leader archetype also knows that he / she must turn the environment fluidly “lean and mean,” especially when every facet of the world order is by each 24 hours disrupting every historic precedent known.

# 122 — This Leader archetype is aware of the strategy and of the damage that could result from a false sense of economizing the granularity of details pertaining to the depth and scope and nature of said strategy.

# 123 — This Leader archetype and Co-Leaders posses the controlling influence of tactics, formation, and of the drill evolution of own team but also of the competitor’s crew.

# 124 — This Leader archetype is strong, adroit, shrewd, skillfully adaptable, tough-minded and resilient, as well as morally and ethically indefatigable.

# 125 — This Leader archetype knows that not only speed assures its success, but order, cohesion, congruency, maneuvering, and the effective use of resources.

# 126 — In a delicate mission, this Leader archetype always requires discernment, intellect, and sound judgment.

# 127 — This Leader archetype is slow in deliberation and quick in execution.

# 128 — This Leader archetype marches rapidly and vigorously without any “but,” “if,” or “because.”

# 129 — This Leader archetype blends severity, justice, and mildness, thus rendering only a good effect.

# 130 — This Leader archetype is formed only through constant care and you must not depart from this policy.

# 131 — This Leader archetype, in a delicate mission, requires discernment, intellect, and sound judgment.

# 132 — This Leader archetype, as he / she operates, increasingly and proactively institutes all advantageous management tools (from all-knowledge fields) – duly compiled at unison – as if he / she were holding the handle of the actively pervasive (a) thinking mode and (b) execution.

# 133 — This Leader archetype is conscientious (not just into the so-called “attitude,” since attitude is only and solely a function of conscientious awareness) that knowledge is actionable organized information designated for targeting the capturing of goals, objectives, and results.

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Randomness Versus Pseudo-Ramdoness, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

Randomness Versus Pseudo-Randomness

Randomness.— (Randomness means lack of pattern or predictability in events. Randomness suggests a non-order or non-coherence in a sequence of symbols or steps, such that there is no intelligible pattern or combination, as a result of corporate manager’s perpetual MOST-RECURSIVE search for lucrative intangibles in omniverseral: (a) hidden quadrants and (b) ignored flanks and © forgotten angles, and (d) recondite spheres and (e) hermetic theater of operations and (e) unrealized orbits.

Pseudo-Randomness.— (Pseudo-Randomness means quasi-lacking of pattern or quasi-predictability in events. Pseudo-Randomness suggests a quasi-non-order or quasi-non-coherence in a sequence of symbols or steps, such that there is no intelligible pattern or combination, as a result of corporate manager’s perpetual MOST-RECURSIVE search for lucrative intangibles in omniverseral: (a) hidden quadrants and (b) ignored flanks and © forgotten angles, and (d) recondite spheres and (e) hermetic theater of operations and (e) unrealized orbits.

by — 3DPrint.com
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It’s always fun predicting the future. People do it all the time because it is entertaining to imagine a world that we or our children will one day have the chance to experience. We’ve seen fictitious movies do this from time to time since the beginning of film. There was the hoverboard in ‘Back to the Future’, the jet packs in ‘The Rocketeer’, teleportation in Star Trek, and the list goes on. Some of these inventions have already become a reality, while we are still awaiting the arrival of others.

Another Star Trek prediction, was that of the Replicator, which was used to basically 3D print objects, especially food. These have already begun to take shape in current times, in the form of 3D printers. MakerBot even calls their consumer level 3D printer the ‘Replicator’. Sure it may not work the exact same way, but its close enough.

Now, one video game development company, Sledgehammer Games, is trying to predict the future in their upcoming video game. We’re sure that most of you are well aware of the Call of Duty video game series. ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’ is currently scheduled for release this coming Novembmer. In the game, which takes place in the year 2054, Sledgehammer Games will try their hands at predicting the future themselves. One of the more notable futuristic ideas in the game, is that of the 3D-Printer Rifle.

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White Swan Practical Tenets To Secure Fiscally-Sound and Guarantee Successfully Ever-Growing Corporations through Mr. Andres Agostini’s Transformative and Integrative Risk Management proprietary methodology.

By Management Incumbents doing:

(1) Picture mentally, radiantly.

(2) Draw outside the canvas.

(3) Color outside the vectors.

(4) Sketch sinuously.

(5) Far-sight beyond the mind’s intangible exoskeleton.

(6) Abduct indiscernible falsifiable convictions.

(7) Reverse-engineering a gene and a bacterium or, better yet, the lucrative genome.

(8) Guillotine the over-weighted status quo.

(9) Learn how to add up — in your own brainy mind — colors, dimensions, aromas, encryptions, enigmas, phenomena, geometrical and amorphous in-motion shapes, methods, techniques, codes, written lines, symbols, contexts, locus, venues, semantic terms, magnitudes, longitudes, processes, tweets, “…knowledge-laden…” hunches and omniscient bliss, so forth.

(10) Project your wisdom’s wealth onto communities of timeless-connected wikis.

(11) Cryogenize the infamous illiterate by own choice and reincarnate ASAP (multiverse teleporting out of a warped / wormed passage) Da Vinci, Bacon, Newton, Goethe, Bonaparte, Edison, Franklyn, Churchill, Einstein, and Feynman.

(12) Organize relationships into voluntary associations that are mutually beneficial and accountable for contributing productively to the surrounding community.

(13) Practice the central rule of good strategy, which is to know and remain true to your core business and invest for leadership and R&D+Innovation.

(14) Kaisen, SixSigma, Lean, LeanSigma, “…Reliability Engineer…” (the latter as solely conceived and developed by Procter & Gamble and Los Alamos National Laboratories) it all unthinkably and thoroughly by recombinant, a là Einstein Gedanke-motorized judgment (that is to say: Einsteinian Gedanke [“…thought experiments…”].

(15) Provide a road-map and blueprint for drastically compressing (‘crashing’) the time’s ‘reticules’ it will take you to get on the top of your tenure, nonetheless of your organizational level.

(16) With the required knowledge and relationships embedded in organizations, create support for, and carry out transformational initiatives.

(17) Offer a tested pathway for addressing the linked challenges of personal transition and organizational transformation that confront leaders in the first few months in a new tenure.

(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.

(20) Mobilize and align the overriding energy of many others in your organization, knowing that the “…wisdom of crowds…” is upfront and outright rubbish.

(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 “… Skunkworks …” and “…Re-Imagineer…” it all, holding in your mind the motion-pictured image that, regardless of the relevance of “…inputs…” and “…outputs,…”, entails that the highest relevance is within the sophistication within the THROUGHPUT.

(24) Don’t copy Nature and Biology, don’t even copy Universe. Just copy the Omniverse.

(25) Correlate everything else with the ignored and unthinkable ‘else’ of everything else, forever.

(26) Combine the practical and technological with the mysterious and meaningful.

(27) Pencil your map.

(28) Brush your road-map.

(29) Scratch your blueprint.

(30) Conceive of, develop and share unthinkable lessons learned.

(31) Facilitate a heterogeneous group — in the midst of appalling interpersonal chemistry — towards the accomplishment of a common goal.

(32) Learn complex new skills and new ways to make corporate miracles crystallize.

(33) Typo the cartoon.

(34) Keystroke the drawing.

(35) Acculturate your brain to operate executions from the applied omniscience via the lenses and springs of systems methodology.

(36) Manage RISKS and BENEFITS in series and never in parallel.

(37) Remove accident causes prior to a loss, knowing that an accident is never a random stroke of fate, but an utter and thus purported instrument of ignorance of supine ignorance.

(38) Convert your viewpoint to a systems approach.

(39) Enable full-orbed and balanced stability of your thinkables and unthinkables.

(40) Attempt to know, early on, the end from the beginning.

(41) Identify driving forces to make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and profit from change.

(42) Declare the past, recover yesterday, analyze the present, enjoy today, and reinvent tomorrow (today’s ensuing 24 hours).

(43) Build your own FUTURE transcending your past.

(44) Contort your mindful, mindless executions — and those in the midst of ‘mindful’ and ‘mindless’ executions —, solely out of this world, and solely out of this universe, and solely out of this reality, but not just for the inexpensive, tangential, impious sake of intellectual stunts, but only so that the ‘life’ has not unfruitful ‘afterlife’ — so-called —, and also so that the ‘world’ has no ‘afterworld’ (as well as, in congruence with the present work, ‘after-universe’ and even ‘after-verse.’) — so-called —. Aren’t afterlife and afterworld dis-intermediated anyway? Now, you, and merely you, proceed and transcend yourself, by yourself and for yourself.

(45) If you really want to make an operational difference in your professional theater of operations, go and get a full immersion in the fringe. Right in there, under that tense and pressing dynamics, you’ll have the vantage flux of the mirage.

(46) Tantalize your tangential pre-cognition and cognition into ever-‬metamorphosing ‭your attentive and contemplative trans-meditation Zen.

(47) ‭De-realize, thus, de-focus from that taken-for-granted realities of the folly and the faulty, literally!

(48) ‬Mostly in-source your mind with long-unknown virtualities.

(49) Assure that there are not un-searched areas of risk, benefit and sustainable opportunity.

(59) Acculturate yourself and those in your crew and in the orbit of incumbent stakeholders with most actionable, applied omniscience. Remember culture without science and technology is beyond blind.

(60) Cultivate the highest manifestations of human intelligence: vision, discipline, passion and conscience.

(61) Achieve next-level breakthrough in productivity, innovation and leadership in the marketplace and society.

(62) Develop the internal power and moral authority to break out of those problems to become a significant force in solving them.

(63) Use your voice and deeds to superbly serve your organization’s purposes, functions and stakeholders.

(64) Magnify your current gifts, talents, skills and dexterities.

(65) Take a prior learning for Life, apply it to a new situation, learn from practical experience, and apply the new learning.

(66) Pervasively reason from effect to cause and from cause to effect.

(67) Envision shrewd yet calculated risks, from start to end, to turn downsides into upsides.

(68) “…Exponentialize the rushed and marshaled progression of your own all-rounded, perennial learning curves on the doubles, chiefly those directly concerned with engaging your diverse skills, dexterities, and talents to overcome — through fluid execution by mind preparedness — your theater of operations because of and by the increasingly threatening surroundings. Otherwise, the onset Technological Revolutions (compounded in a pervasive composite), as explained in «Futuretonium and Futureketing and White Swan», will give you the hardest time to you and yours. There is realistic and austere hope if we work the hardest and in the most scientific mode.

(69) Figure out exactly which genes and neurons coalesce to make synapses with.

(70) Wire up synapses and genes the soonest.

(71) Ask now more sophisticated questions to marshal upon.

(72) Don’t juts copy Nature but focus on copying Biology, Nature and the Omniverse.

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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Added drug allows rapamycin to slow aging without risking diabetes http://www.kurzweilai.net/added-drug-allows-rapamycin-to-slow-aging-without-risking-diabetes

‘Thermal Touch’ will turn any surface into an AR touch screen http://www.kurzweilai.net/thermal-touch-will-turn-any-surface-into-an-ar-touch-screen

Would you eat ‘eco-friendly’ meat created from stem cells? http://www.kurzweilai.net/would-you-eat-eco-friendly-meat-created-from-stem-cells

DARPA Is Using Oculus Rift To Build The ‘Mega Man Battle Network’ Of Cyberwarfare http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/23/darpa-is-using-oculus-rift-to-build-the-mega-man-battle-network-of-cyberwarfare/

Google engineers open gates to Quantum Computing Playground http://phys.org/news/2014-05-google-gates-quantum-playground.html

The Push is On for In Vitro Meat from Stem Cells http://www.21stcentech.com/push-vitro-meat-stem-cells/

“The nation is not as safe as it could and should be” http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/dhs/

Bacteria species part of Curiosity baggage on Mars http://m.phys.org/news/2014-05-bacteria-species-curiosity-baggage-mars.html

Minecraft in space: why Nasa is embracing Kerbal Space Program http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/22/kerbal-space-program-why-nasa-minecraft

Must We Worry About Artificial Intelligence? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nigel-barber/must-we-worry-about-artif_b_5359597.html

14 Emerging Health Technologies That Will Change The World http://www.businessinsider.com/14-emerging-health-technologies-2014-4

Nature inspires drones of the future http://phys.org/news/2014-05-nature-drones-future.html

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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It’s Robots You Don’t See That Will Dominate Our Future http://www.21stcentech.com/robots-dominate-future/

The Future of Quantum Computing Could Depend on This Tricky Qubit http://www.wired.com/2014/05/quantum-computing-topological-qubit/

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse, Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests http://www.space.com/25100-multiverse-cosmic-inflation-gravitational-waves.html

When You Buy Your Next Electric Vehicle It May Sport a Dual Carbon Battery http://www.21stcentech.com/buy-electric-vehicle-sport-dual-carbon-battery/

Dr. Henry Kissinger PhD. to journalist Charlie Rose, “…Out of 22 centuries, China has ruled during 20 centuries (2,000 years) …”

Scientists try 3-D printer to build human heart https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/scientists-try-3-d-printer-132621349.html

Lab-on-a-chip Detects Cancer Early and On the Cheap http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7621/Lab-on-a-chip-Detects-Cancer-Early-and-On-the-Cheap.aspx

Aerospace and engineering giant Lockheed Martin is on the cusp of closing a deal with the US government to create two new missile-warning satellites. http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7622/Lockheed-Looks-to-Speed-Up-Satellite-Development-with-AM.aspx

IBM acquired the artificial intelligence company Cognea for its Watson system http://english.netmassimo.com/2014/05/22/ibm-acquired-the-artificial-intelligence-company-cognea-for-its-watson-system/

The End of the Swiss Bank Account as We Know It http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-05-20/the-end-of-the-swiss-bank-account-as-we-know-it

How Credit Suisse got a stiffer penalty than UBS http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/20/us-creditsuisse-tax-fine-insight-idUSBREA4J05J20140520

Big fine ‘won’t do much damage’: Credit Suisse CEO http://www.cnbc.com/id/101696645

US senators say more needs to be done after Credit Suisse conviction http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/20/credit-suisse-indictment-questioned-us-senators

DHS Reports that a U.S. Utility System was Hacked http://tdworld.com/smart-grid/dhs-reports-us-utility-system-was-hacked

George Soros sells all shares of Citigroup, Bank of America and JP Morgan. Is this a sign of trouble ahead for the banking and insurance industry? http://intellihub.com/george-soros-sells-shares-citigroup-bank-america-jp-morgan/

DHS Secretary Stresses Importance of Preparedness Grant Programs http://www.hstoday.us/single-article/dhs-secretary-stresses-importance-of-preparedness-grant-programs/47e6fa51102c545e10bcfca60b16175e.html#.U35KN4Zp_vo.linkedin

The Lifeboat Foundation Worldwide Ambassador Mr. Andres Agostini’s own White Swan Update, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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Rice Isn’t The Only Staple At Risk from Rising Temperatures http://www.21stcentech.com/rice-staple-risk-rising-temperatures/

PERES Tells You if the Meat You are About to Eat is OK http://www.21stcentech.com/gizmos-gadgets-peres-tells-meat-eat/

Physicist suggests some types of wormholes may stay open long enough to send a photon through http://phys.org/news/2014-05-physicist-wormholes-photon.html

Scientists make deep-brain implants possible through wireless charging http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/19/wireless-implant-charging/

Professors’ super waterproof surfaces cause water to bounce like a ball http://news.byu.edu/archive14-may-superhydrophobic.aspx

What Can Smart Machines Still Learn From People http://www.33rdsquare.com/2014/05/what-can-smart-machines-still-learn.html

Neuroscience’s Grand Question http://neurosciencenews.com/theoretical-neural-model-regulation-1038/

Four Ways of Looking at Twitter http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/02/visualizing-twitter/

Text-mining offers clues to success http://www.nature.com/news/text-mining-offers-clues-to-success-1.15263

Predictive Analytics is Tailor-Made for M&A, says Deloitte FAS CEO David Williams http://www.themiddlemarket.com/news/financial_sponsors/5-myths-of-ma-data-analytics-249718-1.html?utm_content=buffer69c4f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Preparing For The Singularity — Does The Future Have A Future? http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/7605/Preparing-For-The-Singularity–Does-The-Future-Have-A-Future.aspx

The 5 Works You Need to Stop Calling ‘Dystopian’ http://www.wired.com/2014/05/5-non-dystopian-works/

Facebook Will Soon Detect What You’re Watching and Listening To http://www.wired.com/2014/05/facebook-will-soon-detect-what-youre-watching-and-listening-to/

The 20 Deadliest U.S. Cities for Pedestrians http://www.wired.com/2014/05/most-dangerous-pedestrian-cities/

Why Google Must Now Also Rule the Physical World http://www.wired.com/2014/05/why-google-needs-to-master-the-physical-world-even-more-than-the-internet/

Darkcoin, the Shadowy Cousin of Bitcoin, Is Booming http://www.wired.com/2014/05/darkcoin-is-booming/

CIA: In Future, We Won’t Derail Major International Public Health Efforts. http://www.wired.com/2014/05/cia-polio-promise/

World’s smallest, fastest nanomotor http://www.kurzweilai.net/worlds-smallest-fastest-nanomotor

Bioethics Commission releases volume one response to the BRAIN Initiative http://www.kurzweilai.net/bioethics-commission-releases-volume-one-response-to-the-brain-initiative

The biomechanics behind amazing ant strength http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-biomechanics-behind-amazing-ant-strength

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

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A new way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-new-way-to-beam-power-to-medical-chips-deep-inside-the-body

Glasses-free 3D projector http://www.kurzweilai.net/glasses-free-3d-projector

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-discover-how-to-turn-light-into-matter-after-80-year-quest

The 5 most interesting wearables on Kickstarter right now http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/13/the-5-most-interesting-wearables-on-kickstarter-right-now/

Scientists discover how to turn light into matter after 80-year quest http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_16-5-2014-15-32-44

What Our Recent Obsession With Mindfulness Really Means http://www.fastcompany.com/3030601/the-future-of-work/what-our-recent-obsession-with-mindfulness-really-means

Data Point: The New Customer Service Pro: Your Gadget http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/06/data-point-the-new-customer-service-pro-your-gadget/

TransProse algorithm turns novels into music http://phys.org/news/2014-05-transprose-algorithm-novels-music.html

Report says Internet of Things will thrive by 2025
http://wraltechwire.com/good-and-bad-report-says-internet-of-things-will-thrive-by-2025/13655206/#rsJSMiZGKcBOptPY.99

Beyond Silicon – Nanowires and Next Generation Devices http://www.21stcentech.com/silicon-nanowires-generation-devices/

When it Comes to Agriculture it is Nighttime Temperatures That Have Farmers Worried http://www.21stcentech.com/agriculture-nighttime-temperatures-farmers-worried/

Martian Rover Didn’t Come Alone http://www.21stcentech.com/martian-rover/

Does brain structure determine your political views? http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-27437799

Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Sticks 700 Pounds to a Wall http://singularityhub.com/2014/05/20/gecko-inspired-adhesive-sticks-700-pounds-to-a-wall/

Your Tastebuds Could Provide Clues On How Long You’ll Live, Study Says http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/20/taste-buds-longevity-_n_5358227.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000043&ir=Science

Vinod Khosla has 3 predictions for the future of health. We’ve got 1 more http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/20/vinod-khosla-has-3-predictions-for-the-future-of-health-weve-got-1-more/

Engineers invent a way to beam power to medical chips deep inside the body http://phys.org/news/2014-05-power-medical-chips-deep-body.html

Rejuvenation Biotechnology Conference 2014 http://sens.org/outreach/conferences/rejuvenation-biotechnology-conference-2014

New technique allows scientists to monitor the entire nervous system of a small worm. http://neurosciencenews.com/3d-imaging-neurons-neuroimaging-1036/

ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra, were launched in the last century, and are still delivering world-class science. http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Technology/ESA_s_new_X-ray_optics_for_observing_the_hot_Universe

Wildfires worse due to global warming, studies say http://phys.org/news/2014-05-wildfires-worse-due-global.html

Harvard researchers find protein that could reverse the aging process http://www.gizmag.com/gdf11-protein-aging-mice-harvard/31929/

Chinese military officials charged with stealing US data as tensions escalate http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/19/us-chinese-military-officials-cyber-espionage?CMP=twt_gu

Elon Musk Says SpaceX Making ‘Progress’ Toward Mars Colony http://www.space.com/25934-elon-musk-mars-colony-spacex-rockets.html

Chinese Hackers Show Humans Are Weakest Security Link http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-20/chinese-hackers-show-humans-are-weakest-security-link.html

Renewable Energy Study Shows That Benefits Outweigh Costs In U.S. https://exploreb2b.com/articles/renewable-energy-study-shows-that-benefits-outweigh-costs-in-us

Singapore’s Rich Tapped by China Developers: Asean Credit http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-19/singapore-s-rich-tapped-by-china-developers-asean-credit.html

Cybercriminals are eyeing these 5 targets in 2014 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cybercriminals-are-eyeing-these-5-targets-in-2014-1.2475721

Hacker Trends 2014: A frightening report http://www.mweb.co.za/TechnoZone/ViewArticle/tabid/3432/Article/11391/Hacker-Trends-2014-A-frightening-report.aspx#.U3VosB-e4BA.twitter

Get the Cisco 2014 Annual Security Report http://www.cisco.com/web/offers/lp/2014-annual-security-report/index.html?POSITION=social+media+share&COUNTRY_SITE=us&CAMPAIGN=asr2014&CREATIVE=figure+2&REFERRING_SITE=twitter

CyberSecurity Trends for 2014 at http://www.cbh.com/cybersecurity-trends-for-2014/

How to create high-speed 3D movies of entire worm brains http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-create-high-speed-3d-movies-of-entire-worm-brains

An ultra-sensitive chip for early cancer detection http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-chip-for-early-cancer-detection

Nanowire-bridging transistors open way to next-generation electronics http://www.kurzweilai.net/nanowire-bridging-transistors-open-way-to-next-generation-electronics

Mice with MS-like condition walk again after neural stem-cell treatment http://www.kurzweilai.net/mice-with-ms-like-condition-walk-again-after-neural-stem-cell-treatment

Cars could drive themselves sooner than expected after European push http://news.yahoo.com/cars-could-drive-themselves-sooner-expected-european-push-113959388–finance.html

New ultra-sensitive nano-chip capable of early cancer detection http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/healthcare/new-ultra-sensitive-nano-chip-capable-of-early-cancer-detection/articleshow/35334092.cms

GaitTrack App on Smartphone Assesses User’s Health http://www.21stcentech.com/gizmos-gadgets-gaittrack-app-smartphone-assesses-users-health/

Global warming will harm sovereign creditworthiness around the world this century — http://thedailybell.com/news-analysis/35310/Desperation-of-the-Elites-SP-Declares-Climate-Change-a-Mega-Trend/#sthash.Qe66KFbD.dpuf

Do We Know The Cost of Dealing or Not Dealing with Climate Change? http://www.21stcentech.com/cost-dealing-dealing-climate-change/

Five brain challenges we can overcome in the next decade http://theconversation.com/five-brain-challenges-we-can-overcome-in-the-next-decade-25975

Physics ― Matter will be created from light within a year, claim scientists http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/may/18/matter-light-photons-electrons-positrons?CMP=fb_gu

Foreign Affairs ― Strategic Intelligence Assessment for Ukraine – Setting the Stage https://www.redanalysis.org/2014/05/19/strategic-intelligence-assessment-for-ukraine-setting-the-stage/

Software Development Process and Software Engineering ― Bottom-Up Manufacturing of Nanowires on Silicon Expands Its Capabilities http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/bottomup-manufacturing-of-nanowires-on-silicon-expands-its-capabilities

A.I., Automation and Robotics ― Will Google’s Self-driving Cars Be Limited by “Map Anxiety”? http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/will-consumers-interested-in-googles-selfdriving-cars-suffer-from-map-anxiety

Industrial Robots ― Need a hand (or an arm, or a leg)? Hi-tech app controlled and 3D printed prosthetics shown off http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2627412/Need-hand-arm-leg-Hi-tech-app-controlled-3D-printed-prosthetics-shown-off.html

Robotics ― Robot expert planning to turn Hong Kong into android city http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1513567/robotics-guru-david-hanson-hopes-turn-city-hive-android

CyberSecurity ― More than 90 people nabbed in global hacker crackdown http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/19/justice/us-global-hacker-crackdown/

White Swan Update by Andres Agostini, Countermeassuring Every Unthinkable Black Swan, at https://lifeboat.com/blog/2014/04/white-swan

- @ClubOfINFO — A recent massive leap forward in synthetic life, recently published in Nature, is the expansion of the alphabet of DNA to six letters rather than four, by synthetic biologists – the technicians to whom we entrust the great task of reprogramming life itself.

Breakthroughs such as the above are quite certain to alert more and more people to synthetic biology and its possible consequences. For as long as such breathtaking discoveries continue to be made in this area of research, it is inevitable that latent fears among society will come closer to the surface.
There is likely to be a profound distrust, whether inculcated by religion or by science fiction horror movies and literature, towards the concept of tampering with nature and especially the very building blocks that brought us into existence. While the people with this profoundly negative reaction are not sure what they are warning against, they are motivated by a vitalistic need to believe that the perversion of life is going to provoke hidden – almost divine – repercussions.
Is it really true that no-one should be meddling with something so fundamental to life, or is synthetic biology the science of our century, our civilization’s key to unlimited energy? Whatever the answer may be, the science enabling it already exists and is growing rapidly, and history seems to show that any technology once invented is impossible to contain.
The fact that synthetic base pairs now exist should confirm, for many, the beginning of humanity’s re-engineering of the structures of life itself. As it is unprecedented in our evolution, we are presented with an ethical question and all points of view should be considered, no matter how radical or conservative they are.
It is hard to find a strong display of enthusiasm for the use of synthetic biology as a solution to the world’s greatest problems, even among the transhumanists and techno-progressives. Most of the popular enthusiasm for technological change, particularly the radical improvement of life and the environment through technology, focuses on artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and things like solar cells as the solution to energy crises. There is not much of a popular case being made for synthetic biology as one of the keys to civilization’s salvation and humanity’s long-term survival, but there should be. The first obstacles to such a case are most likely fear and prejudice.
Even among those theorists who offer the most compelling arguments about self-sustaining technologies and their potential to democratize and change the means of production, enthusiasm for synthetic biology is purposely withheld. Yannick Rumpala’s paper Additive manufacturing as global remanufacturing of politics has a title that speaks for itself. It sees in 3d printing the potential to exorcize some of the most oppressive structural inevitabilities of the current division of labor, transforming economics and politics to be more network-based and egalitarian. When I suggested to Yannick that synthetic organisms – the most obvious choices of technology that will be able to self-replicate and become universally available at every stratum of global society – he was reserved. This was half due to not having reflected on biotechnology’s democratic possibilities, and half due to a principled rejection of “artificial environments”.
Should synthetic biology make people nervous rather than excited, and should be it be rejected as controversial and potentially dangerous rather than embraced as a potentially world-changing and highly democratic technology? The second tendency that results in a rejection of synthetic biology by those who normally go about endorsing technology as the catalyst for social change is the tendency to point to a very specific threat – a humanity-threatening virus.
This second rejection of synthetic biology is easier to respond to than the first, because it is very specific. In fact, the threat is discussed in sufficient depth by synthetic biology’s own leading scientist himself, J. Craig Venter, in his 2013 book Life at the Speed of Light. In anticipation of a viral threat, “bio-terror” is considered the top danger by the US government, but “bio-error” is seen by Venter as an even bigger danger. There is a possibility of individual accidents using synthetic biology, analogous to medical accidents from overdoses. It could involve a virus introduced as a treatment for cancer becoming dangerous (like in the movie, I Am Legend). This is especially possible, if the technology becomes ubiquitous and “DIY”, with individuals customizing their own treatments by synthesizing viruses. However, many household materials and technologies already present the same level of threat to lone individuals, so there is no reason to focus on the popular use of synthetic biology as an extraordinary threat.
A larger scale disaster is far easier to prevent than the death or illness of a lone individual from his own synthetic biology accident. A bio-terror attack, Venter writes, would be extremely difficult using synthetic biology. Synthetic biology is going to give medical professionals the ability to quickly sequence genomes and transmit them on the airwaves to synthesize new vaccines. This would only make it easier to fight against bioterror or a potentially apocalyptic virus, as the threat could be found and sequenced by computers, with the cure being synthesized and introduced almost immediately. Despite this fact that synthetic biology provides the best defense against its own possible threats, it is still important to be balanced in our recognition of the benefits and threats of this technology.
More dangerous than a virus breaking loose from the lab, Venter recognizes the potential for the abuse of synthetic biology by hostile governments. Of most concern, custom viruses could be used as assassins against individuals, whether by governments or conspirators. A cold could be created to have no effect on most people, but be deadly to the President of the United States. All you would need to do is get access to a sample of the President’s genetic material, sequence it, and develop a corresponding virus that exploits a unique weakness in his/her DNA. This danger in particular seems to be more worthy of concern than an apocalyptic virus or devastating bioterrorist attack striking the whole of humanity.
The ethical burden on those who work with synthetic life, as Venter takes from a US government bioethics study, requires “a balance between the pessimistic view of these efforts as yet another example of hubris and the optimistic view of their being tantamount to “human progress” ”. Synthetic biologists must be “good stewards”, and must “move genomic research forward with caution, armed with insights from value traditions with respect to the proper purposes and uses of knowledge.”
However, there is also an undeniable reason to embrace synthetic biology as a solution to many of the world’s most urgent problems. J. Craig Venter’s own words confirm that synthetic life deserves to be included in Yannick Rumpala’s analysis, as a democratic technology that can transform global politics and economics and counter disparity in the world:

“Creating life at the speed of light is part of a new industrial revolution that will see manufacturing shift away from the centralized factories of the past to a distributed, domestic manufacturing future, thanks to 3-d printers.”

There may be a terrible threat from synthetic biology, but it will not necessarily be bio-error or bio-terror. The abuse could come from none other than a very familiar leviathan that has already violated the trust of its citizens before: the supposedly incorruptible United States government. Already, there is an interest in sequencing everyone’s genomes and placing them on a massive database, ostensibly for medical purposes. One cannot help but connect this with the US government’s fascination with tracking and monitoring its own citizens. If the ability to customize a virus to target an individual is true, the killer state will almost certainly maintain the military option of synthetic biology on the table – a possible way of carrying out “targeted killings” around the world in a more sophisticated and secretive manner than ever before.
The threats of synthetic biology are elusive and verge on being conspiracy theories or overused movie plots, but the magnificent potential of synthetic biology to eliminate inequality and suffering in the world is clear and present. In fact, the greatest bio-disaster in the history of the world may be humanity’s reluctance to remanufacture life in order to make more efficient use of the world’s declining natural resources. At the same time, the belief that ubiquitous synthetic biology will threaten life is secondary and distracting, as the true responsibility for unjustly threatening life is likely to always be with the state.

By Harry J. Bentham — More articles by Harry J. Bentham

 Originally published on 13 May 2014 at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)

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