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FEBRUARY 08/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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MITRE-Harvard nanocomputer may point the way to future computer miniaturization
http://www.kurzweilai.net/mitre-harvard-nanocomputer-may-point-the-way-to-future-computer-miniaturization

New form of graphene allows electrons to behave like photons
http://www.kurzweilai.net/new-form-of-graphene-allows-electrons-to-behave-like-photons

The first flexible, transparent, and conductive material
http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-first-flexible-transparent-and-conductive-material

Adidas Says Under Armour Infringed Its Wearable-Tech Patents
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-05/adidas-says-under-armour-infringed-its-wearable-tech-patents

The Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2013
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/2013-sciviz-winners/

How To Keep Museums Alive In The Age Of Minecraft
http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026074/how-to-keep-museums-alive-in-the-age-of-minecraft

Disrupting Death: These Customized Tombstones Let You Take Your Colorful Personality To The Grave
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025033/disrupting-death-these-customized-tombstones-let-you-take-your-colorful-personality-to-the-g

SolarCoin cryptocurrency pays you to go green
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25010-solarcoin-cryptocurrency-pays-you-to-go-green.html#.UvQTboXSmHc

Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease

Bio-Hackers Pore Through A Child’s DNA For The Source of A Mysterious Disease

Man With 3-D Printer Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer That Prints 3-D Printer
http://thelapine.ca/man-with-3-d-printer-prints-3-d-printer-that-prints-3-d-printer-that-prints-3-d-printer/

The death of the statistician

DSC Webinar Series: Data Contributions to a Conversational AI Platform

Ford’s data scientist: Keep all the data and sort it out later
http://gigaom.com/2014/02/06/fords-data-scientist-keep-all-the-data-and-sort-it-out-later/

How I came to love big data (or at least acknowledge its existence)
http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3315-how-i-came-to-love-big-data-or-at-least-acknowledge-its-existence

IBM opens access to SaaS portfolio to help African Universities with next-generation IT skills
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/43122.wss

World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad

World’s “least corrupt” nations fail to police bribery abroad

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF)
http://www.bt.com.au/help/anti-money-laundering-and-counter-terrorism-financing.asp

3D Printing Central to Future Military Strategy
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7074/3D-Printing-Central-to-Future-Military-Strategy.aspx

Elio Motors and the Three Wheeled Car — A Moonshot Project
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7093/Elio-Motors-and-the-Three-Wheeled-Car–A-Moonshot-Project.aspx

When will 3D Printing Reach a Mass Consumer Audience?
http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/7080/When-will-3D-Printing-Reach-a-Mass-Consumer-Audience.aspx

7 Steps to an Awesome Technical Presentation (Part 1 of 4)
http://www.engineering.com/Jobs/JobArticles/ArticleID/7068/7-Steps-to-an-Awesome-Technical-Presentation-Part-1-of-4.aspx

Top 10 STEM Puns
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7075/Top-10-STEM-Puns.aspx

Dude, Where’s My Hydrogen Car?
http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/7070/Dude-Wheres-My-Hydrogen-Car.aspx

New Farm Bill Provides Long-Overdue Eligibility for Renewable Chemicals
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/new-farm-bill-provides-long-overdue-eligibility-renewable-chemicals

Legislation Introduced To Communicate Prescription Changes to Patients & Physicians
http://www.bio.org/media/press-release/legislation-introduced-communicate-prescription-changes-patients-physicians

Bioscience Economic Development
http://www.bio.org/articles/bioscience-economic-development

First graphene radio broadcast is a wireless wonder
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24976-first-graphene-radio-broadcast-is-a-wireless-wonder.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news

An nanoscale electrical switch for magnetism
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34222.php

How to Make a Better Invisibility Cloak—With Lasers
http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/materials/how-to-make-a-better-invisibility-cloakwith-lasers

Can Graphene Enable Thermal Transistors?
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/materials/can-graphene-enable-thermal-transistors?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrumSemiconductors+%28IEEE+Spectrum%3A+Semiconductors%29

A new twist to sodium ion battery technology
http://www.materialstoday.com/energy/news/a-new-twist-to-sodium-ion-battery-technology/

New “Photodetector” Nanotechnology Allows Photos in Near Darkness
http://www.azonano.com/news.aspx?newsID=29284

Self-aligning DNA wires have been constructed for nanoelectronics
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/self-aligning-dna-wires-have-been-constructed-nanoelectronics

Nanocatalyst helps a greenhouse gas turn over a new leaf
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34230.php

IBM claims to make “first fully functioning” graphene IC

IBM claims to make “first fully functioning” graphene IC

Quantum dots provide complete control of photons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/quantum-dots-provide-complete-control-photons

Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology_news/newsid=34226.php#ixzz2sark76Sf

Rice lab clocks “hot” electrons
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2014/01/rice-lab-clocks-%E2%80%9Chot%E2%80%9D-electrons

Arianespace Successfully Delivers Its 250th Launch
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/02/06/arianespace-successfully-delivers-its-250th-launch/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

From Occupy to Climate Justice
http://www.thenation.com/article/178242/occupy-climate-justice?page=0,1

Chinese Factories Are Ordered to Release Data on Real-Time Emissions Levels
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-02-06/chinese-factories-ordered-to-release-data-on-real-time-emissions-levels

When Will Genomics Cure Cancer?
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/01/when-will-genomics-cure-cancer/355739/

Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/visitors-to-sochi-olympics-will-be-instantly-hacked-201318818.html

FAO Food Price Index falls despite climbing dairy prices
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/213481/icode/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=FAOnews&utm_content=gk

Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install

Tapstream Is Making Mobile Ads Smarter With “Deferred Deep Links,” A Way To Point Users To App Landing Pages After They Install

23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics
http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/magazine/15-12/ff_genomics?currentPage=all

20 unpronounceable tech brands — and how to say them
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/403502/20-unpronounceable-tech-brands-and-how-say-them

Can Twitter’s Big Data Influence The Music Business?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobbyowsinski/2014/02/06/can-twitters-big-data-influence-the-music-business/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Venture capital’s stunning lack of female decision-makers
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2014/02/06/venture-capitals-stunning-lack-of-female-decision-makers/?utm_content=bufferfddfe&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Artificial intelligence: the companies behind Britain’s ‘smart’ revolution
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10610734/Artificial-intelligence-the-companies-behind-Britains-smart-revolution.html

As artificial intelligence grows, so do ethical concerns
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/article/As-artificial-intelligence-grows-so-do-ethical-5194466.php

Computing with silicon neurons: Scientists use artificial nerve cells to classify different types of data
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128094539.htm

‘Friendly’ robots could allow for more realistic human-android relationships
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140206082401.htm

6 Exponential Technologies of Tomorrow
http://www.wfs.org/content/6-exponential-technologies-tomorrow

Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/20/anti-ageing-human-trials

U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another

U.S. Agencies Take Significant Step Toward Wirelessly Connecting Vehicles To One Another

New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run

New Stratasys 3D Printer Makes Multi-Material, Full Color Parts in a Single Run

Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?

Do You Trust Internet-Connected Appliances Enough To Let Them Run Your Home?

Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each

Illumina Claims New Sequencer Transcribes 18,000 Genomes per Year at $1,000 Each

Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies

Simple Method for Creating Stem Cells Promises Cheaper, Faster Therapies

Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual

Google’s AI Acquisition Blurs Lines Between Futuristic Visions and Business-as-Usual

Rejections for Sandy Grants Are Questioned
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579365431674359994?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303496804579365431674359994.html&mod=e2tw

New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant

New Inexpensive Skin Test in Development to Diagnose Malaria in an Instant

uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control

uArm, A Mini Robotic Arm You Can Assemble and Control


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QUOTATION(S): “…It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring…” AND “…Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion…”

CITATION(S): “…HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS].…COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS…”

BOOK(S): Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 by Michio Kaku. ISBN-13: 978–0307473332

Regards,

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

S U C C E S S

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

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FEBRUARY 07/2014 LIST OF UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC
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The Ryno Microcycle is a Sci-Fi Inspired Single Wheeler
http://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/7034/The-Ryno-Microcycle-is-a-Sci-Fi-Inspired-Single-Wheeler.aspx

Rigged rules mean economic growth increasingly “winner takes all” for rich elites all over world
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2014-01-20/rigged-rules-mean-economic-growth-increasingly-winner-takes-all-for-rich-elites

Economist Debates: Democracy economist.com
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/196

Behavioral Economics Gives The Advertising Industry A Nudge In The Right Direction
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnowrid/2014/02/05/behavioural-economics-gives-the-advertising-industry-a-nudge-in-the-right-direction/

Penn State Students Seek Crowdfunding To Land A Hopping Rover On The Moon
http://realtime.rediff.com/news/realtime/Penn-State-Students-Seek-Crowdfunding-To-Land-A-Hopping-Rover-On-The-Moon/fe9c342fe29a4b1d?src=interim_alsoreadheadline

Bitcoin Has the Power to Transform Digital Media Forever
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-power-transform-digital-media-forever/

The coin prince: inside Bitcoin’s first big money-laundering scandal
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/4/5374172/the-coin-prince-charlie-shrem-bitinstant-bitcoin-money-laundering-scandal

Business consulting – helping you outperform in a digital world
http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/consulting/

Be it bitcoins or dollars, money’s value rooted in beliefs
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-02-03/news/46964128_1_stateless-currencies-one-bitcoin-zerocoin

Why Google Cannot Run The World: Wisdom = Data + Experience
http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2014/02/05/why-google-can-not-run-the-world-wisdom-data-experience/

Why Launching an Online Brand Takes Guts and 3 Tips for How to Do It Right
http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2326949/why-launching-an-online-brand-takes-guts-and-3-tips-for-how-to-do-it-right

Satya Nadella’s First Email To Employees As New Microsoft CEO: ‘Who Am I?
http://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-email-to-microsoft-employees-2014-2

Five things you should know about running your business from home
http://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2014/jan/29/home-business-working-technology

UPDATE 2-JPMorgan to pay $614 mln in U.S. mortgage fraud case
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/jpmorgan-settle-idUSL2N0L928N20140205

Three things to watch on information sharing
http://fcw.com/articles/2014/01/31/paul-on-info-sharing-2014.aspx

Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/senate-cybersecurity-report-finds-agencies-often-fail-to-take-basic-preventive-measures/2014/02/03/493390c2-8ab6-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

UK Governments 10 Step Guide to reducing risk of Cyber Attack
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/73128/12-1120-10-steps-to-cyber-security-executive.pdf

Do You Want a Lot More Social Media Views?
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140204130648-36792-do-you-want-a-lot-more-social-media-views?trk=RSS_Feed

Interview: Peter Singer on cybersecurity and cyberwar
http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2014/02/04/Interview-Peter-Singer-on-cybersecurity-and-cyberwar.aspx#.UvLYGhSnwp0.twitter

A Guide to the Internet of Things Infographic
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/intelligent-systems/iot/internet-of-things-starts-with-intelligence-inside.html

Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/35284/facebook-domain-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army/index.html

The Rise of Quantum Computing
http://csrspreadscience.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/the-rise-of-quantum-computing/

Wozniak: Apple Could Build Droid Phones, Warns of ‘Police State’
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/mobile-enterprise/wozniak-apple-could-build-droid-phones-warns-of-police-state-024070.php

Your memory is no video camera: It edits the past with present experiences
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140204185651.htm

Superhumans Created by Nanotechnology within 30 years

Superhumans Soon Created by Nanotechnology

5 Emerging Technologies That Could Destroy The World

5 Emerging Technologies that Could Destroy the World

Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
http://news.yahoo.com/man-gets-first-prosthetic-hand-feel-202300302.html

PENTAGON CHIEF: The Military Is Facing A Potential Ethical ‘Breakdown’
http://www.businessinsider.com/hagel-ethical-breakdown-2014-2

The Future Of Stealth Camouflage In Special Operations
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-stealth-camouflage-in-special-operations-2014-2

CONTAGION: Here Are 12 Frequently-Asked Questions About One Of The Most Serious Risks In Financial Markets
http://www.businessinsider.com/contagion-frequently-asked-questions-2014-2#ixzz2sVwwoExE

A New Quantum Communication Breakthrough Will Help Us Make A Super-Secure Internet
http://www.businessinsider.com/quantum-teleportation-fiber-optics-2014-2#ixzz2sVyPBOCl

Extraordinary stem cell method tested in human tissue
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25004-extraordinary-stem-cell-method-tested-in-human-tissue.html#.UvMaFrTSmHd

Is Google Building An Android Army? They Just Bought Another Artificial Intelligence Company
http://www.policymic.com/articles/81105/is-google-building-an-android-army-they-just-bought-another-artificial-intelligence-company

Ray Kurzweil is wrong: The Singularity is not near
http://pando.com/2014/02/03/the-singularity-is-not-near/

PayPal Is Cracking Down on Bitcoin Sellers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/idUS371088795720140205
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QUOTATION(S): “…Change is hard. Change is hardest on those caught by surprise. Change is hardest on those who have difficulty changing too. But change is natural; change is not new; change is important…” AND “…Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition…”

CITATION: “…BEGINNING WITH THE AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE IN THE KNOWN WORLD AT THE TIME OF CHRIST, STUDIES HAVE ESTIMATED THAT THE FIRST DOUBLING OF THAT KNOWLEDGE TOOK PLACE ABOUT 1700 A.D. THE SECOND DOUBLING OCCURRED AROUND THE YEAR 1900. IT IS ESTIMATED TODAY THAT THE WORLD’S KNOWLEDGE BASE WILL DOUBLE AGAIN BY 2010 AND AGAIN AFTER THAT BY 2013…”

RECOMMENDED BOOK(S): Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier. ISBN-13: 978–1451654967

Regards,

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

The Future of Scientific Management, Today!

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FEBRUARY 06/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at The Future of Scientific Management, Today! At http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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Faraway Planets May Be Far Better for Life http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/superhabitable-planets/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciam/space+%28Topic:+Space%29

Six Trends That Will Shape Consumer Behavior This Year http://www.forbes.com/sites/onmarketing/2014/02/04/six-trends-that-will-shape-consumer-behavior-this-year/

Viewing Cancer as a Physics Problem Suggests New Treatments http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/viewing-cancer-as-a-physics-problem-suggests-new-treatments/

Brain Scans Show Promise for Early Detection of Cognitive Problems http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-scans-show-promise-for-early-detection-of-cognitive-problems/

DNA-origami nanotubes self-align with self-organized nanoscale patterns to create nanoelectronic circuits http://www.kurzweilai.net/dna-origami-nanotubes-self-align-with-self-organized-nanoscale-patterns-to-create-nanoelectronic-circuits

First single-molecule LED http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-single-molecule-led

Virus-free, cord-blood-derived stem cells repair retinal tissue in mice http://www.kurzweilai.net/virus-free-cord-blood-derived-stem-cells-repair-retinal-tissue-in-mice

Will ‘borophene’ replace graphene as a better conductor of electrons? http://www.kurzweilai.net/will-borophene-replace-graphene-as-a-better-conductor-of-electrons

The mind-blowing mathematics of sunflowers http://www.sciencedump.com/content/mind-blowing-mathematics-sunflowers

Miniature satellites utilize UDP-based multicasting over WIFI to relay data in a more secure and direct way. http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/outer-space-wifi-global-access.html#!usmgT

First Single-Molecule LED http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechnology/first-single-molecule-led

The Critical Security Controls for Effective Cyber Defense 5.0 Opens to Public Comment https://www.sans.org/press/the-critical-security-controls-for-effective-cyber-defense-5-opens-to-public-comment.php

Six Simple Insights to Become a Better Innovator http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140203094739-206580-six-simple-insights-to-become-a-better-innovator

13 Predictions About The Future That Were Spectacularly Wrong http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/03/wrong-predictions-about-the-future_n_4297269.html

The future of wearables: 8 predictions from tech leaders http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57618181-94/the-future-of-wearables-8-predictions-from-tech-leaders/

India’s first ‘school in the cloud’ aims to elevate kids http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57618332-1/indias-first-school-in-the-cloud-aims-to-elevate-kids/

Nationalism could destroy global economy, warns Christine Lagarde http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/10615697/Nationalism-could-destroy-global-economy-warns-Christine-Lagarde.html

“Perception” and “Prediction” Goal of Ford’s MIT/Stanford Automated Driving Partnership http://www.arisplex.com/analysis/perception-prediction-goal-fords-mitstanford-automated-driving-partnership/

Johnson & Johnson Takes Newspaper Readers Back With Ads That Smell Like Baby Powder http://www.fastcocreate.com/3025969/johnson-johnson-takes-indian-newspaper-readers-back-with-ads-that-smell-like-baby-powder

Scratch-Off Bus Stop Ads Reveal Hidden Art http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/scratch-off-these-bus-stop-ads-to-reveal-hidden-art/

How Architecture Could Shape Your Microbiome http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025782/asides/how-architecture-could-shape-your-microbiome

Expansion Boom in the UK from Overseas Internet Shoppers http://localuknews.co.uk/article/expansion-boom-in-the-uk-from-overseas-internet-shoppers

Twitter Is Hiring Commerce Specialists http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/03/twitter-is-hiring-commerce-specialists/

Teaching Surgery With Google Glass–Will This Actually Work? http://www.fastcolabs.com/3026021/teaching-surgery-with-google-glass-will-this-actually-work

Lightwaves used by neuroscientists to improve brain tumor surgery http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140129114612.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fhealth_medicine%2Fdiseases_and_conditions+%28Diseases+and+Conditions+News+–+ScienceDaily%29

DARPA wants self-destructible computer chips http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/02/04/darpa-wants-self-destructible-computer-chips/

Spare parts for fighter jets made by 3D printers http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/spare-parts-for-fighter-jets-made-by-3d-printers-1-3256664

A market for anti-NSA technology emerges http://www.lohud.com/usatoday/article/4656195

Construction’s Growing Role in Renewable Energy http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/features/2014/01/13/316343.htm

CDM Jan 2014 is out for free – Welcome 2014: The Year of Mobile Spying and Privacy Concerns http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/21818/security/cdm-jan-2014-free-welcome-2014-year-mobile-spying-privacy-concerns.html

Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1 http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dilemma-inzero-systems-offers-2-tablets-in-1.html

4 Things You Need to Know About Future NSA Director Michael Rogers http://mashable.com/2014/01/31/nsa-director-michael-rogers/

Bank Financing Played Big Role in Trade Collapse http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2014/01/31/bank-financing-played-big-role-in-trade-collapse/

What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/02/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-economies-of-scale-in-tech/

Al-Qaida Cuts Ties with Syrian Rebel Group http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/al-qaida-cuts-ties-syrian-rebel-group/

House Approves Bill on WMD Medical Countermeasures Expenditures http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/house-approves-bill-authorizing-use-funds-wmd-medical-countermeasures/

Moscow Agrees To Process Uzbekistan’s Spent Nuclear Fuel http://article.wn.com/view/2014/02/04/Moscow_Agrees_to_Process_Uzbekistans_Spent_Nuclear_Fuel/

Top 13 Cyber Security predictions for 2014… http://techday.com/it-brief/news/top-13-cyber-security-predictions-for-2014/174862/

Cyber Security Market Forecast 2014–2024 http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/cyber-security-market-forecast-2014-2024-243487631.html

Obama hooks up new school broadband plan http://www.zdnet.com/obama-hooks-up-new-school-broadband-plan-7000025964/

Sailors allegedly cheated on nuclear reactor tests http://www.stripes.com/

Secret Service urges lawmakers to do more on cyber crime http://news.yahoo.com/secret-urges-u-lawmakers-more-cyber-crime-210540738–sector.html

As Cyber Crime Matures, More Hacked Accounts Expected http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2014/02/03/as-cyber-crime-matures-more-hacked-accounts-expected/

Cyber-defence boss joins security company, warns: ‘You can’t keep a determined adversary out’ http://www.zdnet.com/cyber-defence-boss-joins-security-company-warns-you-cant-keep-a-determined-adversary-out-7000025931/

Military Force vs. Diplomacy: Can You Have One Without the Other? http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2014/01/military-force-vs-diplomacy-can-you-have-one-without-other/78014/?oref=d-skybox

Nation Faces Many Threats, Intelligence Chief Says http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=121608

Change Agents: William Li’s robot wants to police you http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/01/26/knightscope-k5-police-robot/4018047/

Troubleshooting TBI: How to Beat the Odds http://military-fitness.military.com/2014/02/troubleshooting-tbi-how-to-beat-the-odds.html

Narratives in the analytics era http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2014/2/4/5360412/nhl-analytics-narratives-media

Rural carriers start connecting customers to doctors via mobile video chat http://gigaom.com/2014/02/04/rural-carriers-start-connecting-customers-to-doctors-via-mobile-video-chat/

Out in the Open: Man Creates One Programming Language to Rule Them All http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia/

From Secondary Intelligence Shortage to Secondary Intelligence Surplus http://www.clearci.com/blog/bid/193744/From-Secondary-Intelligence-Shortage-to-Secondary-Intelligence-Surplus

The networked car is no longer just an idea; it will be mandated in future vehicles http://gigaom.com/2014/02/03/the-networked-car-is-no-longer-just-an-idea-it-will-be-mandated-in-future-vehicles/

Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data http://qz.com/169206/why-the-only-thing-better-than-big-data-is-bigger-data/

QUOTATION: “…Thirty-five years ago, psychologist and visionary Dr. Abraham Maslow warned, ‘life is moving far more rapidly now than ever before in the rate of growth of facts, knowledge, techniques, and inventions. We need a different kind of human being able to life in a world that changes perpetually, who has been educated to be comfortable with change and situations in which he has absolutely no forewarning. The society that can turn out those people will survive. Societies which do not will die.’…”

RECOMMENDED BOOK: Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime by Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae. ISBN-13: 978–0312367077

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini

Risk Management Tranformative Futurist

http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

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FEBRUARY 05/2014 UPDATES [LIST]. By Mr. Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
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Do autistic brains create more information at rest or do they have weaker connectivity — or both?
http://www.kurzweilai.net/do-autistic-brains-create-more-information-at-rest-or-do-they-have-weaker-connectivity-or-both

‘Electronic tongue’ identifies brands of beer with 81.9% accuracy
http://www.kurzweilai.net/electronic-tongue-identifies-brands-of-beer-with-81-9-accuracy

Bodily maps of emotions
http://www.kurzweilai.net/bodily-maps-of-emotions

Antibiotic ‘smart bomb’ can target specific strains of bacteria
http://www.kurzweilai.net/antibiotic-smart-bomb-can-target-specific-strains-of-bacteria

Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014

Trends and Predictions: How the Future Looks Like for Web Design in 2014

Credit cards of the future: 4 exciting trends
http://www.nasdaq.com/article/credit-cards-of-the-future-4-exciting-trends-cm128025#ixzz2sMsGbooH

The 5 foods best-suited for 3D printing
http://www.fooddive.com/news/the-5-foods-best-suited-for-3d-printing/222556/

Nature is Not Human-Centric
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/01/nature-is-not-human-centric/

Your Brain Is Fine-Tuning Its Wiring Throughout Your Life
http://myscienceacademy.org/2014/02/03/your-brain-is-fine-tuning-its-wiring-throughout-your-life/?fb_action_ids=10152136722100795&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=[238069896376047]&action_type_map=[%22og.likes%22]&action_ref_map=[]

The World’s Smallest Engine Runs on a Single Atom
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/the-worlds-smallest-engine-runs-on-a-single-atom-16451781

Guest column: Constituent care — Are government contact centers ready for the generational flood?
http://fedscoop.com/guest-column-constituent-care-government-contact-centers-ready-generational-flood/#.UvAFKBasOSY.twitter

Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets

Searching for Life on Earth-Like Planets May Be a Mistake, Need to Consider Superhabitable Planets

Survey says more attention being paid to data privacy, but still a ways to go
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2014/013114-survey-says-more-attention-being-278332.html?source=nww_rss&utm_content=buffer90b74&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Quantum engineers make a major step towards a scalable quantum computer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-engineers-make-a-major-step-towards-a-scalable-quantum-computer

Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29#.UvEN9LTSmHd

DHS has become the epicenter for government cybersecurity
http://www.gsnmagazine.com/node/32882?c=cyber_security

THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: Official Trailer
http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/89414/the-future-of-the-mind/

What the Internet of Things Will Mean for CIOs
http://www.cio.com/article/747634/What_the_Internet_of_Things_Will_Mean_for_CIOs

Why predictive maintenance is more relevant today than ever before
http://www.simafore.com/blog/bid/204618/Why-predictive-maintenance-more-relevant-today-than-ever-before

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

Dangerous ideas: About that Princeton Facebook study — wrong, but not entirely crazy
http://which-50.com/post/75339864941/dangerous-ideas-about-that-princeton-facebook-study

Personal Banking and the Data-Driven Approach

DSC Webinar Series: Data Contributions to a Conversational AI Platform

20 Lessons Enterprise CIOs Can Learn from Supercomputing
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-11-12/20_lessons_enterprise_big_data_buffs_can_learn_from_supercomputing.html

Big data misused to justify vaccination
http://www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/big-data-misused-to-justify-vaccination

First Single-Molecule LED
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/nanotechnology/first-single-molecule-led

Employment in Renewable Energy Sector Reaches 5.7 Million Globally
http://www.irena.org/News/Description.aspx?NType=A&mnu=cat&PriMenuID=16&CatID=84&News_ID=351

The World Has Deep Areas of Expertise. We Need Agility and Context
http://bigthink.com/big-think-edge/the-world-has-deep-areas-of-expertise-we-need-agility-and-context?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+bigthink/main+%28Big+Think+Main%29

Marc Andreessen Has A Great Answer For Why Bitcoin Matters
http://www.businessinsider.com/marc-andreessen-on-why-bitcoin-is-worth-money-2014-1

Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy

Motorola Patents Electronic Telepathy

New Solar Cells Get the Blues in a Good Way

Energy Update: New Solar Cells Get the Blues in a Good Way

A window to the future of research
http://www.mpg.de/7865824/Science_Tunnel

Surface map of a brown dwarf
http://www.mpg.de/7870755/surface-map-brown-dwarf

The future of oil supply
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/2014/2006.xhtml

The Human enhancement and the future of work project
http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/human-enhancement/workshop-report/

Whole-genome sequence of a flatfish provides insights into ZW sex chromosome evolution and adaptation to a benthic lifestyle
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2890.html

Scientists reading fewer papers for first time in 35 years
http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-reading-fewer-papers-for-first-time-in-35-years-1.14658

Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
http://www.nature.com/news/elsevier-opens-its-papers-to-text-mining-1.14659

Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research

Top UK university pledges reform to ‘change the culture’ of its animal research

Challenging Israel

Challenging Israel

Pruning Synapses Improves Brain Connections
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39055/title/Pruning-Synapses-Improves-Brain-Connections/

Science Cartoonist Doesn’t Draw “Funny Style”
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39033/title/Science-Cartoonist-Doesn-t-Draw–Funny-Style-/

Opinion: The Burden of Proof
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/39053/title/Opinion–The-Burden-of-Proof/

The Dilemma of Space Debris
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/the-dilemma-of-space-debris

Flights of Fancy in Avian Evolution
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/flights-of-fancy-in-avian-evolution

How to Fight Back Against Antibiotic Resistance
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/how-to-fight-back-against-antibiotic-resistance

Ocean Acidification: The Other Climate Change Issue
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/feature/2014/1/ocean-acidification-the-other-climate-change-issue

QUOTATION: “…The flattening of the world is going to be hugely disruptive to both traditional and developed societies. The weak will fall further behind faster. The traditional will feel the force of modernization much more profoundly. The new will get turned into old quicker. The developed will be challenged by the underdeveloped much more profoundly. I worry, because so much political stability is built on economic stability, and economic stability is not going to be a feature of the flat world. Add it all up and you can see that the disruptions and going to come faster and harder. No one is immune ─ not me, not you, not Microsoft. WE ARE ENTERING AN ERA OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION ON STEROIDS. Dealing with flatism is going to be a challenge of a whole new dimension even if your country has a strategy. But if you don’t have a strategy at all, well, again, you’ve warned…”

RECOMMENDED BOOK: The Living Company: Growth, Learning and Longevity in Business by Arie De Geus
ISBN-13: 978–1857881851

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.TheProfessionalFuturist.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini

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FEBRUARY 04/2014 UPDATES. By Mr. Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
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Lockheed Uses Robot Arm To Build F-35s

Lockheed Uses Robot Arm To Build F-35s

New Method of Creating Stem Cells is a “Game Changer”
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/01/30/new-method-of-creating-stem-cells-is-a-game-changer/#.Uu7rhLTSmHd

The Future of Skunkworks Management to Impossible Business Enterprises
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29#.Uu7yMbTSmHd

Stem Cell Powder Regrows Finger
http://www.minds.com/blog/view/275393897318846464/stem-cell-powder-regrows-finger

Bill Gates: We need global ‘energy miracles’
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/02/12/bill.gates.clean.energy/

Forecast: America to be hit by temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees
http://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2014/01/forecast-america-to-be-hit-by-temperatures-as-low-as-minus-40-degrees.html

Top 10 cities people are moving to
http://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2014/01/27/cities-moving/index.html?iid=HP_LN

The Super Rich are mad as hell — and doing great
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/28/news/economy/super-rich-attack/index.html?iid=HP_Highlight

Was There A Beginning Of Time And Will There Be An End Of Time?
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/timeslowingdown.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29#.Uu8CN7TSmHd

Quantum Vibrations Evidence For Theory Of Consciousness?
http://www.science20.com/news_articles/quantum_vibrations_evidence_theory_consciousness-127866

Facebook Steps Onto Twitter’s TV Data Turf
http://mashable.com/2014/01/30/facebook-tv-data/

Big Data Debates: Machines Vs. Humans
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2014/01/31/big-data-debates-machines-vs-humans/

Brain-Machine Interfaces Threaten Privacy of Thought
http://www.techthefuture.com/technology/brain-machine-interfaces-threaten-privacy-of-thought/

Researchers find early developmental signal hidden amid ‘noncoding’ RNA

‘On’ switches for cells

Eye Movement Can Reveal Much about Your Personality and Behavior

Eye Movement Can Reveal Much about Your Personality and Behavior

Storage system dramatically speeds access to ‘big data’
http://www.kurzweilai.net/storage-system-dramatically-speeds-access-to-big-data

Training your brain using MEG neurofeedback
http://www.kurzweilai.net/training-your-brain-using-meg-neurofeedback

‘Rogue’ asteroids may be the norm
http://www.kurzweilai.net/rogue-asteroids-may-be-the-norm

Quantum engineers make a major step towards a scalable quantum computer
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-engineers-make-a-major-step-towards-a-scalable-quantum-computer

Quantum espionage
http://www.kurzweilai.net/quantum-espionage

Faces Of The Future? Artist Nickolay Lamm’s Illustrations Show Freaky Facial Features (PHOTOS)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/11/faces-of-the-future-human-facial-features-photos_n_3391747.html

Quantum encryption for wiretap-proof communication a step closer
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20140203-quantum-encryption-for-wiretapproof-communication-a-step-closer

The Fastest-Growing Jobs of This Decade (and the Robots That Will Steal Them)
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/the-fastest-growing-jobs-of-this-decade-and-the-robots-that-will-steal-them/283411/

IBM’s Next Big Thing: Psychic Twitter Bots
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025738/ibms-next-big-thing-psychic-twitter-bots

Robots Are Coming for Our Poems
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/robots-are-coming-for-our-poems

Researchers Identify Major Obstacle to Converting Cells Back to Their Youthful State

Researchers Identify Major Obstacle to Converting Cells Back to Their Youthful State

SUGGESTED BOOK: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
ISBN-13: 978–1451614213

QUOTATION: “…Again, yesterday holds tomorrow hostage .… Memory is past. It is finite. Vision is future. It is infinite. Vision is greater than history…”

SUGGESTED BOOK: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler. ISBN-13: 978–1451614213
Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini

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FEBRUARY 03/2014 UPDATES. By Mr.Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
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Maps showing which parts of the world would be flooded if all the world’s ice melted
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/rising-seas/if-ice-melted-map

3-D printing takes shape
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/manufacturing/3-d_printing_takes_shape?cid=manufacturing-eml-alt-mkq-mck-oth-1401

40 more maps that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/

The Future of Space-Age Management
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

Race Is On to Find Life Under Antarctic Ice
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121218-antarctica-life-microbes-ice-science-environment/

Google sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the robots
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2548355/Google-sets-artificial-intelligence-ethics-board-curb-rise-robots.html

WORLD HUNGER: A CRISIS NOW AND A CATASTROPHE IN 2050?
http://www.economistinsights.com/sustainability-resources/event/feeding-world-2014?utm_source=Global%20Policy%20&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=EM0167%3A%20Feeding%20the%20World

40 charts that explain the world
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/15/40-charts-that-explain-the-world/

Assignment Remix: Intern-preneurs and Building Bold Thinking
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/01/assignment-remix-entrepreneurial-internship-work/

The 3rd Citizen Cyberscience Summit: Feb 20 — 22, 2014

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Waypoint 2 Space Trains Passengers For Commercial Launches
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2014/01/29/waypoint-2-space-trains-passengers-for-commercial-launches/

Megacity Tips from Europe’s Highest Town as Davos Debates Future
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-26/megacity-tips-from-europe-s-highest-town-as-davos-debates-future.html

Student-built satellite sends data from space
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-student-built-satellite-space.html

How the Dream Chaser was built
http://phys.org/news/2014-01-video-chaser-built.html

How Is Business Intelligence Being Used Differently in Asia?
http://www.idgconnect.com/blog-abstract/5387/how-is-business-intelligence-being-used-differently-asia

Stumbling Blocks That Faceplant Security Analytics Programs
http://www.darkreading.com/stumbling-blocks-that-faceplant-security/240165754

Bio-printing human parts will spark ethical, regulatory debate
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245834/Bio_printing_human_parts_will_spark_ethical_regulatory_debate

Bioprinting human organs and tissue: Get ready for the great 3D printer debate
http://www.zdnet.com/bioprinting-human-organs-and-tissue-get-ready-for-the-great-3d-printer-debate-7000025730/

China Emerges Tanzania’s Major Investor
http://www.ventures-africa.com/2014/01/china-emerges-as-tanzanias-major-investor/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

How We Increased Productivity on the Shop Floor
http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/how-we-increased-productivity-on-the-shop-floor/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&ref=smallbusiness&_r=1

Eve Online virtual war ‘costs $300,000′ in damage
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25944837?ocid=socialflow_twitter#

Millions experiencing Arctic chill, new snow
http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/millions-experiencing-arctic-chill-new-snow/

Google Still Wins by Selling Motorola for Cheap
http://www.wired.com/business/2014/01/google-moto/?cid=co17808934

There’s a giant robot directing traffic in Congo
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2014/01/30/theres-a-giant-robot-directing-traffic-in-congo/

The Link Between Viral Content And Emotional Intelligence
http://www.fastcompany.com/3025474/leadership-now/the-link-between-viral-content-and-emotional-intelligence?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29

Scientists Create Map of Solar System’s Asteroids
http://www.sci-news.com/space/science-map-solar-system-asteroids-01731.html

Hackers, spies, threats and the US spies’ budget
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25933791

Sparking innovation

Sparking innovation

NASA Instruments on European Comet Spacecraft Begin Countdown
http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/inbrief/2014/01/20140128291716.html#ixzz2s912yA9p

Media Relations: Why The Economist Thinks We Have It Wrong
http://socialmediatoday.com/ginidietrich/2120391/media-relations-why-economist-thinks-we-have-it-wrong?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=hootsuite_tweets

How Your Internal Organs Could Power Implanted Devices
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/med-tech/how-your-internal-organs-could-power-implanted-devices-16405636??src=rss

7 Takeaways From Google’s Sale Of Motorola To Lenovo
http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2014/01/30/7-takeways-from-googles-sale-of-motorola-to-lenovo/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Mad for mapping: 6 projects that change the way you see data. What lessons can geography teach your business?
http://www.itworld.com/slideshow/128479/mad-mapping-6-projects-change-way-you-see-data-382783

Trendspotting: 6 mapping trends that are good for business
http://m.itworld.com/big-data/382674/trendspotting-how-mapping-your-data-can-make-business-trends-more-obvious-and-more-p?sf19695409=1&mm_ref=http%3A%2F%2Fautobahn.esri.com%2Fesri%2Fetrack.aspx%3FDSN%3Db9ca57b2fbe8cb42458807853387983f6a0f6be5ccdab113%26FORMID%3Dbd09aee841585a03db5938ed3e6f762d%26AUDID%3Dd0f0fbb0e32b41c94cbec060b7894cfc%26EMAILID%3Db6bf6e6f9ba0ce80e263faf3a935abb77e1eee5986325dae%26DECODE%3D1%26INTID%3Dbfd252c8149e6539f3aebefbb222ec6a%26URL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.itworld.com%2Fbig-data%2F382674%2Ftrendspotting-how-mapping-your-data-can-make-business-trends-more-obvious-and-more-p%3Fsf19695409%3D1

Google’s New A.I. Ethics Board Might Save Humanity From Extinction
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/29/google-ai_n_4683343.html?ir=Technology&utm_campaign=012914&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Alert-technology&utm_content=FullStory

Russian Coders, Ukrainian Cybercriminal, Mexican Smugglers, And The Largest Cybercrime In History
http://www.ibtimes.com/russian-coders-ukrainian-cybercriminal-mexican-smugglers-largest-cybercrime-history-1547854

African banks investigated for cybercrime complicity
http://www.cfoworld.com/technology/80728/african-banks-investigated-cybercrime-complicity#sthash.ykyccS6U.dpuf

Will the Next Industrial Revolution Be Bigger than the First? Will Geospatial Technology be Part of It?
http://geospatial-solutions.com/will-the-next-industrial-revolution-will-be-bigger-than-the-first-will-geospatial-technology-be-part-of-it/

New Patent Mapping System Helps Find Innovation Pathways
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/01/14/new-patent-mapping-system-helps-find-innovation-pathways

America’s Most Promising Companies: The Top 25 Of 2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2014/01/22/americas-most-promising-companies-the-top-25-of-2014/

Solving the Mobile Device Dilemma: InZero Systems offers 2-Tablets-in-1
http://www.prlog.org/12276372-solving-the-mobile-device-dilemma-inzero-systems-offers-2-tablets-in-1.html

What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech

What We Talk About When We Talk About Economies Of Scale In Tech

Emerging markets: Locus of extremity | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21595485-developing-economies-struggle-cope-new-world-locus-extremity

Climate change research is globally skewed
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/2014/01/climate-change-research-is-globally-skewed/

Towards the circular economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains

Towards the circular economy

QUOTATION: “…Our world tomorrow will be utterly different, in ways we cannot even conceive…”

RECOMMENDED BOOK: Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics by Paul Ormerod
ISBN-13: 978–0470089194

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini

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FEBRUARY 02/2014UPDATES. By Mr.Andres Agostini at www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
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Mass unemployment fears over Google artificial intelligence plans
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10603933/Mass-unemployment-fears-over-Google-artificial-intelligence-plans.html

Should We Re-Engineer Ourselves?
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/pearce20140201

A New Physics Theory of Life
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20140122-a-new-physics-theory-of-life/

Dr. Rachel Armstrong — Earth’s Bright Future
http://www.londonreal.tv/episodes/dr-rachel-armstrong-earths-bright-future/

The 5 Innovations That Will Change Everything, According to Elon Musk
http://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/01/31/elon-musk-5-innovations/

Google … Might Save Humanity From Extinction

Google … Might Save Humanity From Extinction

The Future of Aerospace Management
http://lnkd.in/bYP2nDC

The Coming Artilect War
http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/cosmist-terran-cyborgist-opinions-contributors-artificial-intelligence-09-hugo-de-garis.html

The Smartest Supermarket You Never Heard Of
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2014/01/28/h-e-b/

David Eagleman: Welcome to Your Future Brain

U.S. Government: Prioritize Technological Development to Increase Healthy Human Lifespans
http://www.change.org/petitions/u-s-government-prioritize-technological-development-to-increase-healthy-human-lifespans

The Most Significant Futurists of the Past 50 Years
http://creativenesswithahmed.blogspot.in/2014/01/the-most-significant-futurists-of-past.html

Future News : Pfizer heads to Cicero to test new life extension drug
http://thinkfuture.com/2013/10/03/news-from-the-future-pfizer-heads-to-cicero-to-test-new-life-extension-drug/

The Singularity and Mutational Load

The Singularity and Mutational Load

Max More — The Singularity and Transhumanism

Behavior Oriented Trading Robot
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/behavior-oriented-trading-robot

Google is About to Create an Army of Robots
http://interestingengineering.com/google-is-about-to-create-an-army-of-robots/

IBM builds graphene chip that’s 10,000 times faster, using standard CMOS processes
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175727-ibm-builds-graphene-chip-thats-10000-times-faster-using-standard-cmos-processes

3-D scanning with your smartphone
http://m.phys.org/news/2014-01-d-scanning-smartphone.html

From Disembodied Bytes To Robots That Think & Act Like Humans
http://footnote1.com/from-disembodied-bytes-to-robots-that-think-act-like-humans/

Video Friday: DeepMind’s Shane Legg on Machine Superintelligence

Video Friday: DeepMind’s Shane Legg on Machine Superintelligence

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Actually, I Don’t Want To Live Forever — Here’s Why
http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-life-death-2014-1

Prosthetics: Meet the man with 13 legs
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140123-the-man-with-13-legs

Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision for Our Future Evolution
http://transhumanpotential.com/htptwp/

3D Printers Could be Banned by 2016 for Bioprinting Human Organs
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3d-printers-could-be-banned-by-2016-bioprinting-human-organs-1434221

Stem cell timeline: The history of a medical sensation
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24970-stem-cell-timeline-the-history-of-a-medical-sensation.html

A Change in the Legal Climate
http://mag.newsweek.com/2014/01/31/change-legal-climate.html

NASA | Six Decades of a Warming Earth

The Future Will Belong to Those Who Can See It
The Future Will Belong to Those Who Can See It

Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same

Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same

Ray Kurzweil at Singularity University with the class of 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tZRi05934#t=4940

This Is What a Computer Sees When It Watches The Matrix
http://www.wired.com/design/2014/01/computer-sees-watches-matrix/?cid=17873404

The journey to predict the future: Kira Radinsky at TEDxHiriya

Air Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane passes 400 days in orbit
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/01/30/air-force-mysterious-x-37b-space-plane-passes-400-days-in-orbit/

Getting Ready for Asteroids
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science/space/49789-getting-ready-for-asteroids.html

Plan Asserts Global Transition to Renewable Energy is Achievable by Mid-Century
http://www.btlonline.org/2014/seg/140131bf-btl-jacobson.html#.UuFyFZN12Hc.twitter

Senior U.S. spies warn of future security threats
http://io9.com/senior-u-s-spies-warn-of-future-security-threats-1512591889

The Human Memome Project
http://scistarter.com/project/779-The%20Human%20Memome%20Project

Vitamin D could slow MS progression

Vitamin D could slow MS progression

The Disruptive Nature of the Sharing Economy: Finding the Next Great Opportunities
http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2014/02/the-disruptive-nature-of-the-sharing-economy-finding-the-next-great-opportunities/

QUOTATION: “…Digital code is what drives rapid speed growth today. It allows mergers like AOL Time Warner … It drives the Internet, TV, music, finance, IT, news coverage, research, manufacturing. A few countries and companies understood the change. That is how poor countries like Finland, Singapore, and Taiwan got so wealthy … So quickly … But a lot of folks just did not learn to read and write a new language … And even though they produced more and more goods, particularly commodities … And even though they restructured companies and governments … Cut budgets, raised taxes, built large factories and buildings … They got a lot poorer. (In 1938 the richest country per person in Asia was … the Philippines. In 1954, according to the World Bank, the most promising Asian economy was … Burma. Both remain commodity economies … Both are sidelined from the digital revolution … And you probably would not like to live in either country). Your world changed when you went ‘On Line.’ One day you used a fax or e-mail … And it soon became hard to conceive of living with only snail mail. If you understood this change early … And invested or worked in some of the companies driving the digital revolution … You are probably quite well off … (as a country and/or as an individual). If you came late, as a speculator, without understanding what a digital language does, or does not do … You probably lost a lot of money during the year 2000. Your world … and your language … are about to change again. The two nucleotide base pairs that code all life …A-T, C-G … Have already led some of the world’s largest companies … Monsanto … DuPont … Novartis … IBM … Hoechst … Compaq … GlaxoSmithKline … To declare that their future lies in life science. They have abandoned, sold, spun off core business divisions … And launched themselves into selling completely new products … Which is why so many chemical, seed, cosmetic, food, pharmaceutical companies … Are partnering, Merging, Growing. Some life-science companies will crash spectacularly … Others will get larger than Microsoft and Cisco … (Companies that are already larger than the economies of most of the world’s countries.). The world’s mega-mergers are going to be driven by digital and genetic code. Consider what is about to happen to medicine. You currently spend about nine times as much for doctors and medical interventions … As you do on medicines and prevention. In the measure that we understand how viruses, bacteria, and our bodies are programmed … And how they can be reprogrammed … Treatment will shift from emergency interventions … Toward deliberate and personalized prevention … (Just as dentistry did.). And we may end up spending just as much on pharmaceuticals as we do on doctors. These medicines do not have to be pills or injections … They could be a part of the food you eat every day, your soap or cosmetics … Perhaps you will inhale them or simply put various patches on your skin. (This is why Procter & Gamble is thinking of merging with a pharmaceutical company, why L’Oreal is hiring molecular biologists, and why Campbell’s is selling soups designed for hospital patients with specific diseases.)…”

RECOMMENDED BOOK: Revolutionary Wealth: How it will be created and how it will change our lives by Alvin Toffler and Heidi Toffler
ISBN-13: 978–0385522076

Regards,

Mr. Andres Agostini
www.Future-Observatory.blogspot.com
www.ThisSuccess.wordprocessor.com
www.xeeme.com/AAgostini

The Future of Spage-Age Management, Today! by Mr. Andres Agostini at http://lnkd.in/d7zExFi
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This is an excerpt from the conclusion section o, “…The Future of Spage-Age Management, Today!..,” that discusses some management strategies. To read the entire piece, just click the link at the end of article:

BEGINNING OF EXCERPT.

Mr. David Shaw’s question, “…Andres, from your work on the future which management skills need to be developed? Classically the management role is about planning, organizing, leading and controlling. With the changes coming in the future what’s your view on how this management mix needs to change and adapt?…” This question was posited on an Internet Forum, formulated by Mr. David Shaw (Peterborough, United Kingdom) at http://lnkd.in/ba6xX-K on October 09, 2013.

This P.O.V. addresses practical and structural solutions, not onerous quick fixes. THIS P.O.V. WILL BE COMMUNICATED UNAMBIGUOUSLY AND EMPHATICALLY.

For instance, Stuart A. Copans asserted, “…Study the past if you would divine the future…” And Edmund Burke pointed out, “…You can never plan the future by the past…”
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To set the stage properly, I will start with an enlightening quote by Albert Einstein.

“…The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them…”

Or, it could be better noted:

“…The significant problems we face [today] cannot be solved [in the future] at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them [in the past]…”

One other thing that must now be considered is a primordial axiom that is instrumental and widely considered here. That is, “…everything is related to everything else…”

Working with the second largest oil group in the world (PDVSA, with 54,000 active employees. PDVSA is Citgo’s parent company), that group wanted me to only institute beyond-insurance risk management.
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You see, when they were to incur in a loss (potential disruption), it did not suffice to them to have the indemnity payment from the insurance and reinsurance pool.

On January 1982 I officially started serious thinking about “…beyond-insurance risk management…” And since then all the way throughout this date. Conversely, insurance-based risk management is the old guard while beyond-insurance risk management is the vanguard.

Many experts and even scientists and futurists speak about empirical management with the sole perspective of unimplemented theoretical notions (that is, with too many unanswered questions and unlearned lessons). BUT THE MATTER IS, HAVE THEY REALLY EXERCISED THE ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY OF DIRECTLY MANAGING A LARGE, GLOBAL ENTERPRISE SUCCESSFULLY? WHAT EXACTLY IS THE APPLIED EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELD THAT THEY POSSES?

QUESTION: What PRECISELY have said scientists and futurists directly manage in the practical theater of operations? How, in the world, can they speak with grounds about practical management solutions? What are the accurate details of their proven track record? Really?

QUESTION: In all truth, What are their applied methodologies?

Let’s see an example of a large misconception now.

A West-Coast Futurist states that organizations and people must have “…the capacity to adapt and learn now how to prepare for risks…” According to him, How exactly does one institute his futuristic “…risk management…”? Then, he suggests that a) Risk Monitoring, b) Risk Analysis, c) Risk Sensing and d) Risk Management are a function of Strategic Risk Forecasting. Indeed!
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My long professional and practical experience in the fields of applied management, corporate planning and risk management consultation, strategy and associated services with major organizations and corporations extends to more than thirty years.

I have instituted all-encompassing beyond-insurance risk management (TAIRM) to more than a dozen of global institutions of unparallelled reputation hereunder.

That is, I have over thirty year of proven, practical “…beyond-insurance risk management…” experience.

Many of these institutions, including the WorldBank, have issued either written evidence or letter of references of the services provided.

Whenever I speak hereby about how I practice “…risk management…”, I will only be referring to scientifically-driven beyond-insurance risk management and never ever be referring to financially-driven risk management.
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“…Management of Risk and Insurance…” does not ever equate to beyond-insurance risk management.

It is now important to assert that “…COSO Risk Management…” and “…Enterprise Risk Management…” are never beyond-insurance risk management.

“…Management of Captive Insurance Companies…” does not ever equate to beyond-insurance risk management.

“…‘Risk Management’ (so-called) by Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers…” does not ever equate to beyond-insurance risk management.

Under the financial focus, institutional and corporate firms “…transfer risks…” (so called) to insurance and reinsurance companies (suboptimal or ineffectual choice).

Under the TAIRM focus, institutional and corporate firms manage risks optimally through the systems approach with the applied omniscience perspective (optimal decision).

The word “…system…” is here used in its ample meaning and does not hereby refer to computer systems.

Receiving indemnity payments was observed as insidious mediocrity by this petroleum group. After all, one must realize that they are not a primarily financial system “player” but an institutional incumbent mostly exercising ownership and profit of fixed assets (organically). Obviously, the financial aspects and those of their liquid assets were also important to them.

The high-raking executives of most of these global institutions know that insurance and reinsurance companies have rampant financial ambitions as if they were investment banks.

And, as a consequence, many of them displace (divert) the legally-stipulated “premium reserves” (financial provisions to indemnify the losses to insureds and reinsureds) in order to seize additional and unlawful gains out of said reserves.

These insurance and reinsurance companies do the prior by financially reengineering the allocated portions of the premiums designated to pay for covered losses.

As many insurance and reinsurance companies doctor and manipulate the sacred premium reserves, they make extraordinary and illegitimate earnings while loosing great solvency and their ultimate ability to indemnify duly covered losses.

Most insurance and reinsurance companies view themselves as enjoying blood-related “family relationships” with banks, stock market firms and many other private “players” within the financial system.
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Global corporations do not want their corporate insurance policies to be subjected to outright malfeasance and other ups and downs (whether systemic or not) by any “agent” of the financial system, chiefly the insurance and reinsurance companies.

Consequently, management by insurance and reinsurance companies is never beyond-insurance risk management.

Thus, it was insidious mediocrity because this petroleum group’s executives strongly believed that these risks can be stopped before morphing into losses (disruption potentials) if a previous appropriate work was previously designed and in place.

As many governmental agencies and other prominent global corporations, PDVSA did not want a “…financial system…”-driven risk management option. All of these institutions wanted a central and on-site solution through systems approach with the applied omniscience perspective.

Yes, by law and in general, you still need “worker’s compensation,” “directors and officers,” “kidnap and ransom,” “legal expenses,” “product liability” and “life insurance.”

BUT IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND BUSINESS SETTINGS, “…Transformative and Integrative Risk Management…” (explained below) turns corporate and institutional insurance irrelevant and worthless. The great majority of corporate and institutional risks ─ through TAIRM ─ can be optimally managed without insurance and reinsurance. In the process, you are additionally making a huge saving by not paying exaggerated commissions and bonuses to insurance and reinsurance brokers. “Brokers” (“…sales reps…”) of what? Indeed!

We are all professionally and managerially concerned about legalistic and litigious: regulations, frameworks, zeitgeists and Weltanschauungs. But these are not the only perils requiring holistic countermeassuring.

And issues presented by violation of Governance, Compliance and Controls also required a much more holistic countermeassuring.

By way of illustration, only managing issues concerning Governance, Compliance, Controls and Intellectual Property is never ever “…beyond-insurance risk management…”

Nearly all lawyers and economists see “…risk management and insurance…” as a financial and legal approach.

Just about all accountants see “…risk management and insurance…” as a comptroller’s methodology.

The majority of actuaries see “…risk management and insurance…” as a statistical methodology.

Most auditors see “…risk management and insurance…” as a governance and compliance and intellectual property methodology.

To the highest degree, economists and financiers see “…risk management and insurance…” as a financial-transaction methodology.

The great majority of corporate planners see “…risk management and insurance…” as a strategy approach.

Nearly all human resources managers see “…risk management and insurance…” as a psychological approach.

CIOs, CISOs and CTOs, I.T. managers and I.T. risk managers see “…risk management and insurance…” as a computational methodology.

Almost all lawyers, economists, financiers, accountants, business administrators, auditors, corporate planners, actuaries, human resources managers, CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, I.T. managers and I.T. risk managers are not sufficiently right because their focus and pursuit fail to consider the physicist’ and engineer’s all-rounded criteria.
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BEYOND-INSURANCE RISK MANAGEMENT AND TAIRM COMPREHENSIVELY CONSIDER LAWFULNESS (INCLUDING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES), GOVERNANCE, COMPLIANCE, CONTROLS, BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ACCOUNTING, AUDITING, STATISTICS, ACTUARIAL SCIENCES, CORPORATE PLANNING, HUMAN RESOURCES, ECONOMICS AND FINANCE, I.T. AND TECHNOLOGY, AS WELL.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT:

Supplementary, Andres likewise indicates, “…Transformative and Integrative Risk Management (TAIRM) is also implemented in order to prevent technological surprises to the savvy organization seeking this advice and service by TAIRM, but also to create disruptively technological surprises (managerial ‘…Sputnik Moments…’) for the enterprise’s competitors…”

This notion is better understood when the axiom “… strategy is a function of a grander beyond-insurance risk management program and not the other way around…” is fully accepted and practiced.

In one line, Transformative and Integrative Risk Management (TAIRM) is absolutely “Skunkworks,” “Space Age,” “Wargaming” and Technocratic Management. Hence, non-status quo management. While others insist on “…thinking outside the box…” (inconsequential), TAIRM focuses on strong-sense and critico-creative thinking!

To illustrate this function and responsibility better, I.P. takes care of the tangible and intangible integrity of the operating building and corresponding premises and other assets, including the personnel. If one employee is selling secrets of trade or consuming illegal substances, I.P. is watching and acting upon.

I.P. does corporate counterintelligence and operates on it. I.P. incumbents are, for example, also responsible to designing, developing and instituting corporate plans pertaining to emergency preparedness, emergency response, disaster recovery, business restoration (partial function), business continuity (partial function) and business sustainability (partial function) to give you a brief idea.

I.P. also supervises and controls road and air ambulances and other medical and non-medical evacuation systems. I.P. is also responsible for preventive exercises and drills to massive evacuations in case of earthquakes, floods, fires and riots, among other perils.

Transformative and Integrative Risk Management fully contemplates, tackles, advises and operates on instrumental enhancement of the corporate provisions by Integral Protection organizations (sometimes called “departments” and others “divisions”). Have you ever seen an insurance or reinsurance company with these major duties before an organizational client?

And only and partly because of that, insurance and reinsurance companies are, by far, outside of the realm of beyond-insurance risk management and TAIRM.

TAIRM, too, has vast managerial applications for law enforcement and counter-terrorism “activities.” However, the majority of incumbents of public office are in the backyard playing political “games” and don’t possess neither a legitimate interest, nor an appropriate comprehension of techniques and methodologies, conducive to more stable “…national security…” doctrines and policies in actuality.

Many incumbents of public office don’t even have a designated budget to act upon.

Additionally and by way of example, Asian presidents are techies and fluidly communicate on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math issues (that is, STEM careers).

In the mean time, the counterparts in the West are chiefly held hostage to law, sociology and economics, with an overwhelming powerless feeling in technologically advanced conversations. All of this about the heads of state here have been publicly substantiated by Bill Gates.

Please remember: “… THE FUTURE IS NOT AN ECHO OF THE PAST…”

In today’s technologically-driven world, strategic trend evaluation cannot be done using only algorithms.

I do take into account both. I also practice “Analytics” and “Diagnostics” and have nascently become interested on what Cambridge University’ and Royal Society’s Sir Martin Rees, PhD. calls the “…Science of Complexity…”

Once again, TAIRM is vastly more into qualitative analyzes than quantitative analyzes.

You see, every problem has an underlying mechanism. Once you deeply comprehend how it operates, you can influence (via throughput) on the final outcomes (from known inputs to desired outputs) to your continuous advantage.

It can be logically argued that the term “…throughput…” has a Latin language equivalent by the term modus operandi. To this end, GE’s chairman and CEO Jack Welch, PhD. also mentioned, “…To get to the guts of why things happen…”

I have done extensive research globally throughout many places, institutions and years, from the U.S. marketplace, Lloyd’s of London, Swiss RE, Tokyo Marine Group, and way further beyond to make a lengthy story brief.

I have also become directly knowledgeable (not “bookish,” but factual, empirical and as per the educated battlefield practicalities) of beyond-insurance risk management practices by many large, industrial enterprises and agencies such as NASA.

The NASA Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo and the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (Minuteman ICBM) initiative, comprehending that he or she or it cannot take those to the local insurance and reinsurance underwriter, yet these enterprises (management) initiatives have been successfully instituted.
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To further illustrate the above, the Military-Industrial Complex and companies such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin, along with NASA ─ through their own methods ─ were pursuing their projects and programs without resorting to insurance and reinsurance companies at all.

I became knowledgeable with an in-all-truth polymath and an outright “Rocket Scientist,” a physicist, a systems engineer and a doctor in science, who was directly responsible for the reliability concerning: the NASA Projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo. At NASA he was Dr. Wernher von Braun’s right hand! I treasure all of his e-mails, letters and other materials.
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To the utmost enhancement of my fortune, I have, for many years now, worked with the most daring, capricious and enlightened clients (minds) that one can imagine ever.

They all were seeking managerial and industrial “miracles” only (sic). WHILE GIVING THEM THEIR OUTRIGHT MIRACLES, I HAVE EXPERIENCED DRAMATIC OVER-LEARNING EXPERIENCES.

I once met a Scottish executive who told me that beyond-insurance risk management methodology by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Royal Dutch/Shell Group was “…esoteric…” I still treasure his e-mail.

This so-called “esoteric” beyond-insurance risk management approach by DARPA, NASA, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Shell and a multitude of global corporations has been first instituted since the end of the 1950s. It is been in increasing utilization and betterment for about fifty-four years to this date.

What these institutions have successfully performed, transforming global civilizations and progress for Life, is un-apologetically and extremely uncomfortable for traditionalists whose ethos, cosmovisions and belief systems are fixed on the fossilized past and bonded to a myriad of obsolete assumptions, outdated notions and utter fallacies. The number of ignoramuses of supine ignorance is a breathtaking existential risk for humankind to deal with.

To further underpin this statement, I will share Peter Drucker’s quote, “…The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic…” And also that of Dr. Stephen Covey, “…Again, yesterday holds tomorrow hostage .… Memory is past. It is finite. Vision is future. It is infinite. Vision is greater than history…” And that of Sir Francis Bacon, “… He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator …”

And that of London Business School Professor Gary Hamel, PhD., “…You cannot get to a new place with an old map…” And that of Alvin Toffler, “.….The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order…”

And that of Brad Leithauser, “…It reminds us that, in our accelerating, headlong era, the future presses so close upon us that those who ignore it inhabit not the present but the past …”

And that of Robert Kennedy, “…The future is not a privilege but a perpetual conquest…”

And that of Thomas Friedman, “…People are always [and wrongfully] assuming that everything that is going to be invented must have been invented already. But it hasn’t…” THIS QUOTATION IS HUGELY IGNORED.

ON THE FINAL ANALYSIS, WE MUST READILY ACCEPT FORCEFUL NOVEL REALITIES INSTANTANEOUSLY.

Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus of Visa International, stated: “…The problem is never how to get new innovative thoughts into your mind, BUT HOW TO GET OLD ONES OUT …”

As you know, Japanese corporations and institutions are into intensive Kaisen and Toyota Production System (TPS). Regarding advanced quality assurance and continuous improvement, these approaches have been demonstrated indispensable. But their practitioners are always attempting to manage risks through said approaches without any success.

TPS is also known as “…Thinking People System…”

Toyota’s CFO and the Production Director have their jaws dropped ─ while being observed by their own Chairman and CEO ─ when I carefully demonstrated to them the flaws of Kaisen and TPS in managing risks compared to the ample breadth and depth of scope by the “..Transformative and Integrative Risk Management…” (TAIRM).

Although they were in a major technical bewilderment, they hired me (as Mitsubishi Motors did before) to institute the advanced risk management of a self-funded and self-administered health-care benefit program for some seven-hundred Toyota employees and their respective eligible dependents. Both cases were turnkey undertakings.

TNT Express’ engagement was the implementation of advanced risk management of a self-funded and self-administered health-care benefit program for some five-hundred TNT Express employees and their respective eligible dependents. It was a turnkey undertaking.

Regarding a regional state, I implemented beyond-insurance risk management of a self-funded and self-administered and universal health-care benefit program for some 700,000 citizens (beneficiaries).

TAIRM has been extensively instituted ─ regarding numerous industrial and operational risks ─ in many petroleum joint ventures by corporations such as Shell, Statoil, Exxon, Mobil, BP, Conoco, ENI and Chevron, among others.

Global corporations are greatly into beyond-insurance risk management.

TAIRM seriously considers and utilizes, among many other systems, every Western and Eastern quality assurance methodologies (both from civilian and military spheres).
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Subsequently, I expanded, revised and enhanced greatly this practice, after twenty-one years of applied experience, and carefully designed, developed and created my own proprietary methodology and professional, trade secret, “…Transformative and Integrative Risk Management…” (TAIRM) back in 2005 (continually updated and upgraded to date).

a) “…HUMAN KNOWLEDGE IS DOUBLING EVERY TEN YEARS [AS PER THE 1998 STANDARDS]…” [*]

b) “…COMPUTER POWER IS DOUBLING EVERY EIGHTEEN MONTHS. THE INTERNET IS DOUBLING EVERY YEAR. THE NUMBER OF DNA SEQUENCES WE CAN ANALYZE IS DOUBLING EVERY TWO YEARS…” [*]

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

END OF CITATION.

[*] All citations and quotations are from the Futuretronium Book.

NOTWITHSTANDING, THE HUMAN RACE MUST DECIDE WHICH DETERMINATION TO MAKE ABOUT SAID FORCES QUICKLY.

To the end above, Prof. Gary Hamel, Ph.D. argued, “…Denial is tragic. Delay is deadly …” And Albert Einstein determined, “…It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity … We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.…”

And Dr. Aubrey de Grey, PhD. establishes, “…To solve a very complicated problem, you generally need a fairly complicated solution [in advance]…”

Churchill observed that we must get prepared when we cannot predict. Hence, we need to discern the dynamic (driving) forces reshaping the present and future and their impacts on our industries and organizations and professions TODAY.

This we, all managers, must do daily without a fail (and increasingly so).
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The “…increasingly so…” MUST be nonlinear and supremely exponential. According to mathematics, nonlinear entails, “…not in a straight line…” (that is, that “grows” geometrically or exponentially).

Stated simply, nonlinear growth equates to most unevenly explosive growth.

“…Here and Now…” is, put simply, the endless entry point into the future.

As a result, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus commented, “…Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present …”

And as a consequence, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche indicated, “…It’s our future that lays down the law of our today…” NIETZSCHE IS HEREWITH SUGGESTING THAT THE PRESENT IS A FUNCTION OF THE FUTURE.

Whatever is happening in the West, China is, at the moment and by way of example, drastically booming.

As an important point to note, the Futurist Gerald Celente advises, “…If you don’t attack the future [today], the future will attack you…” And John Galsworthy said, “…If you don’t think about the future, you cannot have one.…”
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Now, we must concentrate, as a laser-beam pointing precision, on the upsides by the Technological Singularity as well as the downsides by the Disruptional Singularity.

To have a quick and ready look into the future today, one can also ─ free of any obligations ─ join the Forum “…Becoming Aware of the Futures…” at http://lnkd.in/WUm7zA

Or one can also ─ free of any obligations ─ join the Forum “…Future Awareness…” at http://lnkd.in/bjg9UDd

Or one can also ─ free of any obligations ─ join the Forum “…The Disruptional Singularity…” at http://lnkd.in/dXgRkAT

As a manager to me so-called “…insurance…” is not “risk protection” but a financial device that just PARTLY indemnifies you from SOME losses and ONLY SOMETIMES.

AND “LOSS INDEMNITY” IS NEVER RISK MANAGEMENT.

In my case, a loss (disruption potential) is the un-managed and uncontrolled unleashing of pent-up energy. Once pent-up energy is unleashed, it can create (upside risks) or destruct (downside risks).

To cope with the future is to cope with changed changes (upside risks and downside risks) today. And the entirety of the planet is inundated with massive, increasing changed changes.

All incumbents and practitioners must perceive that management is turning itself into a highly scientific field and practice without a fail. Believe it or not, management is literally going into applied “…Rocket Science…”

By way of example, the expression “…Keep It Simple, Stupid…” has been radically replaced by “…Keep It Scientific, Savant…”

And notions as those of Thomas Paine’s “…common sense…” are now absurd and rendered ineffectual and counterproductive by representatives of institutions such as DARPA, NASA, MIT and Stanford University.

Common sense is radically replaced by SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.

So called “…out of the box…” thinking is impious and outrageous mediocrity by the 21st-century standards and practices.

“…Out of the box…” thinking will bankrupt you easily.
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And the “…power of simplicity…,” unless is applied by a consummated polymath, is a chat about rubbish.

Managing is an art, practice, technology and science.

Change is going abusively “…auto…” and “…techno…” and “…in vivo…” and “…infotech…” and “…cyborg…” and “…digital…” and “… neuro…” and “…bio…” and “…transbio…” and “…nano…” and “…nanotech…” I am not afraid to proclaim.

BEYOND THE MANAGERIAL CHALLENGES (DOWNSIDE RISKS) PRESENTED BY THE EXPONENTIAL TECHNOLOGIES AS IT IS UNDERSTOOD IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY AND ITS INHERENT FUTURISTIC FORCES IMPACTING THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE NOW, THERE ARE ALSO SOME GRAVE GLOBAL RISKS THAT MANY FORMS OF MANAGEMENT HAVE TO TACKLE WITH IMMEDIATELY.

THESE GRAVE GLOBAL RISKS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ADVANCED SCIENCE OR TECHNOLOGY. MANY OF THESE HAZARDS STEM FROM NATURE AND SOME ARE, AS WELL, MAN MADE. FOR INSTANCE, THESE GRAVE GLOBAL RISKS ─ EMBODYING THE DISRUPTIONAL SINGULARITY ─ ARE GEOLOGIC, CLIMATOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, GEOPOLITICAL, DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL, ETHICAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL, LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL, AMONG OTHERS.

THE DISRUPTIONAL SINGULARITY’S MAJOR RISKS ARE GRAVELY THREATENING US RIGHT NOW, NOT LATER.

Vast hazards by the Disruptional and Technological Singularities are the combined downsides by and to the globalization.

New science and its intrinsic risks are further discussed herewith. Please see the following accordingly:

Sir Martin Rees, Ph.D. noticed, “…Science is emphatically not, as some have claimed, approaching its end; it is surging ahead at an accelerating rate. We are still flummoxed about the bedrock nature of physical reality, and the complexities of life, the brain, and the cosmos. New discoveries, illuminating all these mysteries, will engender benign applications; but will also pose NEW ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND BRING NEW HAZARDS. How will we balance the multifarious prospective benefits from genetics, robotics, or nanotechnology against the risk (albeit smaller) of triggering utter disaster? .… Science is advancing faster than ever, and on a broader front: bio-, cyber- and nanotechnology all offer exhilarating prospects; so does the exploration of space. BUT THERE IS A DARK SIDE: NEW SCIENCE CAN HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES; IT EMPOWERS INDIVIDUALS TO PERPETRATE ACTS OF MEGATERROR; EVEN INNOCENT ERRORS COULD BE CATASTROPHIC. THE ‘DOWNSIDE’ FROM TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY COULD BE GRAVER AND MORE INTRACTABLE THAN THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR DEVASTATION THAT WE HAVE FACED FOR DECADES. AND HUMAN-INDUCED PRESSURES ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT MAY ENGENDER HIGHER RISKS THAT THE AGE-OLD HAZARDS OF EARTHQUAKES, ERUPTIONS, AND ASTEROID IMPACTS…”
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To underpin the motion by Sir Martin Rees, see also the following.

The term [technological] singularity entered the popular science culture with the 1993 presentation at the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30–31, 1993, by Professor of Mathematics Vernor Vinge (San Diego University).

Correspondingly, Professor Vinge, PhD. indicated, “…Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended … Is such progress avoidable? If not to be avoided, can events be guided so that we may survive? These questions are investigated. Some possible answers [and some further dangers] are presented…”

An even deeper exploration on existential risks is better achieved through the reading of the following three materials:

1.- “…Our Final Hour: A Scientist’s Warning…” By Sir Martin Rees, PhD. at http://lnkd.in/bHkBp4S

2.- “…Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios…” By Professor Nick Bostrom, PhD. at http://lnkd.in/RsNRmm

3.- “…Prophets of Doom…” available at http://lnkd.in/bfpzAdx

THEREFORE, PRACTITIONERS AND INCUMBENTS FORCEFULLY NEED TO MOST URGENTLY AND CONCURRENTLY MANAGE A MYRIAD OF GLOBAL RISKS IN PARALLEL (SIMULTANEOUSLY) BY BOTH THE DISRUPTIONAL SINGULARITY AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL SINGULARITY. THIS IS ULTIMATELY AND DESPERATELY IMPORTANT!

ADDITIONAL MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES. PLEASE NOTICE THESE THREE PIECES:

There is, by way of example and for your consideration of increasing challenges to the management practitioner, this publication, “…Oxford Study – Half of U.S. Jobs Could Be Done by Computers…” At http://lnkd.in/b8mHPpG . Still, even more pervasive challenges to the management profession.

And there is also this article: “…Big nanotech: an unexpected future. How we deal with atomically precise manufacturing will reframe the future for human life and global society…” At http://lnkd.in/bd742Nh

And there is also this article: “…Is Your Job Under Threat From ROBOTS?.…Office Jobs Could Vanish By 2018…” At http://lnkd.in/difDxRd

Consequently, Dr. Gary Hamel, PhD. indicates, “…What distinguishes our age from every other is not the world-flattening impact of communications, not the economic ascendance of China and India, not the degradation of our climate, and not the resurgence of ancient religious animosities. RATHER, IT IS A FRANTICALLY ACCELERATING PACE OF CHANGE…”
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CONCLUSIONS

1.- Given the vast amount of insidious risks, futures, challenges, principles, processes, contents, contexts, practices, tools, techniques, benefits, rewards and opportunities, there needs to be a full-bodied practical and applicable methodology (methodologies are utilized and implemented to solve complex problems and to facilitate the decision-making and anticipatory process).

6.- Always institute beyond-insurance risk management as you boldly integrate it with your futuring skill / expertise.

7.- In my firmest opinion, the following must be complied this way (verbatim): the corporate strategic planning and execution (performing) are a function of a grander application of beyond-insurance risk management. It will never work well the other way around. TAIRM is the optimal mode to do advanced strategic planning and execution (performing).

Accordingly, Dr. Carl Sagan, PhD. expressed, “…We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows about science and technology…” And Edward Teller stated, “…The science of today is the technology of tomorrow …”

10.- In any profession, beginning with management, one must always and cleverly upgrade his / her learning and education until the last exhale.

An African proverb argues, “…Tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it…” And Winston Churchill established, “…The empires of the future are the empires of the mind…” And an ancient Chinese Proverb: “…It is not our feet that move us along — it is our minds…”

INCIDENTALLY, EVERY REALITY BEFORE THE MANAGER MUST BE BROUGHT UNDER OPTIMAL CONTROL.

As it ensues:

First! Once you realize that the most important thing to nurture is the rotational-and-translational motion revolting within and beyond the innermost core of / by you, you can do your ethics and morality. Now you have conquered bridge 1. Conquering this foundational pillar also implies that every facet and phase of your personal and professional life will be carried on with dogged solemnity.

Second! Once you do your ethics and morality, you can do your actionable knowledge for Life. Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 2 for Life.

Third! Once your actionable knowledge is done by you, you can do your corporate planning and respective marshaled strategy. Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 3 for Life.

Fourth! Once your corporate planning and respective marshaled strategy is done by you, you can do your systems hazard management. Now you have conquered and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 4 for Life.
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Fifth! Once your systems hazard management is done by you, you can do your systems quality assurance management. Now you have conquered and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 5 for Life.

Sixth! Once your cross-functional, interdisciplinary systems quality assurance management is done by you, you can do your systems reliability engineering. Now you have conquered and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 6 for Life.

Seventh! Once your systems reliability engineering is done by you, you can do your systems risk management. Now you have conquered and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 7 for Life.

Eighth! Once your systems risk management — with the applied omniscience perspective — is done by you, you can do your contingency planning lavishly (with thousand layers of redundancy in place) for Life. Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 8 for Life.

Ninth! When your contingency planning is done by you, you can do your benefits (upsides and downsides). Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 9 for Life.
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Tenth! When benefits are done by you and you become hyper-engaged into pervasively transformational self-renewal and self-challenging (in excelsis) of your own intellect, you can do your sustainability perpetually. Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 10 for Life.

Eleventh! Now you can conceive and design your own profession and tenure while concentrating in capturing womb-to-tomb (so-called) “…success…” and its gargantuan sustainability effort. Now you have conquered, and will be, as follows, securing control of bridge 11 for Life.

Twelfth! Neither “…the secret,…”, nor the “…hidden secret,…”, nor the “…discrete secret…,” or any “…magnificent marketing stunts…” will warrant the oxygen and energy and vision that your mind, body, and souls require (sic). Now you have conquered management for Life.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 — 1821) declared, “…No longer it is question simply of education … NOW IT BECOMES A MATTER OF ACQUIRING SCIENCE…”

THE MANAGER’S HYPOTHETICAL BLUEPRINT TO PRACTICAL SUCCESS CAPTURING:

(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. (69) Figure out exactly which neurons to make synapses with. (70) Wire up synapses the soonest. (71) Ask now more sophisticated questions to marshal upon.…”
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David, commented simply to you and by me:

“…I am no longer a captive to history.
Whatever I can imagine, I can accomplish.

I am no longer a vassal in a faceless
bureaucracy, I am an activist, not a drone.

I am no longer a foot soldier
in the march of progress.

I am a Revolutionary!…”

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Mr. Andres Agostini
Author of:
The Future of Scientific Management, Today!
The Future of Skunkworks Management, Now!
Futuretronium Book!
Superthinking!
Transformative and Integrative Risk Management!

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Here’s a thought experiment inspired by the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI): Suppose in our search for beings in other galaxies, we come across a species that looks very much like us and can communicate with us reasonably well, so that it doesn’t take very long for them to understand what we’re about. In other words, they are definitely within our sphere of spontaneous sympathy. Moreover they even possess technologies that we consider relatively advanced, such as mobile phones. (After all, how else could we have recognised them as intelligent beings?) At the same time, however, they also tend to live half as long as we do – and for reasons that are quite obvious to us because they lack the sort of societal infrastructure that would enable them to live longer.

To be sure, these beings think that their lives are perfectly fine, aside from spates of internecine strife that seem to be fuelled by alien sources (perhaps the same aliens that enabled us to discover them). In any case, their culture is designed around the way they have conducted their lives for centuries. The question is whether we should violate Star Trek’s Prime Directive and substantially intervene to provide them with an infrastructure that would allow them to live longer and perhaps flourish in a way that would go beyond the sort of superficial trade relations that currently mark our maintenance of a ‘respectful’ distance from them. Here are some options:

1. No matter the cost to them or us, ‘civilising’ these aliens is an end worth pursuing in its own right – even if it ends up a gallant failure.
2. We can’t really afford much backlash from the natives, especially given that backups from Earth will not be forthcoming. So, we need to tread carefully, perhaps envisaging a long-term strategy of cultivating natives over several generations.
3. We commit to leaving the natives with some care packages and a time-limited run of advisors whose mission is to get them to use those packages as effectively as possible, so that eventually they can produce their contents for themselves.
4. We simply obey the Prime Directive and deal with them as free market traders without any particular concern for how they end up using whatever the both of us agree to have been a fair exchange of goods.

Now let us think about planet Earth, where we have the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights – and not the Prime Directive – as our guiding normative principle. Clearly, (4) would be seen as a libertarian dys/utopia that would render the Declaration irrelevant (though it may well capture China’s current policy towards the Third World), whereas (3) would be seen as the default position of most development aid. I have advocated (2) as Imperialism 2.0, and of course classic Imperialism is captured by (1).

Just as the sixteenth century European conquistadors thought they were about to discover lands of great wealth and potential superiority to what they had experienced in their homelands, our own interstellar voyagers may be subject (occasionally at least) to a rude awakening, for which we need a policy. And perhaps considering such a policy might help us to think more clearly about the aliens on our own planet – i.e. those in need of ‘development’.

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