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Letters to Obama

The links in this column will bring you to my letters to to US presidential candidate Barack Obama.

When I look through my "digital lens," and look at the United States of America, this is what I see.

There will be new letters at least through August 2008.

 

 

 

THE THINK-SHOP:

"Looking Beyond the Radar

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Is your mind ready to innovate?

You follow trends? Or follow the trend-WATCHERS? Listen to extrapolations of things from the past or the present?

What if the present isn't what you think it is? What if your understanding of the world around you is wrong? Chances are you live in the wrong reality. 

If so, your thinking about the future might be useless. Your "brainstorming" sessions about the right strategy for your organization, the efforts of your innovation teams about new products and services, your assumptions about custoemr expections - all wrong.

Come, and shake up your mind to open it up to a new reality. Let me paint a different present for you. Let's talk about the singularity we have entered and the digital world that lays ahead.

Together, let us look beyond the obvious of the radarscreens. They only show a past on its road to irrelevance.

Don't stay behind. Innovate your thinking about today before you try to innovate tomorrow. 

Join me and Look Beyond the Radar.

THE THINKSHOP: in Keynote or seminar formats.

Interested? 

Email me

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A new Window on the world:

We are entering a singularity of reality. The emerging digital reality is taking over the role of the physical reality as the source of information that shapes our understanding of the world. That changes the very architecture of our brains, and with that: the WAY WE THINK. I gave that new realtiy the name DIGEALITY. Because it is not a point in time, but a process akin to a crossing, I named that singularity the XIngularity (so that you do not confuse it with Ray Kurzweil's 'singularity').

It is my deep belief that in a world of technology, technology no longer makes the difference. Our human minds will make the difference.

Second, we are going to need all the technology we can muster, and that will launch us as humans to create that difference.

If you believe that the 'future can do without us', as Bill Joy proclaimed in his provocative 2001 'Wired' article, you might be interested in reading"why the future needs us".

Or, if you believe that the future will be created by intelligent machines? A future where smiling, laughing, loving, crying and fighting human beings are kept in a human zoo, you might want to read "Three questions for Ray Kurzweil".

Or - on the other hand - if you believe that high-technology just produces 'another bunch' of gadgets that do not alter the way we think, I invite you to read "The forgotten singularity".

If, however, you believe that the future needs us, and that human knowledge is the richest source to make better futures, you might share my deep belief in human creativity, intuition and imagination. This belief is the basis for my my work as a consultant, author and speaker.

When you're ready to look beyond the next quarter, when you realize that Innovation can not be switched on by decree, when you're looking to transform the mindset of your organization, and you wish to look BEYOND the radar, I'm looking forward to be at your service.

Jan Amkreutz,

 

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Predictions 

May 2008

About the Presidential elections 2008

the following reflects my personal intuition of the chances of the 3 candidates to win the elections. I'll post a new estimate every month

 May 1 '08  
 McCain 10% 
 Obama  70%
 Clinton  20%

 April 1 '08  
 McCain 10% 
 Obama  80%
 Clinton  10%

 

 

April 2008

About the English language

1) By establishing itself as the global business language, English will succeed Latin to become the next dead language.

2) The US will become officially multi-lingual before 2020. This will be part of an attempt to keep the Union together.

January 2008:

immortality

1) Within the next 50 years immortality will be attainable, and the first people to be immortal will be alive. for everybody alive today true immortality is not in the picture, because our digital twins have not matured yet.

2) Immortality will be redefined within 2 decades. Not the biology of our body will be the most important issue however (we'll be able to renew our body at will through -modified- cloning), but the repository of mental experiences of the individual over a lifetime will. This repository will be assembled and maintained by our digital twins, who are to become the realsubstance of our immortality.

October 2007

1) With the introduction of the birth-control drug in the 1960's the conception of children started to become a conscious human choice. Once this choice is available to everybody around the planet, abortion of a healthy fetus will become a capital crime. This will happen before 2062, the 100th birthday of the 'medicine'.

2) However, by 2050, the death-penalty for such capital crimes will only be excecuted on a temporary basis by deactivating the digital twin of the criminal for a limited period of time. Thi most cruel of all punishments will only be applied in a few remaining radical 'zero tolerance' comunities.

Predictions

September 2007

1) By 2015, the first global community takes shape that will offer 'citizenship' independent of where the members live; this is the beginning of the end of the governing role of nation states; most nation-states will become service areas under contract from various global communities

2) By 2050, cloning after death will be a common practice; our digital twins will form the bridge between the clones. Cloning before death will only be permitted when terminally ill.

Predictions August 2007

1) The catholic church initiates the most profound re-translation of the bible in 2020. This is a consequence of the extensive modelling of the history of the Middle East since Abraham. This is done in the virtual world created by 2nd Life at a cost of 2 billion Euro.

2) The "phone" is dead. The i-phone rings the bell for the last round of the phone, and the first round of 'natural interfaces' to 'digeality' (see papers from the world future society 2007 elsewhere)

Predictions July 2007

1) By 2015 we will have health and life insurance for our digital twins.

2) The United States will be officially multi-lingual by 2015. This will happen under the threat of California leaving the Union. This will happen anyway, before California's bicentennial celebration in 2046.

Predictions June 2007

1) The conception of children through sex will be considered irresponsible before 2025, simply because the method is too risky to produce healthy children; sex will no longer be a procreational tool. Within a decade later, using sex to produce children will be a crime.

2) Most of the big telecomunnications companies will become irrelevant before 2015, simply because they fight the wrong competitors.

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Opinion:

When I look at nature to see reality, I see constant expansion - of intelligence and of diversity- along the arrow of time - from the Big Bang onward;

When I look to science to explain what reality is, I see constant progress, in depth and in scope, along the arrow of time, from the Big Bang onward, and even before that;

When I look to religion to explain why reality is, I don't see expansion or progress; even the arrow of time, that deepest mystery of them all, is altogether missing. What if God is behind the arrow of time?

 

"Digital" Observation:

Intelligent digital recipees perform the majority of trades on the New York Stock-market these days, not human beings. Who constitues the 'market', I wonder? A community of sopisticated machines? Does that mean the market is predictable? And does that mean somebody can change 'market-mechanisms?'

 

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