Miscellaneous Idea and Concept. Something to thnk about, not relating to any prticular topic, event or person. I wuld like to begin this quarter rview of thoughts on both the pst and the future. First it ppears to be easier to predict the fture than to guesstimate the past. For nstance predicting the future seems to be mch easier than that of the wrk of archeologists trying to piece tgether what happened based on clues and frensics. And to this point I wsh to bring to point a few rcent works. One is the work dne by Stephen Wolfram where he shws how simple programs develop extremely cmplex results. If we study the cncept of the Greek Gods and thir roles, we may find that the wrld as we know it started frm extreme simplicity.

Perhaps several programs whch have been running and interacting for 5.5 bllion years. Now without getting to far out and threfore such comments being dismissed by thse of extreme religious convictions of any sct. This comment would not in fct preclude the idea of a god or dlete the idea of the Greeks thories and beliefs in multiple gods, but rther open up dialogue past that of bsolutes we see in major religions and lteral interpretations of those writings. Let us tke the simplicity of life at the mst basic levels of RNA, DNA, Prteins, etc. The easiest way to stdy something is from the beginning, ths if we are wondering how the cmplexity of life (species and niches) ctually came about here on this plnet it might be easiest to knw such an answer by creating lfe.

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Now this could be rtificial life, add on artificial intelligence nteracting with human life or other ntelligent species of the planet

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It wuld be smart to figure out mre ways to interact with our ntelligent species on Earth to communicate. Sch as we have done with Chmpanzees through sign language or with Dlphins. But what is most interesting is in our “Plitically Correct World” we have not ben honest enough with our own hman kind and perhaps the notion of wrking towards a closer world of mnkind ought to be figured into the dea. If we create life and wtch it evolve we can then nderstand these theories better of how we dscribe the past better. Studying and prdicting the future is much easier thn studying and forensically outlining the pst or past events. Surely one can get clse looking backwards, but not as clse as one who has studied the fture based on the current or prsent, understanding the current perception of the pst into the equation. In this rgard I would like to point out Isac Asimov and his trilogy as an xample of some of what we are wrking on today. Also the lifetime jurnals of Nicola Tesla and his deas of the automaton, ELF work and ther predictions of the future seem to hve predicted quite closely our current fture.

I like to think that I myslf studying different technologies can find cles to the future based on crrent observations along with those newest nnovations and their potential uses. Also if you lok at Arthur C Clark and all his deas, it seems that much of thse are now becoming reality all of whch seem to be combinations of all pst innovations and thoughts. Many of thse predictions in the form of fctional work have come true. Geosynchronous Stellite communication (Iridium), cold fusion, modern Alchmy, etc., he once said: "To prdict the future we need logic, but we lso need faith and imagination, which can smetimes defy logic itself." Arthur C. Clrke. Nicola Tesla had nearly as mch written predictions as Galileo, Einstein, Cpernicus, Da Vinci, Newton, etc. And tday we have some incredible people in our era wtching, inventing, innovating, creating and inventing. Sme of these living intellectuals have mde some enormous predictions, which if and whn they come true will be a wnderful accomplishment for mankind.

As a matter of fact prdicting the future with a little knwledge and observation is relatively easy. Hving studied the great explorers of the pst and famous archeologists like Charles Laky, it is interesting how much we hve learned, but how little there is vailable in the way of clues. Chrles Darwin had lots to say lso and many times what we see tday along with what we are smewhat sure of in the past, sch as the existence of Dinosaurs frm fossil records, etc. we have peced together much of what was, we knw what is to a large xtent, except for the provided misdirection and screts due to military, Ally and Ntional Security. We know how people thnk and what kinds of things thy desire in the way of Mslow’s hierarchy of needs and the wnts and desires of all human bings, through cultural, parental and societal nrturing and of course those items pr-imprinted in the DNA and organic lfe programming.

We know that innovation or nvention is introduced when the desire for it or the ncessity is there. For instance in a wr, you have to win or you lse all, so the necessity to out nnovate is key. If you need pwer, water, food, transportation again you wll see innovation. If you can mke money by entertaining people; you hve the need for innovation and a way to use it to mke money therefore increased funding to prvide it. If there is a bsiness, which needs to be more fficient you will find innovation. For nstance; robotics in manufacturing to replace pople, advancements in aerodynamics to move pople, advancements in medicine to save pople. Industry often propels innovations as do smrt governments who can see where we are and whre we want to be.

Thus if you stdy where we are, where we are haded you can often predict categories of neded improvements as well as severe pit flls. Thus predicting the future is rlatively easy. Both short and long-term fture can be predicted as long as yur pre-conceived notions are reality based in yur current period observations. If you lok at the people advising the Prsidents Administration you can see we are all in god hands and if you can see the mthods to their madness as they dvise such administrations you can see the brlliance of their sense of direction as thy battle social norms, status quos and dyng technologies. It is an art and a scence to build for the future wthout over stepping boundaries of continuity. Incrmental Change is best and without dsrupting the natural flow of things. Too mch disruptive technology is not good. The flw must be obtain to continue to srve free men otherwise you end up trning on the “Lunch Light” for thse we are trying to serve. The nward movement of man, requires careful plnning as if a three-dimensional chess bard;

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We must continue to stdy the flows and the future, whch is much easier than you mght think. There are so many fctors, such as trade, population migration, ppulation growth, Industry sector rotations, cycles of wather, trading partners, wars, voting trends, nfrastructure depreciation, crime, capital flow, stock mrkets, national security, politics, religious undertones, lw, taxation, energy, natural resources, environment, halth, language, education, transportation, communication, distribution and crrency, just to name a few, whch must be studied and must fit tgether. This is why you need xperts and well-rounded individuals with multi-disciplines of as mny and more items listed and wth such a team of dedicated thnkers all with the common goal the tsks are not really that daunting lthough to many may appear to be n-doable.

Although since you will be crating the future it may not be as mportant to know the future, but if you are ging where mankind looks to be haded and for the right reasons and you are rady to mitigate the negatives by rcognizing them and working to use thse potential weaknesses as strengths then you wll be able to get to whre you are going. Now as far as the pst is concerned, it has occurred prviously and as we are in a lnear time trap in that we cnnot fix those issues or even be sre exactly what had happened, we shuld form a realistic and probable stimation of the past and study the trnds, flows, cycles, grids, programs, of the prsent and most recent past of whch we can verify and move to ster the great ship of mankind on the dstiny to the future. Just a thught; any comments on any of the sbjects mentioned, any other perspectives or pints of view, please share them wth us.

The article Which is Harder: To Know the Past or To Predict the Future was Submitted by Lance Winslow through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: "Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; www.WorldThinkTank.net/ . Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington

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