The Prophetic Backbone - an eBook

Many tech firms introduce technologies and new products to the world with subtle ideological inferences to behaviorism, beginning with predictions and leaving us with absolutes. Companies make and sell products, disrupters challenge the status-quo and prophets proclaim the future of humankind.
At the core of human nature we create and innovate - this eBook is pro-innovation. But the operations of creating and subsequently proclaiming the future of humanity can only be explained as ideological. Anyone can proclaim the future. Eternity is already claimed.

As rich multinational tech corporations accumulate our health data and genomes, their vision is to control behaviors in an all-things-digital-healthcare network. The long-flowing river of future promises coming from outspoken futurists, scientists and tech leaders may actually cast our societies into a structured, oppressive and unethical existence. Our bodies and thoughts are slowly becoming pure information -  the prophetic data on a global AI network - understood by no one.

[excerpts] The imperative in the corporate world is to project a necessary contribution to the Sharing Economy using products stamped with a "Seal of Approval" for advancing universal data integration of personal information.

The corporate perception of genomes is presuming vastly improved human intelligence that will produce far-advanced products able to fulfill the new “ethos of inevitability”. When applying neuroscience to justify genetic quality in DNA data correlating to entrepreneurial traits, wealth creators, disruptive technology inventors, emotional intelligence of leaders and a whole host of progressive cultural definitions - business is instilling a biological correlation to otherwise learned employee skills and experience.

Human Bio-Data is becoming the new technology backbone – literally, the human nervous system that will be analyzed for driving research and development leading to profitable neural-sensory products. The brain is the most accessible, most mysterious and most inspiring organ of the body – one that all scientific disciplines are seeking to replicate in some fashion, notably, through artificial intelligence and cognitive computing.

A subtle ideology insists all new innovation and futuristic  technologies comprise the only pathway by which we can build solutions for a troubled world. This exclusivity being the presumption of tech elitists - only their technology businesses can solve our greatest human issues.

The ideological perspective is this: if we can change humans, we should change humans, we will change human behaviors.

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from: The Prophetic Backbone eBook

Business platforms of the enterprise kind evolve, change, expand and merge. All this leads to systems integration too often and IT laborers from all around the globe cycling in and out the door with new skills. The bottom line is that enterprise integration projects cost millions per year as do security, managing service level agreements, labor, mitigating states of non-maintenance as well as predicting zero-day scenarios when cyber criminal's attack.

Endless complexity needs a new model, a simplified IT model and what better system of miraculous functionality to call upon than the brain. We have a lot of solving of global problems to move on. Technologists agree that complexity can be reduced with AI, but AI is never going to be as beautiful as the brain. When we see the word “robot” in stories, our mind instantly thinks “job loss” whether true or false.  I agree that the actual functioning brain could be a substantial model for IT networks and many firms like Numenta work entirely in that model.

On the other end of the neuro-spectrum are businesses and universities that want to replicate, augment, insert or "manage" some particular brain function hoping to reshape intelligent IT management. AI, due to many uncertain factors like chips availability, water availability, workforce availability - face the reality of the increase of data getting out of control. They too, the inteligencia, believe that people-labor can and should be eliminated while funding the design and building of the last remaining neuro-technology: true brain "intelligence." 

I do not believe in the second nature of progress, which is to reverse engineer the human nervous system in order to define a new IT model that runs humans instead of humans running the systems.
RPW 2021
The Prophetic Backbone. Technology, Future and Eternity

Think digitally, act organically.
  Think organically, act digitally.
Share your medical prognosis.
  Protect your electronic health record.
Buy a mail-order DNA kit today.
  Wait for pharmacogenomics.
The Earth’s seas are rising. Time is short. 
  Breathe, breathe in the air. Don’t be afraid to care.

If you could hold all digital technology in your hands, collect all the data each produced, run it through predictive AI, spread out the new solutions on a large boardroom table for corporate coders and analysts, technologists, futurists, engineers and geneticists alike – what might they conclude? 
Would they promote more “public discussions”, advocate more local activism and national policy, share their new resources to enable equality, promise more truth and transparency, reduce their CO2 footprints? Or, has 21st century precedent been reset to move forward into human-robot integration, neuro-dominance and artificial thought translation, re-engineered humans and the chip  implant? After all, DNA has quickly become a business asset to tech firms. So has the brain.

Every day two diametrically opposing futures ride the currents flowing in life. A fully algorithmic future is vastly short on actual timing; are they talking about 20 years or 100? But in actuality, the promises in Matthew chapter 24 of the Bible are both: the present and the future time whether we act digitally or organically, politically or socially, empathetically or radically. 
In big tech, in big healthcare, in big government, in big university labs, yet in tiny molecules of blood  - the natural rivers of human evolution and creation presumed hidden within DNA and the brain vie for the prophetically proclaimed future. 

The Prophetic Backbone is available at amazon.com/author/robpwaters

Leaders, besides pivoting and innovating and disrupting – are having to carry on some future-casting. It's as if they are jumping into a swimming pool with marketing and IT visionaries and claiming they've seen the ocean.
From a marketing department’s perspective future is like a mystical infrastructure, networks that resolve issues predictively, the cloud of global unity, a tapped reservoir of human intelligence; it breathes on visions. The IT technicians’ stories read differently: interoperability, service level agreements, risk assessment, security, disaster preparedness, vendor management. 

Increasingly, technology firms prefer a pitch about their products that conveys, “We’ve got more than just your back - we’ve got your future too”. The problem with proclaiming the next future is that it's become a hiring problem as well. Business has to find managers, sales people and IT workers to deliver marketing's futurist narratives. In the depths of the Great Recession, a new realm of psychology+neuroscience software product surfaced in HR. The HR objective associated with these narratives was, in one regard, impossible to fulfill without psychological testing complimented by neurologic assessment.  The solution was found within psychometrics - an algorithmic software solution that would expose deeper thoughts that shaped one’s values and therefore, behaviors that could reliably be certain to uphold the firm's future-casting. When a job candidate's behavioral tests benchmarked positive - HR found a winner!

The fog-covered valley that job seekers enter called the hiring process is about HR trusting in analytics, psycho-analytics and behaviorism. It isn’t the IT leadership or managers calling for psychometrics, it isn’t the CEO; it's HR's frantic response to pivoting and disrupting and... [the future]. 
At the end of the day a CEO’s story is that he or she can’t find skilled workers. The US has a 63% actively participating workforce which means there are plenty of people out there if business will put aside their artificial intelligence in HR and get back to God-given intelligence, intuition, trust and honesty about a future we are all pivoting toward.
 Robert Waters
The Only Fields blog