We drove our daughter to college and after all the setting-up and figuring-out of the ways and means of day one, we hugged her with a flow of goodbye tears. Her mom made an interesting departing comment, “Don’t let them ever change who you are or your heart.”
 
Later, I thought about this exhortation. Our daughter, since the moment she could handle toys and objects, was able to step into her imagination without us leading her. She was developing her fierce imagination, day after day; it’s who she was and still is as a new college student. It was her joy to imagine the social aspect of groups of toy objects, Disney dolls and dollhouses with play characters living as if real. They would talk, move about, shop, dress-up, and sleep – everything real, hour after hour. Positioning was fundamental; how she arranged characters together in her toy houses.

You know my question already. How’s your fierce imagination playing out?  I’m only asking because, like air in our lungs, we have unique imaginations able to breathe life to our aspirations. There's another reason if I’m being honest. That is, the ongoing narrative surrounding employment where we most often project imagination is acting-out battlefield scenarios where the new cultural scientists, digital technologists and psychological health assessors join forces to profile workers.  Genomic profiling could only be the next flank to strategically surround a job candidate - it's not far off.

So much programmable science and brain theory aligning intelligence to pure brain functions, is forcing companies to re-evaluate skills and education and experiences. Here, I'm referring to the enterprise software used by colleges and by HR, all mere algorithmic analysis tools.
 
Businesses may want the next big thing but until they grasp the next big team, the next big group, the next big break-out dynamics from within a team - they'll just wing-it with randomized personal data. Where is the fierce and creative imagination in that?
 

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C’mon folks! Double standards.  Technology firms are marketing disruption on the road toward digitalizing humanity: it’s the future, innovative and grand disruption. If you’re reactive in this world you are signing up to be featured on the History channel. Get disruptive and your company can make history.
The Trump White House is nothing short of political disruption. Policy wrecks, personnel musical chairs, tweets and counter-tweets. What a mess. In just seven months Mr. Trump’s agenda and style of leading have managed to un-nerve CNN, the Democrats and Mr. Putin. Addressing immigration, healthcare, internet neutrality and rough policing – have created a landscape of disruption of astronomical proportions. That’s politics.

But wait a minute. The autonomous car, loaded with five extremely sensitive technologies on the roof may soon take away one of America’s greatest freedoms: driving. Wellness management firms want the genome of members and family members in order to discriminate against whomever they wish. Facebook is tracking and psychologically attributing every keystroke with algorithms to assist advertisers get at your behaviors. The brain craze is no longer only science or neurology; it’s damn near corporate IT, a fundamental model for IoT products and a 21st century mail order neuro awakening. Businesses are seeking personal bio-data, not healthier people. You do know that, right? In the sharing economy we don’t need privacy; we’re all one.
 
Is this unprecedented techno-disruption to our minds and bodies A-OK but political disruption provocative and diabolical?  I know which disruption scares the hell out of me.
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​From the forthcoming book: The Prophetic Backbone

If we’re going to talk about the future, then let’s consider that this unspecified flashpoint comes with past inputs known as values. Values are embedded in our human history and our beliefs framed in many institutions, faiths, constitutions and laws. On another level, values validate our individualism. With the internet’s global reach and enablement of individualism, so has exploded the output of individuals’ values. Without requiring a deep dive into how internet-of-things propagate personal data, how health monitoring systems track or how AI is evolving or even concerning patents for gene editing tools; it is about you and I thinking of things we haven’t given much attention to until recently. Normal human behaviors, the way we receive and subsequently act on information acquired throughout our lives remains the same as far as the brain is concerned.  In simplest terms, we identify actions good or bad without a whole lot of thought because our values have already shaped our perceptions. However, we’ve never in all humanity absolutely scientifically de-coded ourselves at the nuclear level (DNA) to enable re-coding, to make human structure the future IT infrastructure. From Aristotle to Einstein to Steve Jobs – digital technologists having adopted behavioral theories from three sciences: psychology, neurology and genetics - are frantically obsessing about controlling the digital future. What has changed? The problems, according to the prophets is the human who has ultimately created all the problems in the world. Humans are a source code just as any computer system has a source code; ours being DNA. They are focusing on an individual's biological environment over his external environment. The tech prophets are simply striving for genetic data. They believe both values and behavioral changes re-coded will quickly usher in their ideological vision of a structured future. Resembling aspirations of many past ideologists: to begin a change in the world you must change behaviors. Today, they have begun the collection of individual human biological data and blend it with business data so that neither type is distinguishable.
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