from: The Prophetic Backbone

Business platforms of the enterprise kind evolve, change, expand, merge and adapt. All this leads to systems integration too often and IT laborers from all around the globe cycling in and out the door. The bottom line is that enterprise integration projects cost millions per year as do security, managing service level agreements, mitigating states of non-maintenance and “what-if” scenarios when predicting cyber criminals’ attacks. 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 ahead on; almost all are man-made. It is clearly understood that most outspoken and progressive technologists agree that complexity should and can be reduced because humans have gone as far as possible. As with systems simplification, so goes the employee: out the door. Say the word “robot” in the media and one 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 hand there are firms and universities that want to augment, insert or approach the brain as the last hope to reshape intelligent IT management because the increase of data is getting way out of control. They too believe that people-labor can and should be eliminated. 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 2017
The Prophetic Backbone, est publication mid-2017

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