Theory of Everything
CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest machine, and most powerful supercomputer system, ever built.
The LHC is a key part of “The Quest for a Theory of Everything” (TOE) in physics.
Countless researchers, including Einstein, have spent many decades and billions of dollars pursuing the TOE.
Science Of Everything
They have just been beaten – by an even bigger discovery – the Science Of Everything (SOE).
Houston, we have a Solution
The SOE solves seemingly impossible problems that are too complex for AI (Artificial Intelligence).
For example, what are the optimal people and technology lever settings to make a company as productive as Google, or as popular as Apple?
(Google generates about $1.5 million in revenue per employee. Google has almost two hundred thousand employees!)
(Apple's market capitalization has grown 1,500 times, following near bankruptcy, and the choice to "think different". This has been described as "a corporate renaissance unparalleled in American business history." Apple stores look like fan clubs.)
Another example: how do we "emancipate the mind" to replicate China's astounding and unprecedented economic renaissance?
Houston, we have a Problem
If we need an even more compelling reason to mobilize immediately, there is one, and it is twice the size of world GDP:
How can we remediate the $210 trillion Kotlikoff Sinkhole before it implodes?
The Kotlikoff Sinkhole refers to unfunded US federal liabilities, which are off-balance-sheet, and officially understated (Economist Laurence Kotlikoff). The $31 trillion US debt (ceiling) is part of the Kotlikoff Sinkhole.
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) 2023 "Budget and Economic Outlook," the situation (Kotlikoff Sinkhole) is getting worse fast, while inaction persists.
Harbingers
The 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was a small glimpse of what implosion of the Kotlikoff Sinkhole would look like. The GFC Timeline in Wikipedia reads like the never-ending plot of a financial horror movie. We do not want such a situation ever again. And yet we are nightmarishly close, to far worse...
By some measures the notional value of the derivatives market is 20 times world GDP. The GFC perfect storm likewise gave us a small glimpse of the instability of this capricious colossus fueled by hubris, greed and ego.
There is hope
The SOE is the only SOLUTION big and powerful enough to switch trajectory.
A transition is inevitable since dysregulation and dysfunction is not indefinitely sustainable.
The SOE means inaction is no longer excusable. It is time to stop playing ostrich. It is time to stop kicking the can down the road. It is time for action.
We can still choose if the transition will be orderly or chaotic.
The sooner we do so, the better our chances.
As Steve Jobs repeatedly told current Corning Glass CEO, Wendell Weeks:
"Don't be afraid. You can do it!"
