#technological frontier

The tech industry is one of the most lucrative and fastest-growing industries in the world. Indeed, countless people are making millions of dollars by helping to meet the world’s demand for more and more technological solutions. The select few business people who were smart enough to get in the tech industry early are currently at the top of the international business world. Unfortunately, while many entrepreneurs and professionals would like to get involved in the tech industry, it can be very difficult to find the right way in. Dean Grey is a network marketing professional who found that he had the transferable skills required to make it in the tech world. By first establishing himself in a separate field, Grey was able to enter the tech industry as a respected professional offering unique skills.

Building Skills

As a network marketing professional, Grey built a large network of colleagues, clients, and friends upon whom he could call for resources and advice. As a keynote speaker, Grey developed his talents for public speaking and used his personal life to inspire others to find success. Grey’s keynote speeches focus on overcoming challenges in the face of adversity, which is what made him so popular with millions of people around the world. Having dealt with an emotional divorce and the challenges of raising his daughter as a single parent, Grey is no stranger to life’s difficulties. But instead of letting these challenges break his spirit or affect his career, Grey used his experiences with overcoming difficulties as examples of how a positive attitude can lead to great things.

Though Grey had established an extensive network through marketing and speaking, switching to publishing offered him the opportunity to reach a wider audience than he ever thought possible. Defining Moments Publishing, which he co-founded, published a collection of anecdotes entitled Defining Moments of Courage, which became an Amazon number one bestseller. The book led to his receiving the Top 40 Under 40 Single Parents Award, which is given to single parents who have struck a balance between their professional and personal lives.

Successful individuals have a number of characteristics. Some people might have exceptional leadership skills, while some might have extensive experience. However, one characteristic of success that is often overlooked is the ability to overcome challenges. In both our personal and professional lives, the ability to face adversity and come out on top is often the deciding factor between success and failure. Qualities like perseverance, a positive outlook, and emotional control all help in the work place, as well as in our daily lives.

Dean Grey is an entrepreneur and business professional who understands the importance of overcoming personal struggles. As a network marketing professional and successful keynote speaker, Grey has managed to turn the low points of his personal life into the high points of his professional career. He experienced his greatest struggles during his emotional divorce and subsequently when caring for his daughter as a single parent. Grey had to find a balance between providing for himself and his daughter while still pursuing his career with the same ambition as ever. Grey uses his personal story and eventual success in overcoming personal challenges to inspire millions of people around the world.

Reaching a Larger Audience

With the massive success of his keynote speaking career in network marketing, Grey realized that he could reach a wider audience in a different industry, so he decided to turn his attention to writing and publishing. He co-founded Defining Moments Publishing, an organization that focuses solely on publishing books that are meant to inspire others to devote themselves to overcoming their challenges. Grey personally contributed to their most successful publication, Defining Moments of Courage. This collection of personal anecdotes, from established business professionals to entrepreneurs, made the Amazon bestsellers list. It also led Grey to receive an award for the Top 40 Under 40 Single Parents for his balance of personal and professional life as a single parent.

A key skill of successful people is the ability to take positive guidance from negative moments in life. One of the truest measures of human character is how we respond to difficult times and how we overcome them. The support of other people can help us achieve this transformation, which is perhaps why such emphasis is placed on the importance of building strong communities and networks.

One man who knows all about this is Dean Grey, who has built a reputation as being one of the most energetic and inspirational keynote speakers in the world. Grey made his name in network marketing, as well as being a prolific public figure inspiring millions with his experiences of courage and determination. Central to Grey's popularity and success is his ability to show people how he turned negative experiences into the positive driving forces behind his successful career.

A Difficult Period

Following a dramatic and unpleasant divorce in his mid-twenties, Grey began to develop his philosophy. While already having built a reputation as a successful and promising network marketer, the divorce shook his confidence to the core. To add to this burden, he was left to raise his daughter as a single parent while still providing an income for them both. Grey spent years focusing on being a good father and raising his daughter in the right way. He returned to the network marketing industry following this hiatus, and within only a year, reached the top rungs of the network marketing ladder.

notes from a lecture delivered by Joshua Lederberg

Okay, so my title is quite a mouthful -- infinitistic historiography and terrestrial eocivilization -- but I will try to make the relationship between the two sound not only comprehensible, but obvious.

In my post The Terrestrial Eocivilization Hypothesis (which could be abbreviated as TEH) I identified this hypothesis with the claim that terrestrial civilization is the first and earliest civilization in the universe. In other words, the solution to the Fermi paradox is that there are no other technological civilizations.

The prefix "eo-" in "eocivilization" simply means "early," and I have taken this over from Joshua Lederberg's use of "eobiology" in order to indicate the earliest biology on Earth, which is now studied in origins of life research, which falls under astrobiology broadly construed.

In previous discussions I noted that Lederberg, in making a distinction between eobiology and exobiology, wanted to contrast the origins of life in the universe to the destiny of life in the universe; similarly, with eocivilization and exocivilization we can contrast the origins of civilization in the universe to the destiny of civilization in the universe. The complications arise from our limited knowledge of life and civilization in the universe. We don't yet know if we are alone or not, and this means that we don't yet know the structure of astrobiology or astrocivilization.

Given an infinitistic historiography, however, an extrapolation of what we know to date regarding astrobiology or astrocivilization -- that is to say, that there is at least one planet in the universe that is potentially the source of life and civilization, even if life and civilization have not emerged elsewhere -- suggests that even if we are alone in the sense of cosmic loneliness, we need not necessarily always be isolated in this way.

If we allow a finite point of origin both for biology and civilization (i.e., there is a time in the past prior to which there was no biology or civilization) but history is understood infinitistically, at our present state of knowledge and scientific method, we can say little about the apparently sterile past, but the future lies open to infinite development. Technically, we should say of life and civilization, given 1) the finite origins of both, and 2) infinitistic historiography, that they are sempiternal, or, more narrowly yet, that they possess future sempiternity.

The possibility of the sempiternity of terrestrial life and civilization is related in an interesting way to what I recently wrote about The Technological Frontier. In that post, I suggested that one way to understand the technological frontier is as the exploration of the technium. Taken in the context of infinitistic historiography, however, this immediately highlights a distinction between the technological frontier and the technium. The technium as we know it today, associated exclusively with the technology of terrestrial eocivilization, is as finite as the origins of that civilization. However, the technological frontier, as a frontier and not as a finite fait accompli, is finite in a sense that the technium is not infinite.

At very least, the technological frontier is potentially infinite, and to say more would require an inquiry into the applicability of the concepts of the transfinite to the concepts of historiography -- something that I hope to take up in the fullness of time, but which I will not yet attempt to develop at this time. But given only the potential infinity of future sempiternity, already interesting consequences follow.

In the context of future sempiternity, terrestrial eocivilization (as well as terrestrial biology, and astrocivilization may be understood as an extension of astrobiology) takes on a special significance of being the source of life and civilization in the universe. In the potentially infinite future. life and civilization can go on to be the origins of both throughout the universe. There being time enough, terrestrial biology and civilization could expand to other worlds, lose touch with their terrestrial origins, evolve into something entirely distinct, and be rediscovered in the farther future, thus fulfilling our most fantastic science fiction dreams of encountering a universe filled with exotic life and exotic civilizations.