A special briefing on the New Horizons: Beyond 2020 Vision Program from TETRAD Institute and Partners

We must recognize that we are at a Turning Point as a human civilization and we need to undertake significant changes in how we respond to and solve problems, challenges, that are unlike any we have ever faced before as a human race, as a planetary civilization.

We CAN DO the intelligent things but this requires having the right teams, the right focus, the right resources, and above all, the right attitudes about how we go about our science, our technology, our business, our socialization, to Solve Big Challenging Problems.

These following charts plus the short accompanying text give you a glimpse into a Very Different Way of Addressing and Solving Very Big Serious Problems. We hope you will take the Opportunity to read these carefully, and then go to read more detailed information, and then do the Only Logical Thing when someone (in this case, Our Team) approaches a person with a big problem on his or her hands (in this case, You) and says, "May I offer you some assistance? I do this sort of thing every day and pretty well."

The world is not ending. Not for awhile at least. But we are in an apocalyptic phase of life, a major transition, and just as the etymology of this word says, it is all about change, shift, a break with some old ways, a beginning of some new, and a need for Intelligent Adaptation.

An "apocalyptic" process is not necessarily bad, catastrophic, or to be avoided. First of all, as in our present Situation as a Human Civilization on one solitary small planet, Earth, it is Unavoidable. Secondly, it is something that is an Opportunity for Growth, Discovery, Change, Evolution, and something better than mere "survival" of whatever and however things were in the past. We are at the cusp of a New Eveything, about how we exist as individuals, as families, as communities, as large groups such as nations and races, and as a Civilization. We must be sincere, serious, but also we can be optimistic.

** We see the consequences of what should have been a far less chaotic response to the significant but not unforeseeable and not unmanageable COVID-19 pandemic of the coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Things did not need to be this way, and they can be changed. However, things must be done in a methodical, logical, and sensible manner. Otherwise the consequences to a cascade of natural and man-made complications and challenges will break our ability as a civilization to adapt, to organize, to control, and to survive.

Why we exist and live as an Institute and as a Company as an a Consortium of quite a few other experts and highly-practiced individuals is because We Can Make a Very Good Difference for You.

** Our immensely over-populated planet can control its population growth in ways that do not require suffering or loss of natural personal and familial desires and wishes. A major part of the problem is the overgrowth of bureaucracy within our societies, and infrastructural systems that are weakly and poorly maintained. Our economy is still focused upon accelerated growth and expansion, in the face of dwindling resources for energy, food, water, and other essentials. We can address this in a logical manner, or else we will face the most severe consequences as so clearly stated by people like Jorgen Randers in his seminal critique, "2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years" - a book that everyone should read and study carefully.

** The risks from both natural and human-accelerated climate change and other environmental changes, including transformed patterns in the habitats and migration patterns of many species of animals and plants - including microorganisms capable of inducing epidemic and pandemic infectious diseases - these risks are not merely possibilities but concrete realities. Our social and engineering infrastructures are not presently capable of handling these changes well. People, across the planet, need to change lifestyles and behaviors in many ways to adapt to these new dynamics, or else the consequences will be severe.

** The risks from both asteroid collisions and EMP (electromagnetic pulse) bursts in space are definite albeit unpredictable. We need to have adequate technology solutions inm place, ready for these events. We have had the capability to do so for years. We cannot ignore the realities even though there are many uncertainties about where, when and how.

There are risks that are difficult to enumerate or specify, but we are now within possibly 15.5 years or possibly 47.5 years of an event that can wipe out most of Civilization and that includes your equity stocks, your hedge funds, your 401(k), and all the rest. WE can help to avert this with High Certainty and Reliability.

There are great prospects for moving forward positively and intelligently. The next step is yours - Contact us and let's have Constructive Purposive Dialog.

Each of these Projects addresses multiple aspects of these Four Huge Challenges.

** ASTRIC addresses the diversion of collision-bound asteroids and creates a mechanism by which countermeasures for destructive EMP events can be averted both in space and on Earth. ASTRIC addresses also problems on Earth that need solutions with cooperative networks of both robots and humans. ASTRIC is something that can be built at a fraction of the cost and time required for many "heavy-load and heavybureaucracy" engineering projects for Space and also on Earth.

** CHS (Community Health and Safety Infrastructures) is an integrated approach to addressing pandemics and other public health problems like COVID-19 so that they do not become the Disasters that they have been in 2020 thus far. This Project works to enhance healthcare and prevent waste, loss, and especially, sickness and death from diseases that can be managed and mitigated very well through smarter communications and information-access, mobile and versatile diagnostics, tesating and treatment, and person-oriented, socially-serving antimicrobial bioprotection. With CHS, communities small and large and whole nations can have a much more effective suite of tools for helping Everyone in matters of personal and public health and safety.