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By the time you perceive something it has already happened. We have now entered into an new world of public experience where even with electronic communication we are missing out on the important stuff, because it has already happened and a new reality exists. One interesting and worrying example came from the investment industry where a company by making their fiber optic lines from Chicago to New York shorter than their competitors gave them enough advantage to gain consistent profits. In nanoseconds their computer by intercepting a buy order could pre-purchase the stock and then resell it through the known purchaser’s transaction that was already in transit. That system was defeated by routing the purchase and sell orders through a site where miles of fiber optic lines were wound around drums to make all transactions have the same distance of travel and thus the same time delay.

The implication of that new world we now live within is that we must anticipate what is going to happen even more than we have been accustomed to doing. Humans are quite good at anticipation, at least relative to a rock, but we must be aware of the environment from where new things can appear. Check out YouTube – Russian Auto Accidents, for videos of human caution and foresight in action. Having watched some of those events, go back to the site and practice saying out-loud what you would do before the critical event occurs. The problem becomes that things happen very quickly and the best actions to take need to be taken before the problem arises.

Our perception is always in the past, our intentional action is always in the future, deal with it.