Marshall Barnes "CEO Time Machine" Result Supports Decades Long Idea He's Someone From The Future

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - Aug. 18, 2014 - PRLog -- The web site asks a simple question in big bold letters. "Where Do You Belong?". Above it states its intriguing moniker - "The CEO Time Machine". Anyone knowing internationally noted innovator and R&D engineer, Marshall Barnes, would know such a headline would grab his attention even if he just caught a glimpse from across the street. Instead, he saw a reference to it on Twitter.

"I was running my Twitter feed for innovation and saw someone mentioning a 'CEO time machine' and I was like 'What?' but I had to check it out, clearly".

What he found at ceotimemachine.strategy-business.com was an impressive, dark and somewhat brooding page stating, "Throughout modern business history, CEOs have faced challenges and pursued opportunities tied to the times in which they led. In this interactive experience, we ask you to answer a handful of questions about your leadership style, habits, and opinions.Then we’ll match your profile to the era in which you may be the best fit as CEO. " Then there was the orange button that says, "Begin" below the prompt, "Enter the CEO Time Machine".

"I thought I'd try it, you know, give it a whirl to see what the questions were like and the results," Marshall explained. "Seriously, I thought I'd score something related to the past - somewhere around the 1930s to maybe the '70s at the latest, just based on what I've been told at times about my thinking related to research. Much of my work is based on things from those time periods".

However, after Marshall finished the survey, the site went through a dramatic transformation as computer animations showed the tabulation of his results. When it was all said and done, it revealed Marshall isn't like someone from the past at all, but someone best suited for the future. The distant future. More than 20 years away. 2040.

"I was sitting there stunned. Not even in the time tables I use for project development was I ever thinking that far ahead. The furthest was around 2020 at this point. I just sat there in shock".

Marshall describes how, what it meant, hit him. That the largest and longest running commentary about him is not about how he's like someone from the past, but actually someone from the far, far future.

"It's like something from the future..." Amy Newberry of Dayton's Channel 22 said during a NBC NewsChannel report on Marshall's then new creation, Seeing the Breykiot, in 1992, which was and still is the world's first psychoactive rock video album. It wasn't the first time something he'd created was described that way. The first was in 1980 by the Associated Press when he began the production on the first rock video album ever produced entirely by a rock muscian, before the existence of MTV.

"It's been something that's actually plagued me most of my adult life. My ideas are consistently ahead of the crowd, even to the point I couldn't get funding at times because no one understood what I was talking about," he explains. "Recently, it hasn't been so bad, as far as the negative side effects of constantly flashing on tomorrow's to come. I have a credible track record now and I've out paced, out performed, and out done some many establishment figures in fields such as physics and innovation. I had no idea the CEO Time Machine would even project anywhere in the future".

Strategy+Business magazine, promoters of the CEO Time Machine site, used it as a tool to promote their article, The Lives and Times of the CEO, by Ken Favoro, Per-Ola Karlsson and Gary L. Neilson. Responses to both have been overwhelmingly positive, with a few others, besides Marshall, getting the "2040" year result. However, there's a big difference in their responses to it. While most were either slightly baffled by what to make of it, and one stated he was glad he would be ready for the future, Marshall's take was completely different. He wasn't using the results as a barometer for how he'd act in the future but how he would use his knowledge to influence the present. He posted on the site -

"Well, I took the survey and loved it! My hat's off to the creators. The results actually confirm a lot of things about me, as I am involved in advanced concept science and technology. In fact, my speciality is the nature of time and time travel (see about.me/marshallbarnes ) . So it's very fitting that my score would place me as like someone from the future - 2040. The key, however, is not that I'm fit for that year, but that I can take that thinking and impose it on the business world now, and in fact, that's what I'm doing with my business in aerospace and high tech and in the innovation field. This made my day!"

You can see Marshall's results by clicking this link - http://ceotimemachine.strategy-business.com/#/MarshallBarnes . The irony is Marshall had declared, on New Year's Eve night, 2014 to be the year of the time machine. Since then, there have been more time machine related movies than in any other year and a commercial, with a fake one, won $1,000,000 as part of a Doritos Super Bowl contest. It would appear the CEO Time Machine is another development making Marshall's prediction accurate, with a personal touch.

Marshall's been working forcefully to project his potential influence in a number of areas. He made it as one of 25 innovators featured in the Boston event of the IX Innovation Cities Tour of Innovationexcellence.com last May before setting off to deliver a peer reviewed paper on the physics and potential for, his Verdrehung Fan™, the first real time machine in the world, to create traversable wormholes, at the International Space Development Conference (see http://www.prlog.org/12324897-after-major-victory-at-ix-i... ). He soundly defeated Dr. Ronald Mallett of the University of Connecticut in the race to build the first time machine, which in this case would work on the particle level and be able to send signals to the past.


"It's kind of funny, now that I think of it, but Stephen Hawking has said he wouldn't take a bet against time travel because he might be betting with someone from the future who would know better. This would explain a lot about why I was able to build the first time machine and I'm always finding mistakes in Hawking's work".

Stephen Hawking lost his 2008 public Higgs Boson bet to Marshall in 2012 when the Higgs was discovered, a discovery which was confirmed this year, solidifying Marshall as Hawking's most successful challenger ever.

To see what era you would be a good fit for, try the CEO Time Machine at http://ceotimemachine.strategy-business.com . It's free and it's fun.

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