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The Next 20 Years
The Foundation, as tends to happen with most phenomena in
our Universe, traverses periods of expansion and contraction. During the year
prior to my arriving at the Foundation in 1988 as Research Director, the
Foundation had already begun a major period of expansion and rebirth. When I
became Executive Director in 1989, the world of computing was changing and with
the changes, the Foundation moved forward into the new world of advanced
personal computers. Gone were the 8K computers with 8” floppy disks!
The Foundation, from its earliest times, was in the
forefront of computerization. It saw in the early 1950s what many are only now
seeing. In the late 1980s we also saw the need to convert all of our data from
paper to computer readable media. We also began a search for data so that we
could use the new power that personal computers then gave us. We created over
500 data series in disciplines from physical science to financial markets.
Several of these data series dated prior to the birth of Christ.
We were then able to survey the scope of modern history.
The purpose of developing these series was an extension of our mission find to
find cycles in as many series as possible and then find the mechanism that
causes these cycles. Our purpose has always been not just knowledge, but
knowledge that makes life better.
We are now in 2007 on the verge of yet another expansion of
the work of the Foundation. Our new President and Executive Director, David
Perales, has taken our mission to a new level. Until this year, we had counted
on but a few researchers to advance the cause of cycles. These were trained
scientists and experienced cycle analysts. The reason there were just a few was
a lack of research available to both the general public and the academic
researcher.
In our over 66 years of research this is a tragedy, but it
is soon to be turned around. David Perales has begun the task of digitalizing
and making available all of our research. This research has been presented in
Cycles Magazine, seminars, papers and correspondence in our archives.
Of one thing we are certain, the research we are now making
available to all will further our goals as nothing has since E.R. Dewey and
Copley Amory created the Foundation.
When we review what we did 20 years ago in creating our
computer data series and modern software it will also seem to appear as nothing
in comparison to what will take place in the next 20 years.
We look forward to playing our part.
Richard Mogey,
Executive Director 1989-1996, Director of Research 2007
Foundation for the Study of Cycles, Inc. |
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