Transcendent Foresight

When the Future Begins Before We Know How to See It

TRANSCENDENT FORESIGHT
When the Future Begins Before We Know How to See It

A post on X brought back to my mind a story that had begun eighty-five years earlier.
Mario Japaz recounted a conversation held in Chile in 2015, when a Chilean businessman told him that Macri would not represent Argentina’s true liberal transformation.
Argentina, he argued, would be the muscle that the liberal countries of the Pacific were missing.
Brazil would come next and, with it, a shift to a continental scale.
Europe would lose relative weight, the United States and China would deepen their trade confrontation, Russia would retain military power but lose economic influence, and the United States would once again need Latin America as a substantial part of its Western space.
Read in 2026, the account feels disturbingly familiar.
But something took us much further back.
In January 1941, the first issue of the magazine Logosofía appeared in Buenos Aires, directed and written by Carlos B. González. Europe was at war. At the bottom of that first cover one could read:
“In the depths of America, the future of Humanity is taking shape.”
The same issue included “America as the Hope of the World,” which spoke of a “new American civilization” that present generations were to bequeath to future ones.
Decades later came the Catalan historian Alexandre Deulofeu, who since the 1930s had developed a conception based on cycles and recurrences that he called the Mathematics of History.
By comparing earlier civilizations, he sought to identify the historical stage through which a culture was passing and to approximate its future developments.
Among his later interests was the South American Southern Cone.
Deulofeu perceived a new culture taking shape in the territory of the Río de la Plata.
A later study of his thought summarizes it suggestively: “in the territory of the Río de la Plata, a new civilizing process could be taking shape.”
The coincidence would be merely curious if a third figure did not appear.
Abelardo F. Gabancho, an Argentine naval captain, had personally known González Pecotche and had been influenced by his ideas.
At the end of 1976, a book by Deulofeu came into his hands.
He was so impressed that in April 1977 he traveled to Figueres to meet him.
Gabancho later succeeded in bringing Deulofeu to Argentina.
In April 1978, a few months before his death, the Catalan arrived in Buenos Aires and gave a lecture whose title seems written for this investigation: “Argentina, a Point of Reference for Other Cultures.”
Deulofeu stated that he had come to awaken the consciousness of Argentines to an opportunity related “to the process of humanity as a whole.”
Gabancho also recorded a meeting between Deulofeu and a person connected to Logosophy.
According to his testimony, both agreed “on the promising future of these cultures of the Southern Cone of America.”
The two lines had finally met.
What do we do with this kind of coincidence? We can dismiss them. We can turn them into prophecies.
We prefer to explore them.
That is what we decided to call Transcendent Foresight: a way of exploring the future by looking for convergences among intuitions, anticipations, and historical processes that were born separately but that, observed from the present, seem to point in the same direction.
It does not seek to predict the future. It seeks to transcend the immediate horizon from which we usually interpret events.
And today we have something that González Pecotche, Deulofeu, and Gabancho did not have: artificial intelligence.
AI does not allow us to see the future. It allows us to look simultaneously at much more of the past and much more of the present; to connect documents separated by decades and continents with statistics, capital movements, political transformations, infrastructure, trade, and demographics. Judgment remains human.
So let us return to the map.
Argentina is undergoing a transformation that few would have imagined years ago.
Brazil once again proves decisive.
And between them appears Uruguay: small, stable, open, and positioned on the South Atlantic.
Argentina, Uruguay, and southern Brazil form a Río de la Plata, Pampas, and gaúcho space that for centuries has been crossed by people, trade, immigration, ideas, and cultures.
Today, food, water, energy, ports, minerals, digital infrastructure, submarine cables, logistics, and access to the South Atlantic converge there.
Uruguay may prove to be a privileged observatory.
Its scale makes it possible to see movements that in larger countries disappear within enormous economies: Brazil in meatpacking and finance; China in trade; Europe in infrastructure and telecommunications; the United States in technology and strategic relations; Great Britain and the new interests of the South Atlantic.
Taken separately, none of this is extraordinary.
The question is whether we are observing independent events or still-scattered fragments of a larger process.
We have the right to be wrong. We must not confuse intuition with certainty, but neither should we confuse uncertainty with a reason to stop thinking.
In 1941, Carlos B. González wrote that in the depths of America, the future of Humanity was taking shape.
Decades later, Deulofeu identified a new civilizing process in the Southern Cone.
In 2015, a Chilean businessman described to Mario Japaz a transformation that would begin in Argentina, reach Brazil, and ultimately become part of a broader reorganization of the Western world.
And in 2026, a post on X brought the pieces back together.
Perhaps it is all a remarkable coincidence.
Or perhaps some historical processes begin long before we have the words needed to name them.
Transcendent Foresight proposes exactly that: daring to look.
Because perhaps the future does not begin tomorrow. It began a long time ago.
And only now are we learning to see it.

Historical convergences in the Southern Cone
Foresight and civilizing processes
Reconfiguration of the Western space

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