Applied Intelligence … A Strategy in Pursuit of a Caribbean Renaissance Introduction Power, the highly sought-after functional mainstay of humanity’s existence throughout time, remains central to the pursuit of prosperity in any society. Knowledge, capital, and technology are all ingredients to that pursuit and have consistently underwritten prosperity throughout time. And, as history shows, through evidence and analysis, those people, groups, nations that have focused on developing knowledge ecosystems facilitated by technology we're able to thrive exponentially over the very long term. Today, the world is at a transitionary inflection point, a critical juncture, where many societies around the world are now faced with fundamental economic decisions, whereby new robust transcending technology, where access and utility of it, is becoming increasingly determinant to successful economic outcomes. For the Black popu