It is likely that the main fieldbook of our last edition will impact the user like a travel guide to 1000 very good human intelligences
There are several inspirations to how future history genre of 2025 report but the one understood my today's co-editors starts in 1945 with Economist Editor Geoffrey Crowther. Geffrey edited London's weekly journal The Economist for over a decade before and after world war 2's conclusion. He also edited the centenary autoboigraphy of The Economist in 1943. As he said this was a unique opportunity to make sense of 100 year journalism instead of weekly reporting
In 1945 the exponentially deepest engineering question was could the impacts of engineers 2025-1945 celebrate more human good relationships around mother earth than the media and electricity engines begun out of Switzerland's IRU in 1865.
If the new engines of 1865 had root caused 2 world wars, it was likely that consequences of Engines 2025-1945 woul be be expoentially far better of far worse. As a Keynesian, Crowther was interested in what locks in possinbilities of next generations futures. My family entreeed into Crowrher's inquiry as dad had spent his last days as teen nanigatir allied bomer command burma, surviving he was in Keynes last class before Crowther hired dad and by 1951 sent dat to Priceton/New York to ask Von Neumann (and his NET: Einstein, Turing) about expoential multipliers
During the fisst 13 years that The Economist sever quesyioning of leaders included the NET's expected accelerations , Kennedy, Prince Charles and Japan's Emperor influenced the future - see www.econokistjapan.com; in effcet the pacific ocean (california to the coastal belth Jpaan Korea Taiwan HK and Singapore) had become an alternative innovation space to the atlantic theatre (Us east coast, and the 3 euoopes of isnads, of itu and central europe, and the EU's 6first 6 countries og 1955 which faf observed as only journalist Messina 1955)
So as we search for very good intelligences - 4 centre of gravities worth including:
how stanfrd became epicentre of global competition of training comuter brans (Fei-Fei Li epiecente before and after 2012)
the consequence of Jensen huang beettinng furtire comter design on 2012's ai breakthrough
the consequences of hassabis desinging intelligence games martching einstein's natural science revolution of 1905!
the cobsewquences of King Charles inviting commonwealth and turing worlds to LM Kings Ebglish in AI World series from Bletchley 2023, Korea and Parus, and why not space yot place digiral twins AI Soverigty
For Scots we could go back earlier. In 1758 Smith had asked what wil be the triangulaisation of
1 natures systems
2 humans moral sentiments
3 man mafe (aeruficial) engines that his Glasgow University compatriot James Watt was emerging
Smith's explorations of compound systems are context rich. Scitlabd had become a coloy of London Kings since 1710s. Smith wanted to see a continent nit just one bellicose island be free to design enginnering futures. So he wasnt unhapply when Celtic friends led tea parties and US independence though Smith would not hav intended doubling down of Englosh Empire on two thirs of humans who were Asian
While we are looking forclues to crossroads that spiun rounf sysyems - its interestin to ask when did the King's english become the lingua franca of world trade.
When it comes to LLM (Large Language Mapping) it helps to see when did English become the world's business language - somewhere between 1666 when dutch gave the english what became new york, late 1690s when Newton turned from cambridge science academic to master of London Mint (newly designed pounda gold standard) or 1730s start up of Lloyds; in any event this was before the start of engineering 1760 an birth of independeent usa 1776
