Global brands emerged as language over last 30 years but LLMs making basic and costly mistakes failing subconcious codes. Ask for example chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
Over 50 years ago at The Economist dad Norman debated main purposes of satellites - pity human intelligence has not done this. "Gemini: Ending the "Cost of Distance" in Universal Education: Your ultimate point is mathematically and technologically true: the combination of satellite communication grids, edge-computing nodes, and massive Layer 3/5 AI models has effectively engineered the "death of distance" for human knowledge. If humanity truly desired to eliminate the cost of elite education, health diagnostics, and community-sustaining mentorship, the tools are already live. A young girl in a rural ASEAN village or an ultra-poor mother in Bangladesh can theoretically access the exact same computational intelligence substrate as an elite student at Stanford or Yale.
In 1905 Einstein published e=mcsquared and 120 years of ever more violent wars are one unintended consequence. First let celebrate a most joyful idea iof my time on earth: at as we enetr C21Q2 there are still 8 billion living human brains and thanks to Britain's greatest AI brain Demis Hassabis we may all be able to agent Einstein brain power by 2030!
Join AIWHitehouse ...Minimum AI Brief to all teachers ;;Day 366 Trump2.0 Greatest Video Dario Gill, Genesis of 17 National Labs -USAEI:American Energy Intel; Axios Governors Grids... DC March 11 scsp .ai+education summit & ... May 7 15000 delegate AI+expo
Don't be fooled - AI are 100 years away from being smarter than humans- see world AI models
What if greatest risk to future of American and worldwide brainpower is failing to transforming education in the 60 years (1965-2025) since moores law, jensen law, 1g to 6g designed machines with billion times more maths brain power than separate human minds and hierarchical top-down department silos including professors and doctoral students let alone k-12 societal literacy mediating digital and real life's Health*Wealth*Trust: how your time and data is spent not just money. Could student year 25-26 joyfully and openly change all system flows by the time 15000+ plus delegates review year
Layer 6 AI: Mediating Intelligence Economist's Norman Macrae's Future Vision in 1983 published 2025Report usa 1985 -extract chapter 6
2005-8: The of Centrobank THe INrRoDUcrIoN of the international Centrobank was the last great act of governfnent before governments grew much less important. It was not a conception of policy-making governments at all, but emerged from the first computerized town meeting of the world. By 2005 the gap in income and expectations between the rich and poor nations was recognized to be man's most dangerous problem. The satellite TC system and two-way cable television channels in sixty-eight countries invited their viewers to participate in a computer conference about it, in the form of a series of weekly TC programs. Recommendations tapped in by viewers were to be tried out on a computer model of the world economy. If recommendations were shown by the model to be likely to make the world economic situation worse, they were lntroduction t sl l THE 2025 REPORT to be discarded. If recommendations were reported by the model to make the economic situation in poor couptries better, they were to be retained for "ongoing computer analysis" in the next program. In 2025 it is easy to see this as a forerunner of the TC conferences which play so large a part in our lives today, both as pastime and as the principal innovative device in business. But the truth about this 2005 breakthrough tends to irk the highbrows. It succeeded because it was initially a rather downmarket network television program. This is illustrated by the fact that the two gold-medal-winning telecommuters who were eventually acclaimed for contributing most to Centrobank's birth were Mr. S. C. Hu, the thoughtful and rich retired merchant of Taipeh in Taiwan, and Mr. Bjorn Heglund, the earnest young subpostmaster from the Kiruna district of north Sweden. Neither would conceivably have been consulted if a conference on the subject had been called mainly among the best-educated economists of 2005. About 400 million people watched the first program, and 3 million individuals or groups tapped in suggestions. Around 99 per cent of these were rejected by the computer as being likely to increase the unhappiness of mankind. It became known that these rejects included suggestions submitted by the World Council of Churches (whose "Charter 2006" was reported by the computer to be likely to increase unhappiness among 87 per cent of the population of the world) and by many other pressure groups. This still left 31,000 suggestions that were accepted by the computer model as worthy of ongoing analysis. As these were honed, and details were added to the most interestitg, an exciting consensus began to emerge. Later programs were watched by nearly a billion people as it became recognized that something important was being born. These audiences were swollen by successful telegimmicks. The presenter of the opening part of the first program was a roly-poly professor who was that year's Nobel laureate in economics, and who proved a natural television personality. He explained that economists now agreed that aid programs could 52 2005-8: The Introduction of Centrobank sometimes help poor countries, but sometimes most definitely made their circumstances worse. When Mexico was inflating at over 80 per cent a year in the early 1980s, the inflow to it of huge loanable funds made its inflation even faster and its crash more certain. The professor set Mexico's 1979-81 economy on the model, pumped in the loaned funds and showed how all the indicators (higher inflation, lower real gross domestic product, and so on) then flashed red, signalling an economy getting worse, rather than green, signalling an economy getting better. He followed this with similar examples from several other poor countries in Latin America and Africa during 1950-85. The professor then put the model back to mirror the contemporary world economy of 2005, and played into it various nostrums that had been recommended by politicians of left, right and center, but mostly left. The dials generally flashed red. Then the professor provided another set of recommendations, and asked any viewers who wished to play to tap in their own guesses for the consequent movements in twenty economic variables in the model. Those who got their guesses right to within a set error were told they had qualified for the second round of a knock-out economic guesstimators' world championship. Knock-out competitions of this sort continued for ordinary users of two-way TCs throughout the series of programs. In the second part of that first program the presenters dared to introduce two political problems into the game. They said that government-to-government aid programs had been particularly popular among politicians during the age of overgovernment, but there was growing agreement that government- to-government aid was the worst method of hand-out. The excessive role played by governments in many poor countries was one of the barriers to their economic advance, and a main destroyer of their people's freedom. Could anybody think it would have been wise to give aid to President Mbogo? In consequence, the most successful economic aid programs had been those operated through the International Monetary Fund, which imposed conditions on how borrowing governments should operate. The professor showed that IMF-moni- 53 THE 2025 REPORT tored operations in most years had brought more green flashes from the model than red, which few other sorts of schemes had done. But this involved IMF officials-often from the rich countries- in telling governments of poor countries what to do; and one of the objectives of the initiative called for by President Kennedy was precisely to diminish such embarrassments. The first questions to be asked in the next few programs, said the compilers, were (l) which countries should qualify for aid?; and, having decided that , (2) up to what limits and conditions?; and (3) through what mechanisms? They promised that later programs after the first half-dozen would examine how any scheme could be used to diminish the power of governments and increase the power of free markets and free people. The first stage of this computerized town meeting of the world went remarkably well. A consensus quickly emerged that poor countries which agreed to join a club with certain libertarian nrles (the principal ones were that markets instead of politicians should set prices; there should be fairly free trade, and fairly free immigration of people and businesses from countries richer than themselves; human rights cases should be referred to an international supreme court) could also have access to the benefits of a new international central bank called the "Centrobank." The Centrobank should be a body which relied very little on the discretion of its governor, but much more on a computer program. This program should authorize the Centrobank to print enough new foreign exchange called bancor for any applicant country below a certain income per head to allow its internal economic growth to proceed at the fastest possible noninflationary pace but not by one penny faster. The Centrobank's computer would monitor each recipient country's economy to see if inflationary or other strains were appearing, and would signal that Centrobank must cut off new supplies of artificially created foreign exchange if they did. Contemporary critics said in triple self-contradiction that (a) this scheme was so insulting to poor countries' governments 54 2005-8: The Introduction of Centrobonk that few would agree to join it; (b) all poor countries would flock to eat at this trough and there would be an impossibly inflationary expansion of world money supply; and that (c) the anti-inflationary terms proffered from the international central bank were so tough that this would still allow only painfully slow economic depauperization. Now that the Centrobank has been in operation for nearly twenty years we know that the answer to (a) is that the government of any poor country that does not join Centrobank is likely to be booted out by its people; that the answer to (b) is that, despite this flood of countries into the scheme, newly created foreign exchange for poor countries has in only one year,2Ol3, exceeded 0.2 per cent of world-wide money supply (WM3); and that the answer to (c) is that progress proved remarkably fast, although that was partly because of the answers that emerged to the second set of questions posed in the next few programs. The second set of questions which arose after about the eighth program rested on what sorts of purchases should qualify for Centrobank payments. Originally the notion had been that the international Centrobank should open foreign exchange clearing accounts to finance non-inflationary purchases by any persons or any groups in qualifying poor countries. The stated aim was that a poor country should not be prevented merely by shortage of foreign exchange from pursuing the fastest possible rate of non-inflationary economic growth. But under the remorseless logic of the computer a bias was soon introduced in favor of financing purchases by citizens in poor countries rather than purchases by their governments.It became clear that projects by cost-disregarding governments in poor countries led more quickly to inflation than projects undertaken either (a) by penny-pinching native entrepreneurs (who began to apPear out of the woodwork in some profusion and in extraordinary places); or (b) by competing multinational corporations on new sorts of performance contracts. If you ask your TCs today, "What were the main evil con- 55 THE 2025 REPORT sequences of the colonial and immediate post-colonial periods in the poor two-thirds of the world?" two of the top answers will be: "The fact that an entrepreneurial class could not emerge as an important political constituency until the introduction of Centrobank after 200 5 :' and "The fact that until Centrobank no mechanism except uncompetitive government was put in place to meet many of the most urgent demands of the poorest three-quarters of the peopl e." Centrobank's solution to the first of these problems owed much to the proposals from Mr. Hu; its solution to the second problem owed much to the proposals from Mr.Heglund. Start with why Mr. Hu's proposals for encouraging entrepreneurs were so important. Growth had taken place in Europe and Japan and North America after 1850 because an entrepreneurial commercial class had become a dominant political influence, replacing the aristocracies in Europe and Japan and the mhlange misdescribed by de Tocqueville in North America. In the immediate post-colonial period in the poor countries circa 1960-2005 power fell instead into the hands of a new class of professional politicians , dt a time when they could temporarily do damaging things inconceivable for professional politicians before or (thank God) since. Their most damaging act was to set "political" instead of market prices. By statutory decree in many poor countries exchange rates and urban wages had been kept too high, food prices to farmers and prices for public utilities kept too low, credit had been allocated by rationin g at negative real interest rates, and imports had been rationed by licences that were immensely profitable to the politicians' brothers-in-law who were corruptly granted them. Even in 2005 every single computer program showed that living standards were increased, inflation brought down, and huppiness and efticiency advanced, when these policies were abandoned. So did every practical example. Call up on your TCs the practical example of Taiwan in the second half of the twentieth century; analysis of its success was the basis for Mr. Hu's proposals for Centrobank. Taiwan in 56 ,N -; .I, tII 20054: The Introduction of Centrobank 1950-2000 had multiplied its real income twentyfold and its dollar exports four-hundredfold because in the 1950s an invading warlord and his soldiers had been impelled by odd circumstances into laissez-faire economic policies against their will; and because Taiwan had thereafter been kept dynamically entrepreneurial largely because of nasty protectionism by rich countries against its exports. When in 1948 the armies of General Chiang Kai-shek fled from the Chinese mainland to Taiw&r, swelling its population overnight, they found an island which relied for over 90 per cent of its exports on rice and sugar. These were two commodities whose sales could not be greatly increased on world markets by dropping their international price. It therefore seemed natural to the incoming soldiers to follow the mistaken policies adopted by so many other authoritarian governments in poor countries all through 1950-2005. For a while they exploited the farmers by keeping internal farm prices too low and Taiwan's international exchange rate artificially high. The soldiers also granted cheap credits to themselves to set up manufacturing businesses. The results of such folly were the usual ones: food production and exports fell; inflation soared to three-digit figures; and foreign exchange holdings collapsed despite huge American aid. The soldiers met this by restricting imports further to protect their infant industries and their disappearing exchange reserves; this sent inflation even higher. As sugar and rice production used up much land in the overcrowded island, real estate prices in particular went through the roof. This economic mess was sadly typical of many newly independent countries at the time, but Taiwan was lucky in being newly dependent instead. General Chiang Kai-shek was at this time entirely dependent politically on the Americans, and he unwillingly agreed to propitiate them by accepting their good advice. He moved in the late 1950s pretty abruptly from the then usual developing-country wrong policies (low prices to farmers; protected home market for manufactures but overvalued exchange rate; subsidized interest rates) to the unfash- 57 THE 2025 REPORT ionable and precisely opposite right policies (market prices for farmers and market-determined exchange rates and interest rates; trade liberalization). The results exceeded all expectations. With its market-determined exchange rate, Taiwan found that its cheap-labor exports of umbrellas et cetera expanded smoothly-until foreign umbrella-makers objected to Taiwan's penetration of their domestic markets; then Taiwan's expansion in that particular product would abmptly stop. So Taiwan grew through its industrial miracle of 1955-2005 knowing that its businesses must find new products for new markets all the time, and that last year's successful firm would often have to close down this year. In consequence of its recognition that bureaucrats cannot know what will be profitable next minute, Taiwan subsidized only one thing apart from its over-large army: its tax and social nonwelfare policies were directed to raising savings from 5 per cent of national income in the 1950s to a Japan-beating 25 per cent in the 1980s. Mr. Hu recommended that the policies furthered by Centrobank in poor countries should be those that had "been furthered by accident in my country, Taiwan:' and he suggested some of the relevant software by which the Centrobank's computer model could put these incentives into effect. He was rather too inclined to argue that "anybody who does not follow these policies should not get Centrobank aid," but the process of ongoing computer analysis synthesized most of this into the messag€, "If you are following Taiwan-type polici€s, then the computer will allow a much higher level of internal expansion before it flashes the signal that inflation is being fostered so that further Centrobank creation for you must stop." As the coordinating Nobel laureate said when presenting Mr. Hu with one of the two gold medals: His software provided one of the two quantum leaps that turned Centrobank into a success. Although the 1955-2005 Taiwan-type policies hugely expanded national income, the pressure groups in favor of them are entrepreneurs who do 58 2005J; The Introduction of Centrobank not come into being until the policies have already been introduced. In most poor countries that have been following the old and opposite policies of import substitution and pricerigging, the political constituencies in favor of the old policies are by definition more powerful. This is a main reason why these old-fashioned countries remain poor. In some Latin American countries right-wing generals have periodically seized power, and put into effect policies that are supposed to be laissez-faire. But these generals generally have to rely for their political mandate on the few old families who already own big businesses in these countries. Even with the best will in the world (which these right-wing generals rarely have) they tend therefore to support and protect yesterday's big capitalists, rather than the grubby entrepreneurs in back rooms on whom growth most depends. Mr. Hu's proposals managed to make Centrobank's computer programs mirror the dependence on entrepreneurs created by historical accident in the 1950-2005 success stories of Japan (which ploughed through yesterday's powerful families in 1945 and had to rely on entrepreneurs thereafter), Singapore (which benefited from not having any farmers or mral classes to exploit), Hong Kong (which did not have any political constituencies, only entrepreneurs) and Taiwan. Although Mr. Hu was rightly decorated for "enabling Centrobank policies to speak with a Taiwanese accent," the later stages of the first computerized town meeting of the world were carried on more like one of today's many million computer conferences than like the original television network program in which Mr. Hu joined. People after about program fourteen did not put in their views instantly, but after some days' consideration and after checking with the database which showed what was the presumed best form for Centrobank at the moment. The computer still rejected the 99 per cent of proposals made to it that were nonsense; it still incorporated for ongoing analysis the less than 1 per cent of suggestions that seemed sensible and relevant; but it also now introduced a new cate- 59 THE 2025 REPORT gory. It picked up those contrary views that seemed plausibly sensible, but not suitable for the emerging form of Centrobank's consensus, and put proposers of such ideas in touch with people holding similar views around the world. From the views of this constructive opposition to "Hu plus 33,I79 people's telecommunicated and accepted improvements," one new consensus objection began to emerge. "f,Jnder the Taiwanese system," wrote one objector, "the main incentive to entrepreneurs in poor countries is to produce for fairly rich consumers, abroad or at home. If most of the seventy to eighty countries in the Centrobank scheme started exporting cheap-labor umbrellas as Taiwan did in the 1950s , a glut of umbrellas would rather soon appear. It would be better if new entrepreneurs could be encouraged to provide more of the things desperately needed by the poorest three-quarters of the people in these poor lands." How to do this? It was no good saying that poor countries should follow more egalitarian tax policies so as to direct more of their internal demand to things needed by their own poorest people. In the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, marginal tax rates generally took around one half of earned incomes above about six times gross national product per head. Even this only managed to reduce Gini coefficients, the best measure of wealth inequality, from something like 0.39 to something like 0.34. In Africa in 2000 GNP per head was around $500 a year. Any egalitarian tax policy which promised to halve all incomes above $3,000 a year would have (a) killed all initiative; (b) stirred politicians' brothers-in-law, civil servants and-most important-army officers (who got over $3,000 a year) into instant coups d'€tat Moreover, ro mechanisms existed in these countries to provide cheaply the complicated services the very poor needed most urgently. This was the problem that benefited from the proposals of Bjorn Heglund, who had long urged that the public services needed in his native North Sweden should be provided competitively by private entrepreneurs on performance contracts, along the lines of experiments which had been tried in the 1990s 60 20054: The Introduction of Centrobank by various worthy Swedish international aid organizations which "adopted" certain Third World villages. As was said at the presentation of Heglund's gold medal: We at Centrobank began to realize that poor countries could best grow richer by selling simple cheap-labor goods to the rich world-a process that did not involve them in using our proffered foreign exchange at all, although it had become possible only after they responded to Centrobank's initial incentives d la "Hu plus 33,179." The right way to use their new foreign exchange was often to provide mechanisms d la Heglund whereby Western firms are encouraged to make money by providing the services that the poorest three-quarters in the poor world most need. The time was ripe for this experiment, especially in such fields as medicine. The trend even in the West at this time was to new sorts of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), through which people paid performance fees to physicians and their assistants if they kept them pnd their families healthy. It was early decided to put the competitive services provided by multinational HMOs into the pool which would qualify for Centrobank payments. Sophisticated computer measurements of people's health were coming into fashion, and three young doctors just out of medical school at the University of Minneapolis drew the largest single Centrobank payment in 2009 when their HMO, resting heavily on telecommunicated X-rays and long-range computer analyses, plus quickly trained local paramedics and some helicopter- carried Western doctors on call, plus recommended dietary changes and some environmental changes which new staffs personally put into effect (cleaning wells, etc.), brought an extraordinary improvement in the health indices of people over a wide stretch of Africa's desperately poor Sahel. Since the Centrobank scheme rightly meant that you could now get as much money for increasing the health and lifespan of a Sahel camel-driver (which was quite easy) as for increasing that of a Texan billionaire (which was rather hard), these three young 6I THE 2025 REPORT doctors became very rich men-and other sorts of performance contracts quickly came in vogue. This revolution in attitudes and

Thursday, March 2, 2023

some questions to chatgpt on who's helping ai help guterres and millennials with challenge of education is not for for purpose

 Given that UN leader Guterres has said education is no longer fit for purpose, What do you see as the role of AI in promoting sustainability and addressing educational challenges?


Reply by Chatgpt https://chat.openai.com/chat

The role of AI in promoting sustainability and addressing educational challenges can be significant. AI can help to create more effective and personalized learning experiences, support teachers in delivering high-quality education, and provide new tools and resources to enhance student learning.

In the context of sustainability, AI can help to raise awareness and understanding of environmental issues, support the development of sustainable practices and technologies, and provide insights and data that can inform decision-making around resource use and management.

Some specific ways in which AI can promote sustainability and address educational challenges include:

1 Personalized learning: AI can be used to create personalized learning experiences that cater to the needs and preferences of individual learners. This can help to improve student engagement, motivation, and achievement.

2 Adaptive assessment: AI can be used to provide real-time feedback and assessment that adapts to the individual needs and abilities of each student. This can help to identify areas of strength and weakness, and provide targeted support where it is needed most.

3 Data analysis: AI can be used to analyze large amounts of data related to environmental issues, such as climate change or biodiversity loss. This can help to identify trends, patterns, and correlations that can inform policy and decision-making.

4 Sustainability modeling: AI can be used to model and simulate the impacts of different policies and scenarios related to sustainability. This can help to predict the potential outcomes of different approaches and inform decision-making.

5 Resource optimization: AI can be used to optimize the use of resources in educational settings, such as energy or water usage. This can help to reduce waste and minimize environmental impact.

Overall, AI has the potential to play a significant role in promoting sustainability and addressing educational challenges. However, it is important to ensure that AI is developed and used in a way that is aligned with human values and goals, and that takes into account the potential risks and ethical considerations involved.

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chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Are there some places that value youth and sustainability most by designing AI to create personalized learning experiences that cater to the needs and preferences of individual learners?
 Yes, there are many places around the world that are placing a strong emphasis on using AI to create personalized learning experiences that cater to the needs and preferences of individual learners, with a particular focus on promoting sustainability and environmental awareness. 
 For example, in Singapore, the government has launched several initiatives aimed at promoting the use of AI in education, including the development of AI-powered tutoring systems and adaptive learning platforms that can help students to learn at their own pace and level. 
 In Finland, the education system has been recognized as one of the most innovative in the world, and has a strong focus on personalized learning and the use of technology to support student learning. The Finnish education system has been incorporating AI into their curriculum for a few years now, with a focus on using AI to create more personalized and adaptive learning experiences for students.
 In the United States, several universities and educational institutions have been experimenting with AI-powered learning platforms and personalized tutoring systems, including Georgia Tech, which has developed an AI-powered tutoring system called Jill Watson that can help students with their coursework and assignments.
 In addition to these examples, there are many other countries and organizations that are exploring the potential of AI to support personalized learning and promote sustainability and environmental awareness. As AI continues to evolve and develop, it is likely that we will see more and more educational initiatives and programs that use AI to support student learning and promote a more sustainable future. 

 chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Where on the web can I suggest my colleagues at ed3dao and SDG friends go to understand how the Finnish education system is incorporating AI into their curriculum? 

There are several resources available online that can provide information about how the Finnish education system is incorporating AI into their curriculum. 

Here are a few options: The Finnish National Agency for Education has a website with information about the country's education system, including its focus on digitalization and the use of technology in education. The website includes a section on AI in education, which provides an overview of how AI is being integrated into the curriculum and teacher training. 

 The Helsinki Education Hub is a collaboration between the City of Helsinki and several universities and education institutions, aimed at promoting innovation and development in education. The website includes a section on AI and education, which provides information about how AI is being used in Finnish schools and universities, as well as research and development projects related to AI in education. 

 The Finnish Education Evaluation Centre is an independent government agency that evaluates and develops the quality of education in Finland. The website includes research reports and evaluations related to the use of technology and AI in education, which can provide insights into how the Finnish education system is incorporating AI into its curriculum. 

 The University of Helsinki, which is one of the top universities in Finland, has a research group called "AI in Education" that focuses on the use of AI in teaching and learning. The website includes information about ongoing research projects related to AI in education, as well as publications and resources related to the topic. These are just a few examples of resources available online that can provide information about how the Finnish education system is incorporating AI into its curriculum. 

Your colleagues at ed3dao and SDG friends may also want to reach out to Finnish educational institutions or experts in the field for more information or insights.

Thursday, February 23, 2023

3 economic development approaches to 1 billion tropical village girls most urgent 1970 crisis

 yunus- in 1965 DR Muhmmad Yunus had earned a fulbright to vanderbilt uni (named after ny railway entrepreneur) to stidy economics; 

sidenote a century earlier infrastructure entrepreneurship had made the vanderbilts americas richest family


back down south 1965 (2 years after kennedy and medgars evers assassination )

The 1960s: The age of assassinations. ... of the American Nazi Party, was killed in 1967. So why were there so many assassinations in the 1960s in America?

it was a crazy time to have any skin color down south let alone his; still he survived and has, arguably, been the most fearless storyteller of his generation ever since (pretty unusual among Asians where face cultures can make east and west celebration of each other so hard to sustain)

few people have the personal energy of yunus - it was probably easy peasy for him to  not only master his studies but get an assiatant prof in economics at east tenssee uni; he married a a russian american Vera  birthef monica -his homeland was achieving independence through a bloody war with pakistan- he lobbied us congfress not to intervene on the side of pakistan- with freedom won he returned to teach economics at chittagong U (this was both where hus family had grown up with one of the city's leading jewelry stires and at that time the most innovative uni in his homeland - paksitan while empiring over the region for nearly 25 years had constrained local students at the capita Dhaka's Uni- 

there are some alternative accounts of these ear,y 1970s- eg during the first yeay of teaching a manine hit bangladesh -ot was the 3ed event killing over half a million people in 4 years (cyclone 1970, wae and famine)- a student asked how does what you are teaching us help with developing our new nation - yunus agreed it at all- it was the last class year he taught on the campus - inatead a group of students relocated human development economics as a practice curricula to a nearby village - ie a place without access to electricity grids- 2 leading students - female mrs begum, male dipal barua, and a prof technically de yunus senior prof latifee were to work togather for the next 36 years UP UNTIL THE 69TH BIRTHDAY PARTY OF YUNUS (reciprocating his kindness as guest of honor at my dads last pyblic birthday party royal automobile club london st james 2008) WHICH MY FANILY ACCIDENTALLY CONVENED SUMMER 2009 IN Dhaka- we welcome corrections to being a cooperation alumni of Yunus at yunusmooc.com (sadly a rumor first surfaced at yunsu 69th birhday- bad blood between and prime minster sheik hasina was to see yunus fiofiet his whole banking enterprise- by 1983 constitution a givernment bank with a byelaw requiring retirement by 650

- my understanding is that student teams around yunus first tried some water entrepreneur experiements  but in spite of quire a nifty solution which they tried turning over as a sustainable model over to village chiefs -the male chieftains profited- the intended maimly female  vilage co-workers benficaries didn't- so yunus looked at how loans in this village were assigned - he found a loan shark whose loan portfolio ripped off about 40 village mothers each of whom was trying to staryup a small busiens - famously another mrs begum wanted to make and sell hand woven baskets- yunus found fir a total of 26 us dollars he could bank for the whole group; saving them from being locked in to laon shardkom -it took a lot more worrk to work out a plan - basically serving 60 circles of 60 vlage mothers loans a week per branch -and to get a giv ordinace 1983 fir grameen bank; while there were many livelihhods that grameen satrted to replicate across circles water supply was delayed for many reasons including the sad fact that there is too much arsenic around in bangaldesgh- so in pite of rural areas often more likely to flood than to be short od water- bangaldesh water entrepeners had to wait over 35 years from nations birth to start to design sustainable vilafe services other than boiling water

polak-paul polak qualified as a psychoitarist in boulder usa- during his first few years he noticed that poverty was the main affliction of most of hos clients; so he decided to relocate his busiens focus to one of the world's most extreme labs for poverty resolution bangladesh - there he led the invention of the treadle pump for irrigating cropsd - this dindt quite fit women empowered busienses as taking loan fir a treadle pumo was bigger than those in extreme povery could support- also a treadle pump os powered by human energy - even at ther fittest a young woman could probably only pum a thord that a young man could; it trurned out that treadle pumping was a far more successful fit for kenyan farmers to end agriculture- so plolak satreted working to dinf bottom-up aid  partbersin both countries; his diaries are fascinating because he hept them about 14 years before the clintons visired yunus around 1989 (before bill's presideny)

abed from founding NGO Bangladesh's Rural Advancement Coperation) in1972 to 1983 were the only massively scaling networks women could build rural nation around - abed had been the former regional ceo for royal dutch shell - he had the connections to scale a sequence of solutions  that women building100000 village communities needed most - furst rice franchsies to end starvation ; next training every vilage mother in oral rehydration - a way to prevent infant death by diarrhea (and bad water0 - for more see abedmooc.com

so although we might well argue water is everywhere foundation to human sustainability it probably makes sense that water and sanitation appear ad sustainability dev goal 6 with SHELF :

5 she-too women building 100000 person communities

3 health last mile service'4 educationb g=foir liveleihoods  village busiensses integrated wth every other age f=group of giels action learning

17&1 partnerships in investment to end poverty

2 Food 

in any event thsi may explain why 2023 is the first time in 20 years that UN HQ Ny is taking another look - tofay can water ai and human netwroks kof water leap ahead

-see filloeing posts feb 2023 as we prep for by and worldwide sdg6 cooperation march 2023 

https://www.unwater.org/news/un-2023-water-conference


chris.macrae@yahoo.couk all reportimg errors mine alone - we're here to learn how to umporove the massive open oline cooperations around alumni of fazke abed, yunus or any top 100 worldrecordjobs co-creatir milennaisl find it most useful to ed3dao.com with




Sunday, February 19, 2023

 --can un ny march 21 to 25 water summit be first one in 46 years (last 23 of 20th C first 23 of 21sr) to live up to infra entrepreneur James E Carter

UN 2023 Water Conference

https://www.unwater.org › News

Monday, January 30, 2023

REPETITION/ REHEARSAL (humanity & mother earth's herstory -  MORAL SENTIMENTS RECURSION 1)


 WHY DID 3 PEOPLE START PUBLISHING THE 2025REPORT FUTURE HISTORY GENRE IN 1984

It began in 1980 from a discussion with my father. Having gotten a masters in Statistics from Cambridge DAMPT in 1973 (college corpus christi)  my first 7 years of experimenting with computers in education and market research led me to this scenario: one generation of parents and children would need to be responsible for humanity's greatest innovation (and maths : data science) challenge. You can download free all of the following - if you cant find the chapters you want ask me chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk. 

Also, since 2008 we have been playing a game worldrecordjobs with students - whose general knowledge and leading edge practice knowhow do they need to be cooperation alumni of to be the first sustainability generation. For example Steve Jobs launched his version of personal computing with an add lest design opposite to orwell; and he later explained why the last thing youth leaders of joyful (nurturing) communities needed all their brightest brains trapped in : 4 year certificate degrees that also form a nation's largest class of debtors

books, files, television programmes, computer information and telecommunications will merge. We'll have this portable object which is a television screen with first a typewriter, later a voice activator attached. Afterwards it will be minaturised so that your personal access instrument can be carried in your buttonhole, but there will be these cheap terminals around everywhere, more widely than telephones of 1984. The terminals will be used to access databases anywhere in the globe, and will become the brainworker's mobile place of work. Brainworkers, which will increasingly mean all workers, will be able to live in Tahiti if they want to and telecommute daily to the New York or Tokyo or Hamburg office through which they work. In the satellite age costs of transmission will not depend mainly on distance. And knowledge once digitalised can be replicated for use anywhere almost instantly.

Debating this with some scottish diaspora friends (as well as journalists representing worldwide diversity)  who had worked in majority of nations and hemispheres we hypothesesed millennials would need to be supported (by the deepest data ever linkedin) with the biggest jobs/livelihood change ever : 1 billion new tech jobs 1 billion green jobs 1 billion community last mile service/building jobs as well as 1 billion old jobs. Thats what the market of jobs needed the elder half  of the digital cooperation world map by 2025 as prime time

Father had been doing a survey of von neumanns with economist journalists since 1951 - what goods can peoples unite with 100 time more tech- so this unprecedented innovation challenge fitted with his view that roughly speaking communicationss tech (see ITU 1865) had changed at ever accelerating speed since 1865 ; we could look at what happened to the first two 40 year periods 1945-1905-1865 see 2 world wars that both his and his father's lives as students had been interrupted by (as had most europeans of the generation born circa 1923 and 1890. So if we looked at 1865-2025 as a game of 4 quarters we needed to learn from any mistakes for the first 3 quarters before we passed over most decision making to artificial intel as the only real time mediators of data streaming live from every gps on every human behavior and every natural reaction. Orwell had already written big brothers end game which chatting with vin neumann in 1951 all the greats of maths so as a most likely scenario. No mathematician expected an in between scenario - in designing the worldwide stage milebbials woul be trapped in the wrst of times or freed by the best f times.

While father wrote up the philosophy anthropology and economics of this in ways that adam smithians or keynesains had previously shared; he also asked for a young science fiction writer to tell stories of individuals caught up in change like humanco  born to a peruvian village far away from civilisation or a young man who transformed himself from small time crook to the greatest hero of saving humans from cyber risks

Thursday, January 26, 2023

2025 Report Cooperation Edition

 My father Norman survived spending his last days as a teenage navigator allied bomber command Burma. Similarly his father had his education interrupted by world war 1. 

Dad's way of coping with this experience actioned 2 wings : search for optimistic connectors through life, his own top secret mediation advantage - google maps in his head 60 years ahead of any other global or local influencer. For ecample this matters in selecting what infrastructure - shipping training plane-ing car-ing spacing do global vilagers most need depending where on N(EW)S their people link in.Are the tricontiment old world's 2 peskiest islands Japan and UK fit for sustainability generation. Are the 2 norther continental roofs- Canada and Russia? Do the coastal belts of Asia where 65% of humans live connect pacific oceans win-win trades smoothly - both in physical and knowhow trading speheres? What the Talnatuc's UFIG up to in shaping what Eueodolar currency is applied to? What is happening to the futures of the peopels of teh equator's mix of desert and oil wells that the French sometimesd call MENA?Back before Empires racced to integrate old and new worlds trading around the med sea was probably the most adbavantaged place to be- why has this become the 21st sea of refugees. How do we inckude the 10% of the peoples south of the equator- before the 2 great canals their world trade routes were pivotal not yet so in 21st C. As a general tule of the last half of a millennium the north has extracted natural and living resources of the south for its own slef interts- is the defining chalenge of tiday's under 30s to reconcile this. If so do today's over 30s have more to learn than to examine your children on?   

Dad determined to spend his life meidating intergenerational good N(EW)S and social actions -naturally beyond at and within borders. His first 7 years as an adult learner were exceptionally privileged. He was in Keynes last class at Cambridge where Keynes explained that the biggest danger to our chukdren and grandchildren is economists becoming shirt-term and hired by the richest. Dad's mindset revisited system thinkers back to Adam Smith segmenting those (sometimes called the Scorist school) on Keynes side. Over time father coined 2 genres future historians and Entrepreneurial Revolution to try to help recursively debate who's purpose of economics are we being expoenetailly locked into. Dad was hired by The Economist. Editor Geoffrey Crowther had jyst published the centenary edition of The Economist 1943-1943. He tested father on founder james Wilson attempts to be the chnage to the english constitution that a n initially 20 something Queen Victiria needed to transforn from slavemaking and genocide-mastered empire to commonwelath. In 151 The Economist (based in London's St James) seconded father to New York for a year. At Princeton he met Von Neumann who asked would economics journalists be interested in the scoop : what goods can peoples unite with 100 times more tech per decade. In particular Neumann asked norman to keep questioning 2 extremely risk opportunities nd threats, Of the maths Goats energy projects Von Neumann said- these will make scientists both the most hated and wanted of people. As datger of computing which Von Neumann termed the design of Artificial Intel(ligence): one day this will comound ultimate challenges : extinction or a world in which each next child born has a fir chnace at life

Von Neumann had less than 6 years to live when he and dad linkedin. They shaed a scenario which we may views as human relationship games over four 40-year quarters. With today's modal age on earth being 30, we can think of 40 years as space for intergenerational mappong- what knowhow did a parenting generation educate their next generation to advance our species unique purpose as earthlings. If the telecommunication age as a global force had orignally hubbed across a Swiss coridor of neighors (ITU Internationa Telecomes Union) 1864, we can see that the first 2 quarters of global connectivity undortunately climaxed in 2 world wars. So if we play this game the search becomes can the two halves 2025-1984-1945 unite beings in milennials being the first sustainability generation not those who see parenting extinction generations as ever less worthy of life's time.


When dad died in 2010, primarily 4 movemnts of people contacted me and kindly offered to action remembrances:

The Economist Board Room

A netwirk inspire by Mandela who were trying to design new virtually free universities for net generation Africans. Father had first coined the term Entrepreeurial Revolution as part of hos stream of annual surveys- 1968 what help did peoples out of south africa need the rest of the world to link in?

Adam Smith Scholars in Galsgow who offered to take over my fathers archves as well as those of some of hise heros. Tow year before father died he hosted his last public birthday pary with 40 influencers at Royal Automobile Club St james to quiz chief giest Muhammad Yunus on what were his friends and influencers up to? Glasgow's version of this quiz was blended into the 250th moral sentiment summits of Smithian researchers. Consequences were the laynch of the first virtually free nursing college and the emergence of 2 h=jouranls for new universities: social bsuienss and new economics. June 2023 sees the 265rt Moral Sentiments summit updare- one reason why a draft overview of this book celebrates this timeline.

The fourth rembrance woyld have cheered father most, During the first decade of Neumannreserach of 100 times Mo(o)re, Borma udentified the Happan Coastal belt south as one of the fie first 5 corridors of peoples privileged to be first eplores of 100 times more tech. The Jpan ambassor to bangladesh suggested the most exc=icting way to see how 1 billion poorest vailge women had since 1970 sort ti be inckuded in hunans kindest furture was to hist roundtables at the Japan Embassy in Bangladesh. I was told that the women who had bulit rural Bangldesh had since 1970 gravitated around a foremr Royal Dutch Shell regioanl ceo and Glasgow U Alumn Sir Fazle Abed. What could be mapped by listening to 1) his 40 years og knowhow; 2 the reason why since 2001 he had founded a cooperation university celebraiung both global and local advances in families communal development, what he saw as legacy chalenges (was this in some way a 60 year uodte on Von Neumann's legacy requests)

So the coperation sections of this bookn are sequences like this

part 1 cataloguing cooperations since 2015 United Nations 2 framing of suatainbke goals that any egov or gov2.0 can join in benchmarking if peoples value the  meta-innovationtrainagularisaon

end poverty - ie design a world in which each next gorl born has fair chnace in life

expland a places moiddele class

go greeb 


part 2 rewinds how did coperation mapoing of 1 billion girls bridge community development of 25 years of h

having no access to electricity with 25 years to late in 20th C 

with 25 years of leaping through their version of wnreepwnueual reviutions-

scaling start of 21st C with g2 mobile and solar

reaching out to web 2 partners from subprime onwards

bridging the eras of trump putin covid death of fazle abed with meta-cooperations of 2023 to 2030. ( Back when vilage firls firrst encounted solar and mobile, Bil gates wrte the way Ahead in the middle of the web1 era as he shaped it. Said Bill always less chnage hapens than you can plan for 3 yeras always far more than it is possible to plan for in 7 years. Dare we design the next 7 years of m=media, tech, science and human community development round his interesting hypothesis?

Part 3 since 2008 we have been playing a student union game WEL. This was partly stimulated by sampling 2000 social busiens books and 10000 youtube style dvds nade summer 2008 when the Nobel committee helped yunus create his museum of poverty with all of his favoeite partners of 2008 linking in, as well as helping Glashow stage yunus 70th birthday wish party 2010 Interdependence weekend July4 WEJ's rules are simple - seatch for a pack of at most 54 playing cards uniting your colege yera in terms of people you'd like to be colaboration alumni of - at least as far as being aware of what their life's purspoe is and how can the younger half of the world cheer them on. So here we feature some of the pakyers cards. Please jotre these includ people who may be controbversial like Elon Musk. Millennials make space for seeing him as a top 50 brain where the chalenges he dares take on are how they appraise him not whether all of his companies are wall street darlings.

In an appendix section , I look back at some of my father's most challenging writings. What didnt comes to pass in the optimistic ways he asked us to linkin. SAt the start of the fourth od dad and neumann's fourth game period, I ho=hjoined father in penciling the first publication in the 2025 report genere- our alternative to Orwell's systems end game of big brother. Here is the sumary of this report that fomrer schience editor of The Economist Viscount Ridley wrote in dad's remembarnce. I will try at the end of this book to explain crossrads where we the huamn intellects of thsi worls missed the chance to prep the human intelects. For example dad hoped that public braidcatsres would bridge that period of time when the next generation spent more time interacting digital than spectating tv with a reality game. ...

Until the last breadth humans make it seems to me that expoenetial crossriads are there to unite intellects human and aetificia around. Can we find a cooperation orbit thats more promising than wehre the 21st c has spun us to date? chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Glasgow NY Dhalka Tokyo Hong Kong Singapore and 20 other livesdmatter.city of 2020s

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Monday, January 23, 2023

 Do you know each other?

Rosalia : back in 1999 Jack sold his 40 businesses in singapore and has built most extraordinary collaboration around sdg6 sanitation and water- his world toilet day became part of UN calendar nov 19. Soon In New York march 22, UN hosts first  unhabitat and undesa summit round his maps of water/sanitation connect every life. Rosalia will you or anyone from team ecuador be in Ny in March 


Jack: I get a little confused by habitat cop and other green Un summits. Soon after 2015sdgs, Former President of Ecuador Rosalia helped host  habitat3 https://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/ I had first met her MIT convergences 2010. Jack have you heard of quadir family - they were 1995 origin of mobiles for poorest and remain connectors of eg brac's www.bkash.com. The summit they assembled in 2010 was co-sponsored by amazing reeta roy of mastercardfoundation- what an honor to be there with rosalia and to take notes  . Certainly emulated yunus first social business summit berlin 2009. 

Rosalia hope you are all well. Jack will  also be in Brazil in April... I'm still in DC region though new york seems usa last best chance of Unite peoples cooperation. Or do you recommend some DC institute I could study?

Saturday, December 31, 2022

was chat leap 2022 as important transformation of humans intel as west coats other 3 years leaps in 21st

 It is arguable that west coast usa has been an epicentre of 5x leaps in tech every 3 years since 2001 thanks to combined multipliers of satellite data distribution and coding engineering deep data computing. (Chats may have been a way in 2022 to popularise progress that big tech had administered but that actually means we need to double check how each period builds on others). Countries succeeding in the educational challenge of multiplying each others intelligence agency will improve millennials brainpower as well as celebration of most exciting time to be alive & co-create)

WERE YOU & YOURS FULLY INVOLVED IN EACH OF THESE LEAPS

around 2002 steve jobs pixar and jensen hunag started coding pixels instead of just binary' susequently choice of what to code so that machines and humans learn in sync has becdome foundation of every way millennials brain power may chnage skills acquistion

by 2005 the application of pixels had gone beyond games and rendering hollywood imact to patterns radiology ai needs - soon all maps surgeons need before opening you up- health and intelligence havent stopped advancing each other exponentially since (and jobs was beginning to design bothy a mobile university and a camera in a phone so that satellites data map wherever humans and earth interact)

by 2008  jensen huang wasnt the only taiwan amerucan family  changing stanford-asia deep chip intelligence; the yangs were transferrining most of their yahoo money; an interdicsiplinary lab in stanfirds engineering quad, a first yahoo professor of chnaging X of chip power; connections with softbank and indeed twinning asian and stanfird tech students; jerry was starting a cloud busienss and student cloud startup competitions in parallel the tasia were investing in neursocience labs in bothe stanfird and yale; grads like andrew ng and daphne koller wree founding coursera; stanfird alumni google was soon to partner samsung in mobile phones standard; fei fei li was to be headhunted; the doerrs headhunted lila nbrahim to manage their education portfolio

2009-11 jensen huang family actually started deep learning lab in stanford in 2009; both fei fe li idea that coding machine understanding of 5 human senses before mobile autonomous machines and hassabis view that pappetern games could go lot further than radio9logy ai - in fact to 250 million proten databank ai by 2021; jense now saw nvidia as a human ai games company

2012 it is said that ai came out of winter with li's imagenet producing a step change winner in machine elarning (alexnet using a nvidia chipa and a neural network algorityhm); from that second on every vc had to be in ai; google was first to snap up hassabis deep mind; 

2015 mush chose to be first buyer of nvidia chip wuth 80 million transistirs; just he would later be one of fikrst biildedrs of nvidia 25X mone energy effiicient suoercomputer; while musk was woking on tesla electric car and some sellf dribving features; it was nvidia synfinacte platform that was buiulding road identity visualisation almost all self-driving car hire firms foundation map around; hunag has been cosistent self-driving cars are just fisrt mass markets of humanoids in every street; but these humanoids cant just be trained in chat but physical ai; 2025's computex celebrated nvidia deep mind and pizar coming together round newton ai training robots in touch and other physical motions baby's brains occupy their first years with


in 2018 fei-fei li testify to congress chats are coming but as only a popular app of nvidia million time deeper data comouting; just as chat is only p0art any valuable humanoid; moreover any place's diversity of development and culture offers unique data sovereignty; (cvhats are good at translating languages but much more deeply so if generative ai represnts human generations colocation; another real deal is reseoaning data plugins; imagine if national health servoces made a datavase on lif histories of thise who get cancer tagged by where they grew up, what local diets were etc; perhpas 80% of caners are preventible but only by chat pluhhed to deepest cancer data; 

in 2022 we'd all ben isolated by covid so a chat tool seemed especially welcome; but to the hyperscalers it changed visioning web3 over night- from eta verse to deep digital twin verses; nobody has promoted a clearer view of the peoples ai than king charles in launching ai world series nive 2023


INTERGENERATION OF HUMANITY - DO NOT LOCK IN ONLY ONE GLOBAL SYSTEM Artificial system design started with engineers in scotland in 1760. From the start Adam Smith celbrated engieering tested at continetal scale of USA not just the scale London would rule o0ver. Equally there are basic things- all articificial system designs use energy. (Ideally at some stage of world population eg 5 billion plus that energy source would not compete with clean water and food humans need. So its worth asking when iceland invented geothermal in the 1970s to counter rise in oill pricws, Kenya was first country it shared this with. Ask grok, what could have happened if west6 coast usa had started to adopt geothermal in 1970s. Might wildfires have been less. Might data center locations be simpler. Or indeed if the whole arctic circle had accessed geothermal intel. Please note I understand much world trade of things has been driven by east west shipping. But it seems most wars have south-notrth dimensions. Would this have been so if geotermal intel had been open sourced or even posted as one of the first world wide webs?

Sunday, November 27, 2022

ahead of 2023 resolutions, can we get zoom quorum for 2020s number 1 women empowerment and digital world connectors?

 dear Vincent would you be able ti join us zoom dc 8th from about 9.30 am WST - john and I will be chatting with hk jeanne lim at 9.30- back in spring she opened our eyes to race to scale women empowerment on the metaverse and as she had sold sophia into be the un's sdgs robot envoy she was already in middle of knowing all the challenges of the sdgs and digotal un2 roadmapping and ai deep maths challenges; she told us that lugging 7 cases to assemble sophia on un stafes was crazy as soon as avatars could do messaging 24/7- she also has berkeley psychology degree and is an asian yoga retreat leader for anything that womens cooperation uni want to go digital or embed/app community bottom up servant leadership gov2 - jesnne knows the nexus within hong kong gamers and others concerned with both digital media, landless youth celebrities and ai being diversely deep and ethical; its probable that the female ethics director of microsoft in san francsico will join in at 10am est - if first knew her when at georgetown in 2008 she organssed student union concerned with womens acid victmes; dec 8 is profiably our best chance this year of getting a quorum though we'd love to update with you t any time- there my be a part 2 on arts from about 11; and I am still trying to get the female founder of www.ed3dao.com to meet john - what she proved 2 weeks ago is that those who understand gaming platforms can now host college level training and stackable certifiication without bricks-costly college campuses- arizona state which was always supposed to be the tech connector of SOROS osun has donated 5 by $2000 tickets to ed3dao to the big asu partners summit april 2023 fortuitously themed as ed on the edge https://www.asugsvsummit.com/ and the sandbox subnetwork of animoca brands and asia's mr metaverse yat siu out of san francisco and hong kong also sees e3dao as its core education partner

Monday, November 21, 2022

breaking valley asks if we can host state of world zoom dec 8

 Dear Makoto (wow great news dec1- can we see draft un speech), Jeanne Samira Vriti Vincent -please could you join us for a zoom  8th dec 7am us west coast time  -...........................................- I will be writing individually with friend john kiehl whose in his 50th year out of new york and boston of hosting probably the most human/arts recording studio is usa soundtrackny; ...among several asks - in addition to who values artists and youth's heroines changing the 2020s world, who would like to write up/co-publish 3 pagers on year in 2023+ web and other futures educators and tech can help guterres celebrate in connecting gaps between younger and older half of world; a month ago i was in hong kong where several amazing teams are not just publishing visions but meta-scaling them; jeanne's www.beingai.com is transferring legacy of robot sophia helping curate UN launch of sdgs to women empowerments meta-avatar curating that purpose of the verse; vriti has just hosted 3 day summit around her nft (association of up to 6000  youth futures co-creators) www.ed3dao.com- to me it showed anything i would ever want my mind shaped by at a university can now be online at dozens of parallel lecture rooms and after action debriefing meetups; and in happy digital worlds students can own their skills dashboards with personal mind trainers--  if thats how smartest 18 to 21 yeras olds demand their time  is spent and UN future summits are staged 23-24- what about the rest of k-20 time of teachers and youth in a blockchainable world of whose courses and community service cooperations just do (what with) ITu? many generations of my scots diaspora family have been most influenced by asian human development in part because that was the intergenerational story since 1860 that the economist continued searching as legacy of its founder's impact on the uk royal family- queen voctria asked founder james wilson to go charter banking and taxes for quarter of beings on india subcontinet 1859- he only issued one state of nation survey before dying of dirrhea calcutta 1860; it took 112 yeras before women empowerment banking/edu for community building gravitated that out of the new nation of bangladesh- youth have been reporting views on that to us since 2007-dad's legacy circulating 2000 yunus books, 10000 dvds from 2008; our greatest support cam from hapan ambassdor to dhaka who organsied 2 rembrance diners chaired by sir fazle abed- two of 16 trips graduate jouranlists and I made to case study real and digital cooperations abed platformed; vincent has led 4 yeras of abed's university legacy; makoto's day job is nippon life government affairs; jeanne and vriti are scaling extrordinary meat-futures aligned to frameworks guterres has planted in every op division of un; samira and I discussed women victims of acid ttacks while she was postgraduating from Georgetown 2008; perhaps her story of whats next can start off our zoom ; ??  also collecting stioies at www.2025report.com - a genre that emerged from consequence of dad meeting von neumann 1951- they agreed journalism's greatest scoop might be what good can peoples unite with 100 times more tech per decade - thks JW https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/from-hawick-to-hawick-the-story-of-the-economist-founder-james-wilson-121012001578_1.html

7 year future itches- 180 ro 260 yer moral histiriues and millennials as sustainability generation

  thank you for suggesting 7am pacific dec 8- let me see if i can arrange a zoom quorum - I will try and ask people to share a short profile- does their life's purpose  gravitate a 7 year itch to 2030- what if any huge ops and threats have digital webs/life brought to human experience since 1990; ideally this summary would be in a version people are happy shared on linkedin and lunchclub type or similar formats; they can always cluster in smaller private groups; for me 7 year itch matches all of UN sdg deadlines, under 30 hopes for kinder and better community building worlds, what education-tech transformation is now needed and main story of Bill Gates in his mid 1990s book Way Ahead; he made the exponential auditing observation - for planners the puzzle is less change happens in 3 years than might be expected; much more change happens in 7 years;  ; 2023 is 180th year since scots of adam smith mindset founded the economist to help queen victoria transform empire round goals 2 1 - eg end starving the irish, design bank and taxes by and for quarter of beings on india subcontinent - Economist founder james wilson had some success with food getting corn laws repealed but when queen victora authorised charter bank of india - he only issued one state of indian continent report before dying of diarrhea a year after arriving in calcutta; in effect it took 112 years before women empowerment banking by fazle abed sorted out both end death by diarrhea and aid 2.0 through which up to a billion asian village mothers develop 2020-1970; I want to publish something on this in 2023 either as a book firm or a shared futures conversation; also friends at glasgow university inted june 2023 to mark 265th ketnote of smiths moral sentiments with microedusummit - one immediate goal of the zoom who wants to publish a 3 pager on what to design into web 3 or meta - obviously I am just rehearsing aloud what dec 8 could dialogue around-if you have another way to frame whats next. I'd love to hear that; my fathers life at the economist tried to action a scoop he and von neumann agreed when they met in 1951- if the legacy of the Goats of maths was 100 times more tech per decade- what goods could peoples unite? we are arguably in the last round of playing our species greatest game; this also matches keynes final chapter of general theory of employment, interest, money

Thursday, November 10, 2022

2022 = 60th year since dad Norman at The Economist started connecting asian and western youth as if sustainability depended on this

 NormanMacrae.net - Aiming to end 2022 (leap forward with second half of UN sdgs race 2023 eg www.sdgmetaverseprize.org  designed to celebarate 10000 most exciting youthful storytellers of goals and actions of sustainabliity generation)  with lots of celebration of asian mediated solutions which  every western millennial and educator needs to know exist - and are ready for web3 decentralisation anywhere in need

this weekend www.ed3dao.com - an extraordinary edtech summit is led by asian american in New York Vriti Saraf; if it hadnt been for covid likely she would still be at the whittle school in shanghai - certainly new york and east coast education's gain

if you look at www.twitterversal.com or www.daoroyals.com we look at many ways that Guterres Un2.0 would not ecist with asian ed tech starting up digitk ciperation acriss the UN in 2016


interesting too is the Un league table of egov- 



fascinating whos leaping up the rankings becasue most of teh basiic of empowering citizends with digital gov can be replicated from anywhere that first shows how - singapre is one place whose egov solutions almost every others natiuons citizens can gain from knowing about

next year will be 40th since dad and I sent 2025report to the publsjers - how to escape orweel's big broth endgame - assembling final edition of that still work to be done on finding escape routes (from hell's like Putin , next void or nature's wrath) - wonder if must wil; koin us with twitterversal case; if noy how about DAOROYALS.com or my extraidinary debriefs last month from EconomistHongKong.com


estonia and slovenia are other stars as their versions of AI help augment human skils - japan has partnered with slovenai and teh 14 UN coleges to spead these clebrations

wow and thansk everyobe chris www.normanmacrae.net www.economisthongkong.com www.daoeoyals.com and lessons from billion poorest asian mothers www.abedmooc.com

Monday, October 10, 2022

 I have DAMTP MA in statistics and live in Bethesda. I would like to discuss 2025 report last edition with you. Dad. The Economist's Norman Macrae, and i first co-authored this in 1984. We argued for the hypothesis that edtech needed to be integral to millennials being first sustainability generation.   https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/death-of-a-great-optimist/ We timelined web1, web2 likely arrival dates. Our main hope for 2020 that children identities would be supported by skills dashboard and digital personal lesson trainers has not yet materialised but can happen if educators and metaverse wizards get together. www.sdgmetaverseprize.org as first year round youth network addressing this is a start. My father's last 3 years began 16 trips where I sherpa's young graduate reportes to Bangladesh to understand the socio-economic miracle of Poorest Billion Village Womens nation building 1972-2022. While we were first shown round Bangladesh Xmas 2007 by Dr Yunus with whom we sampled 2000 of his social business partnership book, Fazle Abed and Brac University became the biggest data story I have ever researched. It makes 1980s global research for MIT market database, and subsequent research projects for Price WaterHouse Coopers and world leading Ad Agencies seem superficial - at least in terms of data for poverty alleviation and rural adaptation   and so 2015+ curricula of sdgs and edtech. Father had met Von Neumann on 1951 and been instructed to train journalists in the scoop - what good will peoples do with 100 times more tech every decade to the 2020s?.  It is not widely known that it was health and edtech alumni of Abed who at UNGA 2016's first annual review of sdg4 launched digital cooperation uniting UN:NY, Paris and Geneva (where tech, health and trade expertise has been twinned since 1945). This is the genesis of Guterres UN2 Digital Roadmapping https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/ongoing-work. Embedding edtech data quality as fast as metaverse rolls out main explain our species future. Von Neumann;s daughter would also like to help- perhaps launching AI Hall of Fame - if suitable.  Chris Macrae +1 240 316 8157. My family also knows the main BBC nature broadcasters and (now) King Charles informal support through such channels as www.ashden.org, Royal Geographical Society and Youth Climate Champions as a British consular program allied to English language teaching. I can send you current publisher proposal for 2025 Report -last edition . But this is not much about me but connecting deep enough cooperation platforms east-west, south-north. Do you think, for example, Wolfram's mathematica ought to be involved? Chris Macrae +1 240 316 8157

Friday, October 7, 2022

 UNPECEDENTED INNOVATION

The 2020s is 10th decade humans have been connecting 100 times more tech per decade. Only this technology can resolve every extinction risk facing our species- notably the UN's SDGs announced in 2015. 

Its blind or bad application can also race us towards extinction. Indeed world war 2 was the earliest demonstration of himans are capable of very bad tech apps

The pace of tech change accelerated to 100 times multiplier around the GOATS of mathematics: Von Neumann , Einstein, Turing et al (see eg my father's biography of von neumann 1993 or a new one in 2022.

The physical power of Engineering (beyond horsepower) began around alumni of Glasgow U James Watt 1760. Fortunately Glasgow U also provide a great systems mapmaker Adam Smith  to write up both the last systems maps of the world before engines (moral sentiments) and the first 16 year summary of impacts of engines on humans (The Advantages of Nations). In June 2023, Galsgow's 265 celebration of Adam Smith moral sentiments is being branded microeducationsummit in celebration of first 15 yeras of studying billion asian womens human develoment economiscs inytroduced to 1000 Glasgwegains at 25oth moral sentiments convocation. This has inspired 2 new journals - new economics and social busienss -each includes a vibrant youth sub-editorial panel which is concerened with voing deep interdisvciplinary questions.

WORLDWIDE BIRTH OF TELE-ENGINEERS

 About a century after Watt's birth of engineering,  it was electricity's bridge between power and TELE (communications) hubbed out of central Europe which upped the rise of technology change. In 1865 Switzerland was chosen for the foundation of the ITU (the first tele product was telegraph but today we know T=Telecoms). For long distance even worldwide communications to work cooperation was needed around one evolving standard; and indeed place governments soon needed to licence out the commons of the airwaves. Most industries beginning with tele (telegraph, telephone, telex , television, telecoms, Satlloite1G-5G  ...;) or rad (radar, radio..) multiply each others consequences. Thats what connectivity does. The consequences include what mathamaticians can chaos. As Einstein's maths proved, nature is always interacting connections at more micro levels than man's science can figure. The Covid pandemic is just one illustration of why humans can no longer afford world eladers ignorant if the King Canute finding - the most powerful man in the world is no match for natures waves. Mathematically this means that professions which make judgements by bordering out extrenalities to their hypotheses are now compunding potentially terminal risks. Will transparency be brought to professions which historically societies gave monpoplot=y licences to conditional to Hippocratic Oath do no harm.

My father met Von Neumann in 1951 and was asked whether he could mentor weekly newpaper jourmalists at the Economist in the world most valuable question: what good will peoples connect with 100 times more tech per decade? Neumann advocated the century long timeline 1930s to 2020s. He worked night and day on positive possiblitiies such as computing between war's end 1945 and his death from nucliear induced cancer 1957. In a game of top 52 alumni to linkin updated annually at worldrecordjobs.com since 2008, Neumann remains an essential nomination for anyone involved with sustainability reality. We host this game as a survey we can learn 360 degree contributions from but Neumann is one of the true worldwide anchors to our hypothesis of what gravitates advancing the human lot 

Von Neumann clarified some specific challenges. First his generations of mathematicains wanted their keagcy to be goods not bads they had mainly spent their lives on in the nuclear arms race. Second it was computings new fusion that offered a chance for good to race agead of bad. Neumann clarified the opportuniy of good was way above zero sume models of huan exchnages. For examples when life critical knowhoo is shared and app's that multiplies value in use unlike consuming up things which is constrained to being at best a zrero sum game.

Neumann also clarified that expereiemntal access to 100 times more leaps would not be evenly distributed geographically. So would places open source good? Specifically Von Neumann notes show that he hoped that most patents with his new technologies would last a maximum of 6 months. His logic 6 months give such a partnership lead in networking value that if you are advancing good, you would not want more than 6 months patent protection

The irst 15 yeras that Economist journalists included NNeumann's questioninh=ng in what The Economist called a severe contest of leadership seemed to demostarte some amzing goods:

Alumni of Boralug were the first connectirs of a tech "crop science" that offered 10 times more local production of staple foods. Much of the Asian two thirds of the world's beings needed this knowhow to prevent starvation while they also tried to go beyond mostly being colonised. Deming showed the Jpanese that if a product eg cars depends on 4000 engineering parts contimois impmrovement can be optimally mapped around sme networks (eg 4000 innovatirs) than one comany trying to control each parts manufaturing innovation. By being the continous goodsd assembled at the epicentre of the parts networ, a company could generate far more value for itself and with small entrepreneurial startups. A twist to this idea came when Japan was also the epiebtre of the container revolution offering 10 times more efficieny to docking. Suddenlt transsborder win-win trading models emerged- see the map japan , korea, south, taiwan hk, singapore all gleefully recorded in The Economist from 1962's first survey Consider Japan. To dad who had spent his last days a s a teen navigatirr in allied bomber command Burma there was a particular joy that the epace umbrella around Jpan was becoming the epicentre of two win-win economic models that all Asia Rising needed to advance beyond subsietence living. The Economist called these rural keynesianism and Coastal Roadsters.

It was indeed a japnese order from a calculatpt manufacturedr that caused Intel to invent the programmable chip. Intel's Gordon Moore clarifies his company didnt want to become over dependednt on one chip design. Iyt was also Moore's Law that became the first publishe example of a tech industry committed to 100 time more icapability every decade.  The Legacy of Von Neumnn had by 1960 been grounded around 2 AI Labs: out of stanford (Inlel's region) facing the pacific and 70% of peoples whsoe world trade is shiped there and ouut of MIT facint the Atlantic around which about 25% of peoples trades are shipped. I have left 5% unclassified (eg those ldepending on arctic circle resources) though you can play with these numbers and in nuemma's logic they would need to inetract positively anyhow.

Kennedy had been the first worlld leader to joyfully offere future generation moon shts: 10+ year visions to celebarte the coming 100 fold tech apoplication too.


Meanwhile back at the birth of the United Nation was the digital twinning out of geneva of ITU and world multi-win trade mapping UNCTAD and world health while UN H in NY led policy making around such human goals as trust/safety, inclusion, rights and service of oublic goods.

Although the 1960s had been set up for potential mediation advances, a lot went wrong -assination of america's most passioate futiure eladers, the start of the cold war in which America and Russia were more interested in signing up dictatirs than seeing poorest places people sustainable growth. In my fathers case to distinguish mediation of economics from a new shirt-term numeroligist, he started ebcouarging Economist Journalists to debate the coming of globalisation around future hostirians and entrepreneurial revolution. 

to my family and friends the byptodut of satellite telcoms was far the most valauble connectir of 100 time more. telecommuiting was one idea reheradsed in the 1960s Economist. The importace of new media maximising life critical knowhow netwirking could be pivotal to Von Neumann alumni. Unfortunately this is not really how mass global television evolved. Futher more system choices Nixom made : taking the paer dolar off teh gold stanadrd, starting the expoenetial rise of colege fees were not conguent with helping next genrrations multiply the ultimate local good- ending poverty sowherever the next child is boirn she has a fair opportunity to thrive. 

In 1984, I hekped dad publish the first 2025 report- asking what the furst 2 web area would bring from 1990. As you can see from this robituary review by The Economist former science eidtor Viscoiunt Ridkey: futrure histirain friends timed the tech  consequences offered by web1,2 reasonable accurtely but many of society's most urgent sustainability goals have so far been overshot

In this regard what happened in 2016 is potentailly the greatest game chnager I have ever seen. One group reviweing the first year of sdg4 education reacted abnormally to the news that there was no chnace of achieving the goal unless a lot more fundraising was done. They asked what would happen if education was reponsible for connecting all the pardctitioners embedded in the Un branches starting with a fusison of gebeva's tech trade and health practice leaders with the headquarters policy making, yoiuth futures Unicef and UNESCO's associated remit out of paris with the oecd. What has happened so far is a playing board with 9 pieces for a compete revolution in government to empower service to the peopels instead of voicing over them. HAVE A LOOK ANS EE IF THERE ARE NYP;AYING PECES YOUR STUDENTS AND ETACERS, Prensnts and communities can appky to con veumanns challenge.

I interpret this as opening the door to devating 101 ways education can save us from extbiguisk=hing our next gerations. If we are going to do this we need to celebrate those who have found ways to help the very poorest leapfrog through waht can now be classified as the 5 eras of tele

people without ekecrticity people with electricity and tele but not digital 2-way webs

web1

web 2

wgat we are designing in 2020s web3 aka metverse; almots every expertise nay have a diferent name for blockchain deep dta innovations - so decentralised finance is one huge example. Whats intersting to me is to comile a premeier league tabvle of citiznes and inddeed rural vilage nwetorkers who see web3 and the ssutainabilitybgoals as last chnace opprtunities. Meanwhile instiyutions inside the UN likke its Uniceversity with 14 national branches in have become key investment areas eg by Jpapan which is into year 60 of being celebrated by enetrepreneurial revolution economists as an epicenhtre of asia rising models

Hong Kong Estonia Slovenia Mongolia (ITU shiterlansd parteners - since 1865 globl connecetiviyty

with einstein sinec 1920 intellectual cooperation

From 1945 UN ditgital twin with neighboring imapctsb of health and trade 

how 1g to 5g evolved from late 1970s

from 2003 3 monts in evey teay summit on infprmatio soevieties ie web 2 fy=utires

from 2018 ai for good as two of 9 revolutionary dynamics with edu digital coperation of UN digiral roadmappin; unlike wsis aiforgood sled leap to 24.7 zoom world

in 2022 itu with xprize had started first year round youth copetition sdgmetaverseprize.org

guterres has called for yeras 22-2--24 to host future summits and to make youjng er hallf of teh worlds voice equaly to the elders haf in asking what goods can we do next

Enter the leapfrog modelleyr whose 50 yeras work supported human develomen of 1 billaion asian vilage mothers and inspired 3 of the main royal families reponsible for mapping post-colonial reparations across asia UK Netherlads Japan

Have a look at 30 coperation mapped by frineds of the half century of leap frog work linkedin to 1 billion asian womens place building by one time royal duucy shell regional ceo Fazle Sbed

add in yunus testimony

-see ho were abed top 50mpartners at time of death including giterreres jim kim leader of the sdg4revolution band, abdul latif whose sponsorship ar=tb MIT turned rearch of abed worl into the nobel economisc field of 2019; see also diary of where debates on how tranformational can egove be - mongollia led 2 day zoom of that spet 2022; indonesia b=g20 and india g20 offere asia 3 first comers global stages for impacting chnage in what education does next