what are the expoenetial (system) drivers of human development and is there a way our of orwell's bog brither end game

the drivers questions has different answers:

cultures and religions since before and after the yera 0 on the roman calendar

numerical and langgiage systems - gee as a mathematician I am glad arabians replaced roman numbers

late 15th c when spome europenas started realising they could navigate a globe of old and new worlds- oddly this becamme a game of grabbing or controling other people's lands to the benefit of white europeans

from 1760s development of those who had access to engines

in writing the 2025 report looking foward to the next 40 yeras to 2025 and back to world war 2- we wanted to explore how lide abd livelihood depended on what networking opportunities you were born into and we valued mapping 5 webs that interact with such flows. Our maps draw on a particular stream of intel - this was given to my father had been asked by von neumann to train economist journalits in the biggest scoop being what will people do with 100 times more tech every decade 1930s to 2020s

we saw emergence of 3 webs 1 form 1990, 2 as defining milllials hopes from early on in 21st C; the 3rd as the 21st came of age in the 2020s; in 1984 the kanguage of webs barely existed nor did much structure in terms of goals that expoentially explain sustainmability or extinction; the economist had been born by london scot japmes wilson around the 2 goals engd hunger ; and end poverty; though his life proved the need for end death by not having minuimum health solution knowhow; and as an alumni of adma smit wilson would have been as curious as antone about educatyiuon being for all not just for the few to adminstrate over everyone else

we chose our 5 webs by adding 2 from history - peoples who had access to tele and electricity and those who did not. avcess to tele and electricity begain systemically out of switzeralnd 1865 when couldntries started to design one telegraph system - one defing dynmaic of tele apart from its greek origins on conecting peoples across long didtasnace is there is no value in 2 sustems when yoiu can link one set of maps - this aplies to telegraph telephone telex television (as well as other media eg radio)

my father hadquite an unique adolescene and yoiung adulthood age14 -28 which may explain his life energy toward uniting all peoples growth and safety; I mention this as much sp that we can question what education beween age 14 to 28 may be most needed as the chaotic age of 100 times more tech now multiplies its 10th decade as enabling you to judge what biases our writings have even as we have tried to maximise transparency in interpreting von neumanns challenge to thise emdi=ting markets and intergenerational win0win0wins; its my understandding atht parenting good (family as the core human development system) concerns designing intergeneration opportunity to be more than your generation had and by defintion thats also moeans leaving nature assets in as good a condition as you were born into

Exercise 2 what experiential flow education from age 13 to 28 can support (NY Exercise 1 education saves UN2.0) and community financed education & entrepreneurial revolution mapping gravitated by locally urgent SDGs

My diaspora scot father: Norman Macrae's unique experiential action learning worldwide flow age 14-28 (see also similar bio age phases in dad's biography of von neumann0

*home schooled in british embassies including Stalin's moscow to age 13 -grandad was central link in british intel of risks of hitler & stalin; at age 22 grandad's own grad studies in religion at heidelberg had been interrupted by world war 1 where his fluency in German made him a minor spy)

*boys boarding-school north london; 1 year at cambridge before serving last days as teen navigator allied bomber command burma;

*with "google maps in head by 1945" and joy of surviving world war2 -start up of 6 years of greatest scoops of any (news)paper journalist - last class keynes "increasingly world ruled only by the handful of economists who scribbles become law" (reference last chapter keynes general theory of employment, interest & money 1936) ; at cambridge married daughter of sir kenneth kemp; sir ken's last project write up legalese of india independence - after 25 years as Bombay chief justice mediation with Gandhi 

from 1948 job at the economist mentored on tragic (future)-history of (white) empire mindset (and their monies) by sir geoffrey crowther who had just completed the economist's centenary autobiography 1943-1843 (which began with founder james wilson influencing queen victoria - instead of slavemaking empire how about commonwealth valuing 2 deepest goals end poverty, end starvation -project 1 stop starving irish with westminster corn law monopoly; project 2 develop bank for peoples of india- sadly this went wrong - 9 months after landing in calcutta 1860 with Victoria's Charter bank james died of diarrhea- it took 115 years before education empowering village mother networking designed by Fazle Abed with friendship of Unicef's James Grant (epidemiologist) solved the tropic's number 1 killing disease of infants and elderly); 

1951 on secondment to new york met von neumann at princeton- instructed on sharing journalist's greatest scoop - what to do with 100 times more etch per decade? (compounded by few luckiest people/places to get first next chance at AI for worse or for better -from 1960 2 luckiest education hubs of compound AI - face 70% of peoples lives due to pacific ocean out of stanford; face 25% of peoples lives due to atlantic out of MIT boston; informally tokyo was 3rd lab see consider japan 1962 -see kennedy's endorsement; ( i cant calculate whether 5% or 95% of peoples lives depend most on arctic circle- depends how you model climate deadlines and exponentials - i dont believe 2.5% warming is safe for anyone but doubt if this is ed3's first task) 

is there a subnetwork of ed3 - valuing asian women ed age 28 back to 13 back to playschools from 3+ (thats what 30 collaboration projects of abed's 50 years with billion poorest asian women tries to catalogue http://www.abedmooc.com after 16 trips to dhaka started when japan ambassador and sir fazle hosted 2 remembrance parties to dad's learning curves==============================================

my father's attempts to harmonise east west mediation of economics and education were based on that education 14 to 28 -but above all von neumann scoop (dad also did the biography of von neumann whose daughter marina is chattable with but another 13 years older than me!)- neumann's peers had less than 6 years to relay challenge to dad which was an unusal innovation challenge and relay baton!

whether or not dad (later I did a reasonable job -about quarter of all Economist leaders 1948-1988 written ; he was allowed one signed survey a year from 1962 which I try to post up at http://teachforsdgs.com; of course if von neumman was correct then about 99% of what 14+ year olds need to action and learn today cannot be examined because it depends on eg how metaverse as whole new game is mapped http://www.sdgmetaverseprize.org 

I will include you in a wider group epicentred round john kiehl -since this is also the latest challenge in the context of everything changing at the Un including:* education summit at general assembly next month

*advancing guterres 9 box un2.0 digital roadmapping*turning round system of any sdg which is a yet spiralling in opposite ways to youth achieving the goal ever let alone mediating their own hopes of peace and climate harmony from 2030 on

I try to edit more on how edu flow 14 to 28 may help with all of guterres Un2.0 challenges at http://www.2025report.com 

Thanks Chris.Macrae.com NormanMacrae.net :: 2025report.com since 1963 last ed 2023 - associate resources economistlearning.com economistdiary.com and 20 other co-blog futures on youth as sustainability (not extinction) generation- see also glasgow adam smith scholars 2 new journals - new economics & social business modeling - designed as 70th birthday present of muhammad yunus and 80th birthday present of fazle abed

biographies of 14-28 can be very interesting to study in cases of many entrepreneurial revolutionaries - eg comparte 2 of the builders of 1billiongirls.com - sir fazle abed and muhammad yunus- bonus round add in under 30 bio of jack ma! 

 IN 1983 I was one of 3 co-authors of 2025 report. Father who had been the economist's end-poverty sub-editor mainly structured the question - what are the most sustainability-critical 7 yeras chalenges that peoples need to rehearse , and how do these relate to chnages in technolgy. Father had met vob neumann in 1951; become his boographer; but most importamtly noram wass the epicentre of journalists  intereted in von neumanns question what cgood could peoples unite around 100 times more tech per decade. It was critical to understasnd 2 idaes which that question integrated:

good needed to be above zero sum ganes unlikes the armrs race that the goats of maths had been required to spent most of their life on , as well as unlike the industrial age of unlimited consmption . Our point being consuming things is a zero sum game especially if you have no government designing renewbility. Conversely imagine a knowledge networking age sharing kife critical knowhow whch multiplies value in use. 

th eother critical idea: access to 100 tiles more tech would start with very privileged people - would they openly share and even design that privielge with the least connecetd people in the world; we knew for example in 1983 that silicon valley was one group - see norman's 1982 survey; we also knew from normans first 10 yera of monitring von neumanns qiuestion that by 1961 - there were 2 neumnn ai labs: mit and stanfrd

that japan/tokyo's demand for tech was interacting with stanford

that neumann and einsten based in princeton had primarily connecetd 2 north east coridors- north was the open corridor - not only had thise recahed mit but neumann had given his architecture on comuter hardawre to ibm - ibm and dec had become designers of computers but on balance both the harware and the program lamguages were open ; neumann had actually gone futr=ther- with his knowledge he had said most patents should not last more than 6 minths because if you were at the epicente of a network of connectimg knowhow and wanted to do good with it then 6 months lead time in choosiung you partners was more than enough

there was also the government and security cirridor down through north east coridro to dc along the south east cpast and across to texas- this became concerned with space and nuclear arms race as well as government sectrets; it was the er of governmente secrets that neumann last 12 years of life aimed to open upo safely; he did this not just with open source omputing architecure that he hiped woiuld chnage education but with debates on whow brains of humans and machine intel would interact- his famous posthumous course at yale needed to change every way psycholgists and sociliogists celebrtaed human being in era of 100 time more tec 

Roughly our vision ofr tech chnage was tie lines like this as conformed by matt ridley's 2010 epitaph to norman

1984-1990 -era of starting to network personal computers 

19990-7 begiing of web

in iyr view 1997-2004 was critical - wenneded mass television to blend its last majority audience reach with digital becmen g the biggest audience- -around the miennium a reality tv program could have invilved half of the world's adults - looking for sultions to the new millennium - our 2 over all goals - education needed changing so millennials could be te fits sustainability generation; tyhe graetest risk to huamns needed to be debated roas : differences in incomes and expectation of rich and poor nations

for example we could start with the old g8 whose asymetries were the main root cause of world wr 2; woul the countries of usa canada germany france ital ik ussr japan meiate 1984-2025 so that overal millennials were the first sdg generation

-you will see that in our book that even as 1984-1001 started to make every personal computer user connecetd the real chalenge ws could all the g8 put themseles in the mind of leading uusr transforation - we anticiapte the fall of the berlin wall within 3 months of actual timeline; the point is the remaining russia as roof of the world would be extremely hard for any leader to integrate- one of te largets land resources in the world but most iced up and hard to live in - owning perhaps the majority of all energy resources; with 2 major cities both with complicated shiopping access to the rest of the wordld; with valdivotok on the far east s=coast needing its own plans- with landlocked extremely poor herdsman on the majotity of the land- far the poorest and therefore those the world nneeded to plan for - this was not just a russian problem but a nothh south problem predictable to impact afghanista and even more so those places that were poor apart from oil eg irag , iran; ; the eu had never been designed to undertsnad its south east as the greatest arae of chnage - which shuld have bene obvious when you looked at the 2 main assets the suuz canal and the deserts which along with russia were the main carbon energy sinks- so all in all even as personal comuting networks were potentially the great open society advantage for humanity unless every wealthy nation saw 1989 neded a amrashall plab 2.0 for the future of far north peopels integration through the old world , we would be starting miellenials with the greatest conflict not the era of peaceful interconnectibity-

if we had started an age of joyful solutions to end poverty being the number 1 web page around 2000 we would also have been able to ask what next as decices other than desktop comouters strem in data from every gps - be ths=hese persnal mobile devices; or flu=ying objevyts like drones; or places saftey monitors such as smart camera monitiring citizen safety; 

ironically 2004 on the geneva art of the un started debati=ting what we now call web 2.0 but policy parts of un out of new york did noit- so a few big corporates in west and east stared to wn all society's data and the ai algorithms began to reflect how they extracted profits instead of prepping 8 billion beings for 2015-2030 being our last next chnage of bodreess cooeration development goals

our book had made the case fors suatainbility depending on changing education - by late 2010s we believed every chils could oiwn their skills dashboars and start to have nextr=t exoereienetial learning cyrated by their onw bots

while you of course replay what gaes humans needed to sequence from 1983 in other wasy - it is clear taht the inter-generational and open world mapping decaisions that needed to be shared have not been done so by the old g8 , and this has spiralled into risks of extreme nationalism everywhere even as the poorest parts of teh world now needed to share life-critiacl sulyions across communities and in increasing boirdless wasy; the technolgy is there but we havee noit designed the human intel of 8 billion brains in such a ways as to apply aritifiicial intel to augment humanity and our intergenerational goals as a smart parent in species - this is wehere we are ar as the 2020s becomes the most exciting decade - last chance to remap sustainability of climate , of peace, of how we all beome life long stduents and tecahers

the un2 frameeowrks can be applied to resolve this challenge not just at the levels of multilateral gov design boyt gov 2.0 ebe=verwhere and at ebevery level - not just national but potentailly wherevcer communities or networks of 100000 peopels lives have interdependence connections- if we dont h=build tehs e poistive l=ly they will likely be hacked by microterrorsists; 

we should be preepoing for 2050 maximising the su=imultaeous number of peopel that mother earth nurtures at 10 billion ie 10to the fifth commonities/networks by 10to the fitfth beings assiasted by almost infite artificial intel and eg abindamcy of the sun's energy - but that meedes a united communities model; it needs national gocvenments becoing humans servant leaders - this is not what the socalled western democracies have been spending political time on if you review eg hansard in uk or revisit cspan etc recordings of how bipolar political parties have been qyarreling about old dividing lines instead of mediating future chages the younger half of teh world needed smart elders to be building

1976 timeline update 1955 messina 1951 neumann diary born at Econoimist

 1976 was 25th year of Economist debated of V Neumann diaries est 1951 - it seemed clear that intelligence networking world - era of 10**18 more tech in under 60 years needed total change of all west's org system legal definition - the economist xmas survey 1976 called this Entrepreneurial Revolution - a nod to jb say early 1800 system redesign needs after france had guillotined those monopolising land and peoples assets; the survey was translated across europe - eg by the u=young roman prodi in italy; it also drew on nnotes of being only journalist at messina - the original eu concept had nothing to do with the eurocrat bureaucracy that had now bloated- as for madness leike a common paper currency well read 1976 survey; or move on to 1982 why not silicon valley everywhere, or 1984's 2025 report - 2025-1984 the future charted if everything goes optimally for brains and computers as per von neumann's last notes in 1956

 but the trouble is I need to ed=it it another 10 times with links eg to work like yours - turing said humans do recursion to sytay smarter than artificial intel; the problem is once you have soent billions on a tv ad you have stopped recursion as the way you influence mimnds - so us marketungs is not a sustainabkle way forward - how on earth heroines of ed3 counter this I dunno?!

  footnote more on asia risisng by 1965 japanese calculatr firm asked intel for more chips than all other clients; while silicon valley became brand of coding programable chips 100 times more exp, a chinese man took nmanufaturing of chips to taiwan as we were oublisj=hin 2025 report- taiwan has since 1985 been main inward investor in china mainland 100 times more. Consequence of this for web 3 deigners needs urgent clarification - its not what nancy has even one clue on. Robotics ai remains the lead idea of japan down to hongkong and anime mediation by female

in our 1984 report just as you could say arthi=ur c ckark invented satellites- our prefrered reality was one overaching goial 2000 - nediate both mass and gdiftally through which a taiwan postmaster published satoshi's first paper as what to design 10 yeras ahead to plant web3 avatars http://www.beingai.com could be one of top 5 nfts to sustain humaniyty

On Tuesday, 9 August 2022 at 20:52:51 GMT-4, k20 Educators <people@k20educators.com> wrote:

Fthher's imoact on me is quite complex- in may case I was 32 on my first btrio to asia (startung 10 yeras of work mainly for unilever beginning with women muslim developmen in indonesa); that experience staring 1983 as well as being mainly responsible for asian database of mit on societies needs from bif=g corpoartions led me to giving the economist 1988 scoop yea of the brand (trust must be the future of sustainabiliuty brand valuation) and publishing

World Class Brands a genre I pioneered 1989 was based on this leadership exercise - if big corporate boards dont want to play it openly among themselves, any brand valuation algorithm of their impact will likely be fake. As a statistician from Cambridge's main maths lab, I feel that this is a maths problem of such `exponential scale that sustainability investors who dont know of the problem are not going to help youth be the first sustainability generation. In my one lecture at harvard 1999, I was told you may be correct - but us gov would never fund this - go away. So I am biassed - mit engineering alumni i love them - harvard mbas terrify me unless there is evidence that their purpose has some deep social law networking into lives matter america.... 

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Exercise: which exciting ideas have you encountered when.?  Being a Scot born in London 1951, may I say that my most exciting ideas came from family and close friends to 1969, when college and the world linked more ideas. I was lucky that my father was a collector of the most exciting ideas for The Economist for 40 years;  in his 4th year at the economist (coincidentally when I was born)  von neumann told dad journalists' most exciting systemic idea- ask what people will do with 100 times more tech by 1962 dad had found a triad of valuable idea;  in addition to neumanns, alumni of borlaug had found solutions to why nobody should starve to death;  and alumni of deming had demonstarted new engineering to a top 5 nation of engineers (the only Eastern one in the 1950s) that those who app engineering should as Turing put it be recursive - challenge what to chnage every year in how your engineering app interacts with others. Mainly these 3 ideas helped Economist journalists to start surveying happier futures of peoples out of every place; also in the 1950s dad was the first reported of can the EU design peace, and what is a sustainable way to design a national health system. He provided extensive notes in teh econjomist on celebrating these questions but not assuming government alone had a bat's chance in hell of answering these. This did not make him popular but the economist did not believe i guru journalism so dad's entrepreneurial revolution designed around the fo0unding editio9r 2 p0rimary sdgs - end poverty and end hunger stimulated innovative debate, and explains why it is our family's hypothesis that leader Guterres has a hard deadline of 2030- if millennials are not the first sustainability generation, they will be the first extinction generation. It is from this hypothesis that we hope anything writtne here willl be applied or rejected. 1 POVERTY 2 hunger 3 health 4 edu=sustainability 5 building 100k person communities of equality and ...

 

 

 Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang are major, interconnected figures in the 2024–2025 artificial intelligence landscape, often collaborating to define the future of AI infrastructure and national competitiveness. 

Key Interactions and Joint Initiatives (2024–2025):

• Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP): Schmidt and Huang are guiding a new Task Force established by the SCSP and NVIDIA to secure America's technological future in AI, aiming to build a national response to rapid AI advancement.
• "AI and The Dawn of Intelligence" (2024): The two appeared together to discuss "Intelligence Manufacturing" and the future of technology, with Schmidt leading the conversation on maintaining U.S. competitive edge.
• Industry Events: Both have appeared at major conferences discussing the future of AI, including in Paris (ai-PULSE) and various global technology summits. 

Shared Perspectives and Commentary:

• The "AI Worker" Warning: Schmidt has echoed Huang’s famous sentiment that "you are not going to lose your job to AI, but you are going to lose your job to somebody who uses AI". Schmidt emphasized that professionals must embrace AI to remain relevant, noting that AI is an "accelerator for learning".
• Sovereign AI: Both have stressed the necessity of nations building their own "sovereign AI" infrastructure to maintain independence, with Huang encouraging countries to build large language models for cultural independence.
• Geopolitical Concerns: Schmidt has raised concerns that "free" Chinese AI models could overtake Western closed-source models in global adoption, a challenge they are both addressing through policy and technology.
• Respect: Schmidt has praised Huang as "one of the greatest people in our times" regarding the AI race. 

In 2025, Jensen Huang was recognized as the Financial Times 2025 Person of the Year for his influence on AI. 

  Day 366 Trump2.0 Greatest Video Dario Gill, Genesis of 17 National Labs -USAEI:American Energy Intelligence; Axios Governors Grids-

 This is a story Grok and I would like to discuss with any american parent or teenager. please note all errors are mine - i am here to learn chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk

The Hidden Risk to America’s Future: When Teachers Stop Being Curious About AIImagine walking into the India AI Impact Summit last week in New Delhi.
Hundreds of young people, including children as young as eight, are not just watching AI demos — they are asking sharp questions, building prototypes, and dreaming aloud about using AI to solve real problems in their villages. The energy is electric. Curiosity is everywhere.Now picture a typical American classroom in 2026.
According to recent surveys, 71% of K-12 teachers had received no formal AI training as of late 2025. Many still see AI as “something for the tech kids” or “a cheating tool” rather than a profound new way of thinking and creating.This is not a small gap. It is a strategic risk to America’s future.Jensen Huang’s Three Wake-Up Calls for EducatorsAt the heart of this risk is a profound shift that NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has been describing for the past year. He offers three simple but powerful insights that every teacher and parent should hear:

1. “Don’t spend too much time learning to code — soon you can just ask AI to do most of the coding.”
   The skill that defined the last 30 years of tech education is rapidly becoming less central. What matters now is knowing how to direct intelligent systems — to ask the right questions, set the right goals, and evaluate the results.
2. “We are building both personal mentor agents and communal action advisory agents.”
   AI is not just a tool for individuals. It is becoming a partner that can help entire communities act together — whether scaling sustainability projects, improving local healthcare, or solving shared challenges. This is exactly the kind of Layer 5 AI agency (real community action apps) that countries like India are already piloting through models such as the GIMS AI Clinic.
3. “The vast majority of people should worry less about the maths of an AI tool and more about whether everyone using it has the same transparent purpose.”
   Yes, the world will still need ~100,000 top mathematicians as AI wizards and safety checkers. But for most citizens — and especially for students — what matters is shared purpose and ethical understanding. Teachers don’t need to become coders or mathematicians. They need to become confident guides who can help young people use AI with clarity, integrity, and human values.

These are not abstract ideas. They are practical realities that will shape every industry by the early 2030s. Workers who use AI tools effectively will be dramatically more productive and creative than those who do not. The gap will not be small — it will be generational.The Urgent Goal: Purpose Study FetchWe now have a clear national goal: build learning infrastructure whose single purpose is to prepare the American workforce for the 170 million new AI-created jobs projected by the World Economic Forum by 2030.Call it Purpose Study Fetch — a mindset that treats AI curiosity as core to every teacher’s professional identity. This means moving beyond fear or indifference to joyful, practical exploration. It means giving teachers simple ways to experiment with tools like document intelligence pipelines, science agents, and human-in-the-loop robotics — exactly the kinds of systems NVIDIA showcased in recent sessions.Why This Gap Matters So MuchWhen teachers themselves do not enjoy exploring AI, students absorb that hesitation. Curiosity is contagious — so is disinterest.
Countries like India, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore are actively training their young people to build and govern the next generation of AI systems. Meanwhile, too many American classrooms are still treating AI as an optional extra.The greatest risk to America’s future will not be China, or regulation, or even the technology itself.
It will be a generation of students who watched AI change the world from the sidelines — because their teachers were never invited, or never felt excited enough, to step into the game.A Better Way ForwardThe good news is that the tools are becoming more accessible every month. Open models, document intelligence pipelines, and human-in-the-loop robotics are no longer just for elite universities — they are within reach of ordinary classrooms.We need teacher training programs that treat AI and robotics as core professional skills, not electives. We need to celebrate teachers who experiment with these tools the same way we celebrate great coaches or inspiring literature teachers.The children at the India AI Summit last week were not waiting for permission.
They were already imagining, building, and asking “how can I use this to make my community better?”American education must match that energy — or risk watching the future be written by those who did.

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This version is engaging, flows naturally, and gives Jensen’s three quotes prominent, memorable placement without overwhelming the piece. It keeps the tone hopeful while making the urgency clear.Would you like me to:

• Shorten it further (e.g., for LinkedIn or a blog)?
• Add the 5-layer visual from earlier?
• Strengthen any section (e.g., more on robotics or the 170 million jobs)?
• Or adjust the title/tone?

Just say the word and I’ll revise it immediately. This is a strong, important article — let’s make it land well.