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Comment on: Topic 'KIng Charles - & Jensen H- AI World Series 2023+'
ensen co-founded the company in 1993 with a goal to create chips that accelerated graphics. Over the past thirty years, NVIDIA has gone far behind gaming and become a $674B behemoth. Jensen talks about the meaning of this broader platform shift for developers, making very long term bets in areas such as climate and biopharma, their next-gen Hopper chip, why and how NVIDIA chooses problems that are unsolvable today, and the source of his iconic leather jackets. 00:00 - Introduction 01:26 - The early days when Jensen Co-founded NVIDIA 04:58 - Why NVIDIA started to expand its aperture to artificial intelligence use cases 10:42 - The moment in 2012 Jensen realized AI was going to be huge 13:52 - How we’re in a broader platform shift in computer science 17:48 - His vision for NVIDIA’s future lines of business 18:09 - How NVIDIA has two motions: Shipping reliable chips and solving new use cases 25:41 - Why no one should assume they’re right for the job of CEO and why not every company needs to be architected as the US military 31:39 - What’s next for NVIDIA’s Hopper 32:57 - Durability of Transformers 35:08 - What Jensen is excited about in the future of AI & his advice for founders Chapters View all Introduction 0:00 The early days when Jensen Co-founded NVIDIA 1:26 Why NVIDIA started to expand its aperture to artificial intelligence use cases 4:58 The moment in 2012 Jensen realized AI was going to be huge 10:42 How we’re in a broader platform shift in computer science 13:52 His vision for NVIDIA’s future lines of business 17:48 How NVIDIA has two motions: Shipping reliable chips and solving new use cases 18:09 Why no one should assume they’re right for the job of CEO and why not every company needs to be architected as the US military 25:41 Explore the podcast …
Added by chris macrae at 5:49pm on May 2, 2024
Comment on: Topic 'Jensen100'
e the AI factories  that power the world’s frontier AI models.   1:12:59 1 hour, 12 minutes, 59 seconds Designing these chips, and the systems they run  in, is one of the hardest engineering challenges.   1:13:05 1 hour, 13 minutes, 5 seconds Trillions of transistors. Three-dimensional  circuits at microscopic scale. Every gate,   1:13:11 1 hour, 13 minutes, 11 seconds every wire, synchronized to picoseconds, must work  in perfect harmony, with no margin for error.   1:13:18 1 hour, 13 minutes, 18 seconds Physical prototypes are too slow and too costly.  So engineers work in the digital realm. Each chip   1:13:24 1 hour, 13 minutes, 24 seconds begins as a set of architectural specifications,  then translated into RTL — the language of chip   1:13:30 1 hour, 13 minutes, 30 seconds design. RTL must be verified in simulation. A  single bug can delay a chip by months. At NVIDIA,   1:13:38 1 hour, 13 minutes, 38 seconds thousands of engineers, billions of compute  hours per year, millions of tests written, run,   1:13:44 1 hour, 13 minutes, 44 seconds and debugged — a cycle that takes teams weeks. To compress this cycle, Cadence and NVIDIA built   1:13:50 1 hour, 13 minutes, 50 seconds a design verification agent. Codex orchestrates  the process. Cadence Chip Stack launches the   1:13:57 1 hour, 13 minutes, 57 seconds RTL verification loop, powered by Nemotron  and secured by NVIDIA OpenShell. Calling on   1:14:03 1 hour, 14 minutes, 3 seconds expert subagents in RTL generation, test bench  creation, regression testing, and debug. The   1:14:11 1 hour, 14 minutes, 11 seconds system drives itself. The Chip Stack agents run  hundreds of simulations with Cadence Xcelium,   1:14:17 1 hour, 14 minutes, 17 seconds formal verification with JasperGold. Design flaws  revealed. Bugs in the code, fixed. What once took   1:14:24 1 hour, 14 minutes, 24 seconds weeks now takes hours. Verification cycles over  40 times faster. Together, NVIDIA and Cadence are   1:14:32 1 hour, 14 minutes, 32 seconds reinventing chip design with AI agents. ________________   [JENSEN] From weeks to hours.   1:14:41 1 hour, 14 minutes, 41 seconds From weeks to hours. From weeks to hours. NVIDIA has thousands of chip designers.   1:14:47 1 hour, 14 minutes, 47 seconds We are going to hire hundreds of thousands  of Cadence super agents to work with us,   1:14:54 1 hour, 14 minutes, 54 seconds so that we can accelerate our company,  so that we can be even more ambitious,   1:14:59 1 hour, 14 minutes, 59 seconds create even more amazing things, run even faster. You saw earlier that the toolkit — with models,   1:15:08 1 hour, 15 minutes, 8 seconds harness, tools and skills, and runtimes — is  the reason why we’re working with Cadence so   1:15:18 1 hour, 15 minutes, 18 seconds hard to accelerate all of their tools on CUDA,  because the agents are impatient. The agents   1:15:25 1 hour, 15 minutes, 25 seconds want the answer immediately. And so, models,  harnesses, CUDA-accelerated libraries and tools,   1:15:36 1 hour, 15 minutes, 36 seconds and then the runtime. What you saw just  now is all of that coming together.   1:15:41 1 hour, 15 minutes, 41 seconds Now, one of the things that it starts with  is a great model that Cadence could modify   1:15:48 1 hour, 15 minutes, 48 seconds and tune to be expert at the Cadence  workflow, at the Cadence expertise,   1:15:53 1 hour, 15 minutes, 53 seconds so that they could create super agents that are  proprietary to Cadence, with their proprietary   1:16:00 1 hour, 16 minutes knowledge. They have to start with an excellent  model. We call it Nemotron. It is dedicated to   1:16:07 1 hour, 16 minutes, 7 seconds building open models for the world, so that all  of you, all of us, could create our own agents.   1:16:14 1 hour, 16 minutes, 14 seconds Today, we’re announcing Nemotron 3 Ultra. Our  next open model, and it is smart. The Nemotron   1:16:32 1 hour, 16 minutes, 32 seconds models not only give you the model — we give  you all the data that we use to train the model,   1:16:40 1 hour, 16 minutes, 40 seconds and because we have a coalition of incredible  partners, we work together and contribute data   1:16:49 1 hour, 16 minutes, 49 seconds to each other. Nemotron is trained on one of the  largest suites of long-running reasoning models,   1:16:56 1 hour, 16 minutes, 56 seconds long-running tool task-solving, tool-using  datasets in the world, because of all of our great   1:17:04 1 hour, 17 minutes, 4 seconds partnerships. All of this — from the model, the  training scripts, and the data — made completely   1:17:12 1 hour, 17 minutes, 12 seconds available to you. This is open models at its  best. The best open model system in the world.   1:17:20 1 hour, 17 minutes, 20 seconds Simple goal: so that you can take all of it,  add to it, make it even better, make it yours.   1:17:27 1 hour, 17 minutes, 27 seconds Nemotron 3 Ultra is five times faster. This is the  world’s first model based on a hybrid architecture   1:17:37 1 hour, 17 minutes, 37 seconds of SSM — State Space Models — with a Mixture of  Experts. The architecture is incredibly fast.   1:17:46 1 hour, 17 minutes, 46 seconds We made it fast so that you could think fast. When  you think fast, you can think longer at the same   1:17:50 1 hour, 17 minutes, 50 seconds cost. So five times faster. It is also 30% cheaper  — 30% lower cost to run in total FLOPs and total   1:18:02 1 hour, 18 minutes, 2 seconds inference time — than even the most cost-effective  models in the world. We’re comparing against the   1:18:07 1 hour, 18 minutes, 7 seconds world’s best open models. Frontier smart. Five  times faster, 30% cheaper. Completely open. We’re   1:18:19 1 hour, 18 minutes, 19 seconds completely dedicated to this. This is now Nemotron  3. We’re currently working on Nemotron 4.   1:18:26 1 hour, 18 minutes, 26 seconds So this entire toolkit — from models, harnesses,  tools and skills, and runtimes — is the reason   1:18:35 1 hour, 18 minutes, 35 seconds why every enterprise company in the world has  the ability now to create their own agents,   1:18:43 1 hour, 18 minutes, 43 seconds just like Cadence did with their super agents.  And we’re working with so many companies — Cadence   1:18:48 1 hour, 18 minutes, 48 seconds and CrowdStrike, ServiceNow and Palantir, SAP.  People always said, “Jensen, the agents are going   1:18:56 1 hour, 18 minutes, 56 seconds to disrupt these markets.” I said: completely the  opposite. And you can now see it. Agents are going   1:19:03 1 hour, 19 minutes, 3 seconds to create the largest opportunity ever for my  partners and friends. And we have the NVIDIA Agent   1:19:12 1 hour, 19 minutes, 12 seconds Toolkit for Enterprise AI to help them. So there you go.   1:19:23 1 hour, 19 minutes, 23 seconds First, Vera Rubin in full production. Two,  Vera CPU — CPU built for a new generation,   1:19:31 1 hour, 19 minutes, 31 seconds for agents. And three, NVIDIA’s  Enterprise AI Toolkit, so that   1:19:38 1 hour, 19 minutes, 38 seconds every enterprise and every enterprise  software company can build agents.   1:19:53 1 hour, 19 minutes, 53 seconds My relationship with you started here.  And many of you, many of my friends and   1:20:01 1 hour, 20 minutes, 1 second partners here in Taiwan — your companies  started here. This is, in a lot of ways,   1:20:09 1 hour, 20 minutes, 9 seconds the beginning of the modern computer industry  — 40 years now. And NVIDIA is 33 years old.   1:20:16 1 hour, 20 minutes, 16 seconds The PC industry was already starting to get going  — Windows 1, Windows 2, Apple 1, Apple 2 — and by   1:20:26 1 hour, 20 minutes, 26 seconds the time we came along, Windows 3.1 was the PC.  And as you know, Windows 95 made the PC personal.   1:20:36 1 hour, 20 minutes, 36 seconds It took the PC from enterprises and companies  and made it into a consumer electronics device.   1:20:43 1 hour, 20 minutes, 43 seconds Everybody should have one, and everybody does. This is the beginning. This computing platform   1:20:49 1 hour, 20 minutes, 49 seconds did several things incredibly smart.  Windows was not just disaggregated,   1:20:55 1 hour, 20 minutes, 55 seconds as you know. Windows was properly abstracted.  It was architected just right — system BIOS,   1:21:03 1 hour, 21 minutes, 3 seconds open chipsets, the operating system with drivers  that could be connected and installed at runtime,   1:21:15 1 hour, 21 minutes, 15 seconds and an abstraction layer with a multimedia  API that opened up the PC to what we all   1:21:24 1 hour, 21 minutes, 24 seconds know today. Each one of these elements was  essential in making the PC so popular.   1:21:32 1 hour, 21 minutes, 32 seconds 40 years later, Microsoft and NVIDIA are going  to reinvent the PC. This is going to be the new   1:21:41 1 hour, 21 minutes, 41 seconds Now, tomorrow night I’m going to be with  Satya. We’re going to talk a lot more about   1:21:50 1 hour, 21 minutes, 50 seconds the work that we’re doing together. Microsoft and  NVIDIA — over the last three years, it took this   1:21:57 1 hour, 21 minutes, 57 seconds long to completely reinvent how the PC is going to  work so that we could be ready for this moment.   1:22:04 1 hour, 22 minutes, 4 seconds…
Added by chris macrae at 8:16am on June 1, 2026
Topic: DMVB
women governed local community) and giant leaps of mankind - often imaginative but not always locally actionable leaps of intelligence VALUING INTELLIGENCE (neumann;s death 1957 lost engineering inteligences open coders until 2003) Stanford and other academics make huge eror in saying AI is srudy of what a rather weak group of academics called their 1956 dartmouth summit. A sma time on his deathbed (havoing contracted cancer from winning nuclear bomb race for usa) Von Neumann was writing his last notes on computer and the brain.. These motes made it clear that nations best lesdetrs from bottom to top would launch 10 year intergenerational advancement projects- kennedy did with moon race; sdeveral black leaders did to try to advance equality; unfortunately usa had started to design media in riskeiest ways; it was surely tv briadcasting of the 1960s which root caused assassinations of both the kennedis and black america's deepest civil leaders. Media has alaways been what today is meanly called dual purpose technology. Indeed not just media but from switzrland 1965 what beceome the communications (2nd indysrral revolution) of electricity grids and telecommunions. To this day its geneva that is responsible for how the world agreed what is now 6G telecoms open standard without which no ai models linkin. Today all of this links to whether we can see that 95% of humans need to learn and work round layer 5 ai to get to its other layers- (this is map of jensen huang's life work as I understand it; welcome seeingh simpler maps if you gave one to celebrate all the intelligence contexts comoutation with billion times greater maths brainpower thna separate human minds can now achieve including what hassabis called tyhe Einstein test this week at annual google developer summit) could we get affordable property right? - Norman Macrae's last family of projects sought to support all asian women development starting with the innovative capitalism model og global social business partnerships -these were the model around which bangladesh nation building had been mapped since 1972 but DR Yunus latest version was published in a blue book in ;late 2007 which mt family smap[le to japanese embasies, across 70 londoners linked to The Economist, across major french corporate partners around danone who in 2005 the yera before his nobel prize had brainstormed how to unite 3 groups (corporates, goverments, scaling layer 5 action apps designed by mothers and daughetrs)- 1000 of these books were smapled in dc rehion tpo congress through results and across universities so trhat people could debate solutions to the subprime disaster... who 2007the only research i understood of dr yunus in USA connected this - still alive is rev al in baltimore rebuilding community round thurgood marshappl's childhood home; al told me to attend a jess jackson summiit in new york; i got to the last one before covid  over mearly 30 years what jackson achieved was a track of top ceos who intergenerationally cared about development of blaxk intelligence catching up through family investment with rest of american youth brains. Here is Gemin's hall of ceo fame  The Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project Economic Summit, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1996, has spent nearly 30 years bringing together titans of industry to address the "opportunity deficit" for minority-owned businesses. Los Angeles Sentinel +1 Your CVS Visit: The 2019 Summit The event you attended was likely the 22nd Annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, held in February 2019. This was the last major in-person summit before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the 2021 and 2022 events into virtual or hybrid formats. Rainbow PUSH Coalition +3 Corporate Headliner: Larry J. Merlo, then-President and CEO of CVS Health, was a central figure. Key Detail: Merlo participated in a "fireside chat" and CVS Health executive David L. Casey was honored for workforce strategies. Other Notable Speakers: John W. Rogers, Jr. (Ariel Investments), Susan L. Taylor (Essence), and Master P (Percy Miller). Harlem World Magazine +2 Heavy Hitters: CEOs Supporting the Movement  Over the last two decades, the summit has featured a "who's who" of corporate leadership, often serving as a platform for major diversity initiatives.  Tech Titans: John W. Thompson (former Chairman of Microsoft) was honored and held a fireside chat with Rev. Jackson in 2016. Brian Krzanich (former CEO of Intel) announced a $300 million diversity investment fund during the 2015 summit. Financial & Investment Leaders: John W. Rogers, Jr. (CEO, Ariel Investments) is a perennial fixture and was a 2022 honoree. Robert F. Smith (CEO, Vista Equity Partners) was a featured speaker in 2014 and 2015. Richard Grasso (former Chairman/CEO of the New York Stock Exchange) helped launch the project on the NYSE floor in 1997. Other Major Corporate Figures: Bernard J. Tyson (late Chairman/CEO of Kaiser Permanente) was a 2016 honoree. C. Michael Armstrong (former CEO of AT&T) spoke at early summits alongside President Bill Clinton. Pat Harris (Global Chief Diversity Officer, McDonald's) highlighted minority hiring in 2014. The Chicago Crusader +7 Core Mission & Impact 💡 The "Jackie Robinson Moment": Rev. Jackson often described the summit as creating a "Jackie Robinson moment" for Black business owners. Los Angeles Sentinel Access to Capital: It focuses on ending the "trade deficit" between corporate America and minority vendors. Broker-Dealer Support: A major goal is increasing the use of minority-owned asset managers and broker-dealers. Political Synergy: Summits frequently feature leaders like Maxine Waters, Charles Schumer, and various New York City mayors. Los Angeles Sentinel +3 AI can make mistakes, so double-check responses …
Added by chris macrae at 7:16am on May 23, 2026
Comment on: Topic 'Jensen100'
to 250 million protein breakthroughs from hassabis deep mind. IN May 2026 Hassabis announced hope that Einstein Brain will be replicable by ai agnets within 3 years - leadin to a lot wider ai applications- here are 19 joy of ai contexts chats hope einstein brain will help them link humans to . For their own people Japan and Korea seem to want support of mental health and of course plague mitigations; japan may be leader in helping UN agenda in africa Taiwan and hong kong appear to make quick start in uniting partnerships around digital twinning big cities most affordable teching hospitals ======================================= some questions to update  emerging health ai atgtu 2022  NVIDIA Emerging Chapters Developer Meetup March 2022 , Emerging Areas Lead, NVIDIA  NVIDIA Emerging Chapters Developer Meetup March 2022 , Emerging Areas Lead, NVIDIA , Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student , University of Cincinnati , Co-Founder, Rhions Lab , Founder/Co-Founder, PyData Tunisia , Africa Data School , TFUG Casablanca MORE INCEPTION/nVIDIA CLUB ai STARTUPS Darlington Akogo   2nd degree connection2nd INCEPTION-TALKS Founder, CEO, minoHealth AI, karaAgro AI | AI4Radiology Chair, United Nations ITU & WHO Focus Group on AI For Health minoHealth AI Labs Ghana  Contact info alibaba fortune change world nominrr for ai canacer detection https://www.alizila.com/alibabas-ai-powered-cancer-detection-tool-recognized-fortune-2024-change-the-world-li https://info.chanzuckerberg.com/exploring-new-frontiers-in-ai-driven-biomedical-research ========================================== footnote 1 Health NVIDIA Clara is the foundational AI platform for healthcare and life sciences, standardizing medical imaging, genomics, smart hospital sensing, and drug discovery. [1, 2, 4, 5] The industry's geographic division of labor reflects how NVIDIA relies on its East Asian supply chain to build the hardware infrastructure: NVIDIA designs the AI workflows and microservices, while Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan integrate them into medical electronics, hospital digital twins, and robotic systems. [1, 2] Taiwan: The System Builders & Smart Hospital Digital Twins [1] Taiwan acts as the physical launchpad for Clara Guardian (the smart hospital sensor framework) and Clara Holoscan (the real-time edge AI platform for medical devices). At COMPUTEX Taipei, NVIDIA showcased major collaborations between its Clara framework and leading Taiwanese tech conglomerates to address severe medical labor shortages: [1, 2, 4] Foxconn: Partnering with Taichung Veterans General Hospital (TCVGH), Foxconn is using the NVIDIA Clara ecosystem and NVIDIA Omniverse to build high-fidelity digital twins of entire hospital corridors, patient wards, and nursing stations. They utilize these digital environments to train "Nurabot," an AI nursing collaborative robot that autonomously navigates physical halls to deliver critical medical supplies. [1] ASUS & Advantech: These global industrial PC giants are embedding Clara Holoscan libraries directly into custom medical computers and surgical monitors. These systems allow AI algorithms to instantly analyze real-time video feeds during endoscopic surgeries, pointing out polyps or tumors to surgeons as they operate. [1] South Korea: AI Digital Twins & On-Device Memory The Korean Clara partnership network focuses heavily on advanced 3D anatomy virtualization and integrating high-bandwidth memory into healthcare appliances. [1] MEDICAL IP: Officially integrated into NVIDIA’s core AI ecosystem, this company focuses on AI-driven medical digital twins. By pairing Clara imaging tools with NVIDIA Omniverse, MEDICAL IP transforms standard 2D CT and MRI scans into interactive, physics-accurate 3D anatomical models. This allows surgeons to walk through a patient's simulated organs before performing high-risk operations. [1, 2] Samsung Medison: Samsung’s medical device division uses NVIDIA hardware and Clara's ultrasound SDKs to run real-time fetal monitoring and diagnostic imaging workflows directly on their high-end ultrasound machines. [1] Japan: Precision Medical Instruments & Robotic Care Japan's engagement with Clara dates back to its initial launch at GTC Japan in Tokyo, focusing heavily on embedded computing modules for precise medical instruments. [1] Canon Medical Systems & Fujifilm: These diagnostic imaging leaders utilize MONAI (the open-source, domain-specific medical imaging framework that forms the core of NVIDIA Clara). They run Clara on internal computing blocks to drastically accelerate processing speeds for CT scans, MRIs, and X-rays, reducing raw computing time while denoising low-radiation scans. [1, 2, 3] Panasonic & Sony: Rather than developing isolated software apps, Japanese conglomerates embed Clara Guardian modules directly into high-fidelity image sensors. These systems track vital signs, detect patient falls, and measure heart rates simply by observing subtle facial pixel shifts via smart video analytics. [1, 3, 4] Southeast Asia: Multimodal Healthcare Platforms VinBrain (Vietnam): A major regional pioneer of Clara deployments, VinBrain has scaled its medical imaging AI models to over 100 hospitals across Vietnam. Using NVIDIA’s Clara infrastructure alongside TensorRT optimization, they process multi-spectral healthcare data to accelerate medical imaging analysis by more than 3x and automated video analytics by 30x. [1] The Big Picture Integration [ NVIDIA CLARA SOFTWARE SUITE ]  (BioNeMo, MONAI, Holoscan, Guardian)                 │                 ├───────────────────────────┼───────────────────────────┐                 ▼                           ▼                           ▼        [ TAIWANESE HARDWARE ]       [ KOREAN DIGITAL TWINS ]     [ JAPANESE INSTRUMENTS ] Foxconn Nurabot • MEDICAL IP Anatomy         • Canon Medical Imaging ASUS AI Endoscopy • Samsung Medison            • Fujifilm MONAI Fusions East Asia plays a crucial role in bringing NVIDIA’s Clara platform into hospitals. NVIDIA provides the software building blocks for clinical intelligence, and its East Asian supply chain turns that software into real physical machines—ranging from nursing bots in Taiwan to diagnostic scanners in Japan and surgical digital twins in South Korea. [1, 2, 3, 4] If you want to dive deeper into a specific area, let me know if you would like to look into how Foxconn trains its Nurabot inside the Omniverse hospital digital twin, or examine how MEDICAL IP converts 2D scans into 3D environments , Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. Student , University of Cincinnati , Co-Founder, Rhions Lab , Founder/Co-Founder, PyData Tunisia , Africa Data School , TFUG Casablanca MORE INCEPTION/nVIDIA CLUB ai STARTUPS Darlington Akogo   2nd degree connection2nd INCEPTION-TALKS Founder, CEO, minoHealth AI, karaAgro AI | AI4Radiology Chair, United Nations ITU & WHO Focus Group on AI For Health minoHealth AI Labs Ghana  Contact info alibaba fortune change world nominrr for ai canacer detection https://www.alizila.com/alibabas-ai-powered-cancer-detection-tool-r... https://info.chanzuckerberg.com/exploring-new-frontiers-in-ai-drive...…
Added by chris macrae at 6:27am on May 29, 2026
Topic: IR4 AI Cards 52 Intelligence Connectors 121 years
ngs, Yangs, Tsais - Steve Jobs  PC first time moores chip multiplier came to computer architecture  assisted 2001 Fazle Abed 65th birthday party on future of University. We play Intelligence-solution mapping Games with 52 cards plus 2 jokers selected from following (add you own deepest layer 5 ai connectors and open platforms ecosystems ) latest addition nvidia nicholas parker and congress's Ms Luma and  Fernandez AI CARD GAME main connectors since 2009 below ,     3Js Families  Huangs, Yangs, Tsais ..  King Charles Modi Macron ,  Ollila, Vanjoki, Stubb X 10 most distinctive western partner platforms with nvidia Priscilla Chan (women engineering networks in valley since Jobs 2001 intervention eg Lila Ibrahim, Fei-fei li,  Daphne Koller),  Doudna, Kariko family, Rebecca Solnit, ... BJ King, Amy Goodman, Amanpour, Colette Avital) Eric Schmidt, Elon Musk Ng, Kai-Fu Lee Page, Yann Lecun Mccelland   Hennessy, Chandrika Tandon Bloomberg Schwab George Siemens,  Radiology and pixel coding Jobs , Pixar leadership, Radiology leadership Hopkins Fishman Ackoff, Harrison Owen choose 3 venture capitals founded by 1983 eg doerr kliener, founder sequoia Intel triad ,Hewlett Packard Y Modi, Dinya Arya, Macron Japan Emperor Family, King Charles, Attenborough,  Korea leafers Samsung Hynix Taiwan leaders chang Tsmc, leader foxconn (Guo) Hassabis, Paul Nurse King Charles, Qatar First Familu, Al Olama. Musk Asian Twins L Ka Shing (lead HKT) KT Li. Lee Kuan Yew Borlaug, Deming, Toyota way                                             NET Cavendish Lawrence Keynes Crick  JFK-Emperor Hirohito-Akio Morita-UK Royals Are you ready to chat with machine with Einstein’s brain or genius of your choice? Exciting! BUT conflicts with goals of top profs & politicians, Discuss https://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/ir4      spark.docx My dad Norman Macrae enjoyed 2 good fortunes. 1 He survived being teenage navigator allied Bomber Command - Burma (World War 2). 2 Wanting to help mediate smarter/safer world he got The Economist to sponsor year of 1951 in New York region mainly to talk to Einstein Von Neumann. They suggested that within his lifetime machines would be engineered with equivalent of their brains or any great innovator. What sort of training would Economist journalists need to keep this intelligence opportunity open until computers and satellites ready such intelligence. Dad who died in 2010 didnt quite get to see Agentic AI blossom. Let's map how every human being can celebrate freedom of AI. Industrial Revolutions map transgenerational consequences of engineers, educational transformation is required for humans to advance Brains positive emotional intelligences over negative ignorances. IR1: In 1760 Glasgow Engineers brought world hundreds of more physical power than the horse and automation. This led to cities, factories, railways (before this only those living near water travelled). IR2 Emerged from 1860s, Central Europe  engineers (with Switzerland appointed as open standards mediator) brought people grids for telecommunications and electricity IR3 and IR4 are more complicated to dateline but emerge from Einstein's 1905 publication e=mcsquared and those who most advanced consequences of this to mid 1950s .What we have in fact compounded now in 2026  jensens law with billion times more maths brainpower (with 5 layers integrating as nature does bottom to top and openly) satellite communications connecting life critical data mapping between any communities on earth (or potentially space) Both of these have mainly accelerated between 1995-2025; bedore this we had moores law through which microedlectronic engineers advanced efficiency of silicon chips million fold between 1965-1995 . . These are minima journalists at The Economist were asked to mediate weekly from mid 1950s to celebrate legacy of Neuman-Einstein-Turing: Understand where NET got to both with Einstein science challenges and coding/computation which had been identified as essential to map natures data to innovate physics, chemistry, meteorology, materials science, biotech. Clarify what million fold tech changes would compound along side the emergence of computer brains with billion times more maths capability thajn separate human minds Set objective of at least 10 times more health-wealth (and accompanying livelihoods) everywhere; up to 100 times more in placed where neither electricity not telecoms had reached.  as agent eg einstein brain, It is crucial to understand that advances in Einstein challenges of 1905 e=mc squared are about the opposite of hallucination  21st c advances such as nuclear meteorology biotech robotics space quantum....:ultimate we are talking about deep maths data mapping also it may surprise you but most of moores law advance 1965-1995 was not about computing; west coast usa and far east supply chains microelectronics engineering minaturised and improved consumer products such as sony's swatch's casios, designed stationary industrial robots and construction machines for asia's megacities; in fact what grew ans is still the case today is the trade between west coast usa and japan korea taiwan (and islands of 4 hemisphere transportation isles of hong kong and singapore) became larger economy that the whole of the rest of usa- nb lets suppose 1% of humans live on usa west coast 4% in rest of usa, about 3% in japan and korea, and 0,5% in taiwan, hk, singapore-then in terms of numbers of brains we have another 60% od Asianswhereas across atlnatic europe's most developed countries have less than 10% of brains with 25% of brains much more as an under 30s elsewhere. SUMMARY: It may now be clear that human and artificialintelligences relationship between west coast usa and the far east coastal areas of Japan Korea Taiwan HK Singapore are critical to map before we get to continental change be that China, India, Rest of Asia, Europe, Rest of USA. Rest of Americas, Global South    ---------------------------------- Industrial Revolution 4 Breaking IR4 can share maps of how humans trading and productivity worlds changed as 3 million fold tech waves integrated market SWOT (exponential future Opportunities and Threats; historic Strengths, Weakness). Here is the first million fold wave which shaped world between 1965-95 ============================ IR4 dialogues can also connect with celebrating who has helped humans most advance AI for good - examples mediating engineers' maps with some visionary people including schwab founder of world economic forum who has hosted over a decade at least 4 megacity ir4 hubs - san francisco tokyo beijing delhi or mumbai.. jensen huang the nvidia engineer in midst of the biggest ever engineering revolution (IR4); from 2023 ai world summit dialogues  (King charles Uk- Korea - Macron France- Modi India )... have more fully recognised how enegineering decision making is most pivotal WAIForum so to speak  lets try and iteratively q&A following when do you think each most impacted generations of people. and what did people expoentially scale during this time period  -both as individual skill's and in terms of mass consequences (including sadly wars and joyfully peace of previous system rulers who disappeared peacefully and who started wars in attempt cause others to lose as they dicstated over everyone how did each IR layer or local and worldwide development of humans and mother earth scoping ir4 is controversial to mediate (proactively legislate ) freely for several reasons - revolution (no less in trust between every family) is caused when over a million times change happens across one or more generations- what changes how everyone relates to each other is caused by an engineering or mathematical leap but this freedom typically isnt accessible to everyone at same time and its gain in livelihood and skills isnt always understood; ulimately industrial revokution can do peoples harm unless their education systems keep ahead of whats what that said it seems clear industrial revolution 1 started in scotland with machines way beyond horsepower which caused people to develop cities, start working in factories, advance transport eg trains invented to deliver overland movement where previously most humans didnt travel many miles from birth unless they lived near water  industrial revolution 2 started in central europe from 1865 and switzerland was made responsible for how both telecoms (ITU now allied UN) and electricity grids standards advanced -nb these were connections revolutions potentailly win-win across peoples of different geographies-where people had access to these wired systems huge leaps in productivity (and quality of life) happened leaving rest of world behind industrial rev 3 nd 4 ae more complicated to date stamp we can argue ir3 involved silicon chips - between 1986-1995 originated around intel's supply chain west coast usa and japan korea taiwan advanced manufacturing with million times increase in efficiency of silicon chips  if we take that version of ir3 it was then multiplied to ouyr extraordinary AI era 2026 by IR4 celebrating 2 more million fold multipliers - supply systems (including 1000 intelligence platforms engineers linkin) around nvidia jensen huang developing machines with billion times more maths brains than separate human mind 1995-2025 (Hassabis calls this bringing us close to Einstein Test -agency of machine brain twinning einsteins before 2030)  . .and satellite applied through 1G to 6G+ so that every community's data is now beamed up and down between cloudsit should be clear that  what IR4 is about influences every market, every skill and so every item worth studying let alone teaching or certifying  - and so everyone (our brains our  data our time not just our money) needs to be involved in demanding or supplying changes to health and education as well as how human networks scale locally and globally in line with natures; we can end most diseases if we do; we can design communities for safety of every girl and boy as well as diverse in beauty and abundance as mother nature - see eg following of david attenborough on bbc or at cambridge darwin college which has just appointed a ,aster who can apply maths and energy to what nature studies networks discover locally and globallyand here we come full circle with mathematician's a problem back in 1905 eisntein published e=mc squared - this showed all natures resources physical energy, chemical, biological, meteorological etc were not ruled top down how humans have always designed biggest systems but bottom up and openlyso ir3 and 4 also connect with how von neumamn einstein turing 1905-1957 and their alumni did the innovation work so that human survived 2 world wars and were places to celebrate generations connecting silios chipss computation brains and worldwide data mapping distributed through 1G t 6G …
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Topic: BR5 West Euro & Old Blimey
nations Breaking News from EconomistEurope.com in 2019- cat among the pidgeons the 3rd internationalaiib summit will be hosted in luxembourg after the gamechnaging summits in Mumba 2018 and Jeju Korea 2017 - this is likely to occur in june a month after nations 100 most sustainable leaders have celebrated the 2nd running of  BRI.school in Beijing May ___________________________________________________  friends , do your networks have any connections with imperial BR5 Cathy Mulligan (United Kingdom), Co-Director of Imperial College Centre for Cryptocurrency this lady is on new task force of antonio guterres headed by jack ma and melinda gates-it is required to report on digital cooperation by march 2019 in time for this to be guterres main handout at xi jinpings meeting of 100 nations sustainability leaders aka Belt Road 2 assuming brexit hollows out london as financial centre and pounds sinks below Germany's Euro. old blimey urgently needs to be reinvented as engineering and green broadcasting centre to world; since britain was first country in europe to recognise japan of early 1960s mainly due to prince charles this is time for uk to get in middle of tpp, belt road -commonwealth can help unmap all the borders colonisation of british empire erected , make learning english 10 times cheaper through peer to peer internet groups , new investment banking -any sdg economic zone that the g7 would never endorse but clusters of huge population or huge land nations now need - especially the arctic circle energy defining sdg coastal belt according to all of prince charels gurus at http://www.ashden.org  and anthropological broadcasters led by michael palin at the asian infrastructure investment bank the head banker is the only brit left standing in beijing sir danny alexander- he has helped place the literary chrarmans daughter in ;position to take over the LSE  -she should be applauded for doing everything now there are no more British Economists left that James Wilson or Waleer Bagehot let alone George Soros would share a carriage with chris   http://normanmacrae.net  8th remembrance party week dhaka Sept 30 to Oct 6 2018 FILTER 15:03 Meeting future leaders of China | Keyu Jin | TEDxChaoyangWomen TEDx Talks 26K views2 years ago The first generation born under the one child policy will be the leaders of China in about 10 years' time. 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Added by chris macrae at 11:54am on August 15, 2018
Comment on: Topic 'Value chain transparency - intelligence data maps integrating local and global…'
In 2000, Dennis headed the establishment of the Community Development Initiatives (CDI) Foundation, designed to implement rural development programs in Papua New Guinea, and managed it for four years. Afterwards, he worked as Corporate Responsibility Manager for Chevron in Angola, managing Chevron’s Angola Partnership Initiative. He arrived in Nigeria in 2008 to assist Chevron in evaluating social investment initiatives and negotiating with community groups. In 2010, Dennis managed the establishment of the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND), a new organization funded by Chevron to support multi-stakeholder development partnerships in the Niger Delta region. Dr. Martin Fregene Chief Technical Advisor, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria Dr. Fregene serves as Chief Technical Advisor on Value Chains for the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. He is a plant geneticist and molecular breeder with over 17 years of experience, beginning his career at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture as a cassava breeder. While there, he received a post-doctoral fellowship on genetic mapping from the Rockefeller Foundation that took him to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia where he developed a molecular genetic map of cassava. William Grant Senior Principal Development Specialist, DAI Bill Grant is a Senior Principal Development Specialist in DAI’s Economic Growth sector.  Over the past 27 years, he has concentrated on designing and implementing market driven solutions leading to broad-based, pro-poor development.  He applies systemic market development methodologies (value chain and M4P) to identify the major systemic constraints that are handicapping equitable economic growth.  He is currently advising systemic development programs for USAID, DFID, the SDC, and private corporations to link major investment opportunities into sectors with strong pro-poor growth potential, and serves as the Senior Technical Advisor for Economic Growth with the Chevron funded PIND Foundation in Nigeria. Enrique Hennings Manager, Global Producer Finance, Fair Trade International Enrique Hennings is an applied economist with 15 years of international experience in economic analysis, agricultural finance and agribusiness. Currently, he is the Manager of the Global Producer Finance Unit at Fairtrade International overseeing Latin America, Africa and Asia. In the past, he worked for ACDI/VOCA as Deputy Director for a Millennium Challenge Account Project in Honduras (Farmer Access to Credit). He also worked at the Center for Farm and Rural Business Finance at the University of Illinois, the World Bank, the IDB, and the OAS. He holds a Master degree in Agribusiness and he is a PhD Candidate in Agricultural Economics (Rural Finance) at the University of Illinois. Sabina Idowu-Osehobo General Manager, LAPO NGO Sabina Idowu-Osehobo is the General Manager of LAPO NGO. She obtained a diploma in Mass communication and a degree in English Language and Literature from the then Edo State University, Ekpoma.(1991,1997). Before joining LAPO, in 1999 as a programme officer, she worked with various media organizations including the Nigerian Observer and Here and There, where she was the editor. Sabina has skills in the design and implementation of social and health programmes. A highly experienced trainer, she is a foundation team member of the LAPO Agricultural and Rural Development Initiative, set up to address the neglect of the Nigerian Agricultural Sector and rural poverty. Greg Jacobs Director, Private Sector Development, Chemonics Mr. Jacobs has 15 years of experience in international and local economic development on four continents in more than 25 countries. He joined Chemonics International as a Director in its Latin American region in 2010, where he oversees the $84 million Peru Alternative Development Program, as well as supporting a range of projects and proposals across the region. Mr. Jacobs also leads the company’s Private Sector Development Practice providing technical support and mentoring to 30 Chemonics projects across the globe. He was formerly the Regional Director of Latin America and the Caribbean for CARANA Corporation, and also worked for 5 years at Crimson Capital. Dano Jukanovich Partner, Karisimbi Business Partners, Rwanda Dano Jukanovich is Co-founder and Partner at Karisimbi Business Partners. He has an MBA in Finance from Wharton, an MA in International Economics from Johns Hopkins, and an BS in Economics from West Point. He has been an Army officer, Director of Corporate Planning and Analysis for a Fortune 100 company, and CEO of mid-sized Construction and Real Estate Development Company. In the four years that Dano has been establishing and jointly managing Karisimbi Partners, he has worked primarily in Rwanda, but also in Uganda and Kenya. Dano’s focus has been on agro-processors – their strategic, operational and financial considerations to include high-level partnerships with government, development and financial partners. Beth Keck Senior Director of Sustainability, Walmart Beth Keck is Senior Director of Sustainability for Walmart where she leads the company’s sustainable agriculture and international initiatives. Most recently, she led the strategy team that developed Walmart’s global sustainable agriculture platform and goals. In 2008, she received one of Walmart’s highest honors, the Sam M. Walton Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her contributions to sustainability. Previously, Beth lived in China where she was the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration senior representative. She has a master’s degree in International Economics and Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins and has done postgraduate studies at the University of Hong Kong Boaz Blackie Keizire Technical Advisor, Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP), African Union Commission Boaz Blackie Keizire is a Technical Advisor to a Pan African Agricultural Reform Program, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) at the African Union Commission in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Previously, Boaz was a head of Agriculture and Natural Resource Planning at the National Planning Authority in Uganda and a CAADP Lead Person in the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries-Uganda. Boaz has written and published papers for ACODE, UNEP, FAO and UNDP among others. He holds a Masters Degree in Agricultural Economics from Makerere University - Uganda and a Post Graduate Diploma in Policy and Planning from the United Nations University Reykjavik, Iceland. Dr. Yotsawin Kukeawkasem Project Manager, GIZ Dr. Yotsawin Kukeawkasem was born in Chiang Rai, Thailand and studied Agriculture (B.Sc.) and Agricultural Extension (M.Sc.). After several years of private sector experiences with international agribusiness (Cargill) and modern trade & supermarket (Carrefour), as well as working in a non-profit international development organization (Heifer International), he joined the Institute of Farm and Agribusiness Management at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany. There he gained a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2009. Since then, he has been working with GIZ (German International Cooperation) in the Project on Sustainable Palm Oil Production in Thailand as Deputy Project Director & Project Manager. Laté Lawson-Lartego Director Economic Development, CARE USA Laté Lawson-Lartego is the Director of the Economic Development Unit for CARE USA. He has over 15 years of professional experience, specializing in microfinance, food and agriculture value chain finance and development and social enterprise development. Mr. Lawson-Lartego and his team have developed the CARE Global Market Engagement Strategy with the goal of scaling up the development of enterprises and value chains in agriculture and livestock to empower over 10 million people, especially women, to lift themselves out of poverty by 2015. He holds a Masters Degree in Economics with a major in Business Administration, an MA in Rural Social Development, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Project Planning, Appraisal and Financing. Barry Lennon Senior Vice President, WOCCU Barry Lennon, Senior Vice President of Technical Services, has 40 years of experience in international financial system development. Prior to joining WOCCU, Lennon spent 26 years at the United States Agency for International Development designing, evaluating and developing financial service programs in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. He directed financial services programs of USAID’s Microenterprise Development Office for 12 years, managed a competitive grants program for micro and rural finance, and provided technical design and evaluation assistance to USAID Missions worldwide. As Financial Advisor in Guatemala and Honduras he designed and managed cooperative development programs to increase rural financial Brady Luceno Project Manager, Project Gaia Brady manages the daily operations and resources of projects in Ethiopia, Brazil, Haiti, and new projects. Brady helps to lead the development of Project Gaia's strategy in its humanitarian and commercialization projects while coordinating with key partners including USEPA, UNHCR, UN Foundation and many others. She has conducted regular field assessments and works closely with field teams. Brady has research experience in social change and women-led movements. Brady graduated from Gettysburg College with a B.A. in Globalization Studies and is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Portuguese John Magnay Senior Agricultural Advisor for Africa, Opportunity International Héctor Malarin Chief, Environment, Rural Development and Disaster Risk Management, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Mr. Héctor Malarín, a Peruvian citizen, has been with the IDB since 1994.  Previous assignments at the Bank include working as Principal Project Economist in the Environment and Natural Resources Management Division and as Project Economist in the Environment and Natural Resources Management Division. Mr. Malarín has lead projects around Latin America in the areas of agriculture, natural resources management, sustainable regional development, land administration and tourism. Mr. Malarín holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Davis. His previous work assignments include serving as an assistant professor in the Economics Department at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru Bill Marquard Director, Deloitte Consulting Bill Marquard is a Director at Deloitte Consulting in Chicago. Previously, he has served as the Chief Knowledge Officer of a $16 billion consumer products retailer/wholesaler, and designed and ran the first-ever strategic planning process for the world’s largest retailer. His book, Wal-Smart: What it Really Takes to Profit in a Wal-Mart World, was selected as a top five business strategy books that year. He also advised the Department of Homeland Security on public/private partnership opportunities. Additionally, he has helped SMEs and NGOs to collaboratively generate value by serving major social needs, including aligning a Guatemalan farm village into the Walmart supply chain in cooperation with a local NGO, USAID, Mercy Corp John Mennel Director, Deloitte Consulting John Mennel is a Director with Deloitte Consulting where he manages an economic development business delivering services to a range of clients including the development banks, donors, emerging markets governments and companies. His practice areas include competitiveness, private sector development, export and investment promotion strategies, and policy. He has worked in sectors including agriculture and agribusiness, textiles and apparel, power transmission and distribution, infrastructure, travel and tourism, and many others. Prior to joining Deloitte, John held senior positions in technology companies and worked as a consultant to the venture industry. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School Anderson Mlabwa Director of Credit, CRDB Bank PLC, Tanzania Mr. Anderson Mlabwa has 22 years experience in banking sector, 12 of which he has been the Country Head (Director) of Credit of CRDB Bank Plc. Mr. Mlabwa has also participated at different capacities in several local and international loan and guarantee financing schemes, such as the UNCDF guarantee loan scheme to Mwanza labor based contractors and USAID/ AfDB guarantee scheme for bank’s SME agricultural borrowers. He has been a Member of the Advisory Committee of the African Guarantee Fund and CRDB Bank’s team leader in introducing and managing the UNHCR funded loan scheme for Mozambican refugees. Mr. Mlabwa has a BSc. Agriculture, MBA Finance, and Associateship Banking Diploma Corey Modeste Greylock Capital Management LLC Mr. Modeste joined Greylock Capital Management in 2007 as a director and covers corporate and sovereign credit analysis in sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Modeste also focuses on deal sourcing, analysis and structuring for Greylock Capital’s private equity and debt transactions in the African region. Previously, Mr. Modeste was an associate director with Fitch Ratings in New York, where he worked in the Global Infrastructure Group, notably in the aviation, maritime and transportation sectors. Prior to Fitch, Mr. Modeste was head of global forecasting and logistical supply chain activities at Marin Mountain Bikes GmbH in Nuremberg and San Francisco. He received a BA in Economics from Williams College and speaks French, Spanish, and German Benugopal Mukhopadhyay General Manager, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), India Benugopal Mukhopadhyay received his Masters in Organization Development from Bowling Green StateUniversity, and did his Doctorate in Agricultural Extension at Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He joined as an officer at an Apex Development Financial Institution, NABARD, and served in various capacities in different parts of India. His passion is Organization Development and Change and he is trying to connect theory and practice for building up an effective and efficient rural financial sector cracking the codes of change. He was also a fellow in Asia Pacific Leadership Program at University of Hawaii. Recently, he completed a collaborative project on Financial Inclusion with University of Canberra Elibariki Masuke Ogwa Head of SME Banking, CRDB Bank PLC, Tanzania View Biography A banker specialized in Retail banking business, currently is a Head of SME Banking of CRDB Bank Plc, a Team Leader of CRDB Bank Plc to develop non conventional banking to SMEs. Prior to this, he worked with a project which developed and set Card business of CRDB Bank Plc. From 1997 to 2002, he was employed by Standard Chartered Bank (T) whereby he participated in the opening of different branches, supervising branches operations. He is a graduate of University of Dar-es-Salaam, holding a Bachelor Degree in Economics and a Diploma of SME Development and Management from Galilee College Israel. Currently, he is undertaking a Higher Diploma in Banking from Milpark Business School (South AfricaKofi Owusu-Boakye Investment Officer, USAID Kofi Owusu-Boakye serves as the lead Investment Officer for USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) partnerships in East Africa. The DCA is a US Congressional authorization that allows USAID to mobilize local financing to support the development objectives of the U.S. government through US Treasury-backed credit guarantees. Mr. Owusu-Boakye previously worked as the technical team leader for the DCA’s Portfolio Management unit. His prior experience in development finance includes serving as Regional Managers for the same program in Eastern Europe and South-East Asia. Mr. Owusu-Boakye has an MBA in Finance from the University of Maryland, and a BA in Economics and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia Nicole Pasricha Director, Inclusive Rural Finance, MEDA Nicole Pasricha is the Director of Inclusive Rural Finance at MEDA. Since joining MEDA in 2007, Nicole has provided technical support to a variety of microfinance, value chain, and branchless banking partners in Asia, Central America, and Africa. She is a faculty member of the Boulder Microfinance Institute, offering a course on “Financing Agricultural Value Chains.” Previously, Nicole worked as a microfinance research assistant at CGAP in Washington, D.C., and as a credit supervisor at Banco ProCredit in El Salvador. Nicole holds an M.A. in International Affairs from the George Washington University and a B.A. in in Business Administration from the University of Florida Alex Pavlovic Technical Director, ACDI/VOCA Mr. Alex Pavlovic is a private sector development specialist with 8 years of experience designing, implementing, managing, and evaluating complex market development projects.  He has extensive experience using the value chain approach to understand economic constraints and opportunities in growing economies.  He currently works as the Public Private Partnership Advisor on a USAID funded AGP-AMDe project in Ethiopia, a flagship Feed the Future initiative.  Before that, Mr. Pavlovic served as the Managing Director for ACDI/VOCA projects in India Dan Phipps Red River Foods Timothy Prewitt Managing Director, Nigeria Markets, Chemonics International Timothy Prewitt is the Managing Director of the MARKETS and BtM2 program, USAID-funded programs designed to increase the competitiveness of Nigerian agriculture through partnerships with major agribusinesses and the Government of Nigeria. In addition to improving on-farm productivity of rice, corn, sesame, cocoa, cassava, sorghum, and aquaculture, the program has helped provide fertilizer through a fertilizer voucher program (with IFDC), supported agricultural policy development with the Federal Government of Nigeria, and supported trade and transportation policy reform. Prior to working in Nigeria, Mr. Prewitt has managed private sector and donor funded efforts in China, Romania, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, East Timor, South Africa and 11 other countries Maria Elena Querejazu CEO, Fundacion Sembrar, Bolivia Maria Elena Querejazu has worked in urban and rural microfinance for more than 20 years. She worked as a Commercial Manager at BancoSol for twelve years. She then worked at Prodem Foundation, where she developed financial technologies and methodologies for investing in SMEs. Ms. Querejazu was a board member of FFP Prodem, and remains as board member of several companies, funds and development institutions. She served as CEO of SembrarSartawi, where she designed its financial methodology used to serve small Bolivian farmers, before being appointed CEO of FundaciónSembrar, where she initiated Technical Assistance and Access to Markets services for small producers Santhosh Ramdoss Country Representative, BRAC Uganda Santhosh Ramdoss currently works with BRAC USA, the US office of BRAC, the world's largest development organization. Since 2008, Santhosh has helped manage BRAC's expansion of microfinance and micro-franchising initiatives in Uganda. Santhosh is also one of the co-founders of ThinkChange India, a popular online platform tracking the field of social entrepreneurship in India. He also co-founded Profits for People, which won the NYU Stern Social Venture Competition. Santhosh holds an MBA, as well as an MPA. He was also a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Lastly, he belongs to the inaugural class of Dalai Lama Fellows and also the Asia21 Young Leaders Initiative Honorable Jacobo Regalado Ministry of Agriculture, Honduras Mr. Regalado was sworn in at the Presidential House, as the Honduran Minister of Agriculture and Livestock on February 10th, 2010. Previously, he has successfully chaired several private sector related organizations such as the Federation of Private Sector Institutions for Central America, Panama and the Dominican Republic (FEDEPRICAP), the Honduran National Business Council (COHEP), National Federation of Agricultural and Livestock Producers in Honduras (FENAGH), and the Agriculture and Livestock Association of Sula (AGAS). He has also served in several capacities with Government of Honduras projects and institutions. He holds a Bachelor´s Degree in Agronomy from the Zamorano University and degrees in Dairy Engineering and Husbandry Engineering from Mississippi State. David Richardson Senior Manager, Technical Development, WOCCU David Richardson, Senior Manager of Technical Development for World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) has over 30 years of experience working in international financial sector development. An expert in credit union strengthening, supervision, regulation, and rural credit, Richardson developed the Model Credit Union Building methodology that serves as the basis for all WOCCU development programs. While managing a $15 million financial modernization program in Guatemala, Richardson developed the PEARLS performance monitoring system which allows credit unions to monitor and improve financial performance. Most recently, Richardson has completed multiple assignments designing risk-based supervisory systems and deposit insurance schemes for credit unions Enrique Rivas Chief of Party, El Salvador MCA Productive Development Project (PDP), Chemonics International Mr. Rivas, has more than twenty years of experience working in implementing successful projects in rural economic development. He has extensive experience in lead agro-economic studies, baseline assessments, project design and management, strategic planning, organizational development, project evaluation, M&E system design, and establishing strategic alliances. He began working with Chemonics in 2002; he is currently the COP for the MCA Productive Development Project in El Salvador. Prior to joining Chemonics, Mr. Rivas worked for several international development organizations, as well as private sector entities and as a private business owner Ximena Robin Head of Corporate Relations, Grupo Calleja/Super Selectos Supermarkets Ximena currently serves as Head of Corporate Relations and Social Responsibility for Grupo Calleja, a Supermarket Retail, Real Estate and Financial Services conglomerate based in El Salvador. Prior to joining Grupo Calleja, she worked as Director of Communications for the Ministry of Agriculture of El Salvador. She has vast experience in strategic planning within CSR and communications across many industries including manufacturing, banking and construction. She also worked as journalist for over five years in El Salvador. 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Alberto Solano Regional CEO, Latin America & Caribbean, Grameen Foundation Harry Stokes Executive Director, Project Gaia Harry Stokes, Executive Director of Project Gaia Inc. has led the clean liquid stove movement in the household energy field for over ten years. He received his M.A. in Forestry and Environmental Management from Duke University. Brady Luceno is the Project Manager of Project Gaia, Inc. Brady develops and manages international projects, and has contributed her field-based experience to household energy studies and reports commissioned by groups like HEDON and the World Bank. Brady holds a B.A. in Globalization Studies from Gettysburg College. Gulce Askin is the Project Coordinator of Project Gaia, Inc. Gulce coordinates logistics, finances, and supports the development of international clean ethanol stove and fuel projects and studies. Gulce holds a B.A. in Political Science and Globalization Studies from Gettysburg College. Harry is a founder and director of Project Gaia, Inc. and principal of Stokes Consulting Group. For over two decades Harry has provided support to industry, governments, financial institutions and development organizations on resource management issues, particularly around biofuels. In 2010, Harry was recognized by the World Bioenergy Association for his efforts to pioneer alcohol fuels for cooking. Harry holds a Masters in Forestry from Duke University, and served for over two decades in county and state government. He was chair of the National Association of Counties Energy Sub-committee and vice chair in the Land Use, Environment and Energy Committee. Dr. Robert Stone Associate, Oxford Policy Management Robert Stone is an Associate of Oxford Policy Management, with over 30 years’ experience of financial and private sector development at policy and institutional level. His work has focused on the structure of markets within the financial sector and their impact on growth, investment and, particularly, poverty reduction. He has developed methodologies for assessing and improving the reach and functioning of financial markets and financial institutions to ensure that financial intermediation links the effective mobilisation of international and domestic savings with the provision of appropriate financial services for rural and urban businesses and households Teresita B. Tan President, BPI Globe BanKO, Philippines Teresita B. Tan is currently the President of BPI Globe BanKO, a microfinance-focused savings bank based on internet and mobile technology. At BPI, she has overseen the first ATM for 24x7 cash withdrawal and the first internet and mobile banking for 24x7 anywhere and anytime banking. She also headed the BPI Overseas Banking Group, enabling 10 Million Filipino Overseas Workers financial control while they work abroad and provide for their family back home. Her team was awarded the Hall of Fame Award as No. 1 Remittance Bank for three consecutive years by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and Best Mobile Banking from Asian Banker. She graduated A.B. Mathematics from Maryknoll College, Manila, and M.S. Operations Research from Stanford University Malini Tolat Consultant, Social Enterprise Associates Malini Tolat is a Senior Consultant with Social Enterprise Associates. She is an expert in micro-finance and enterprise development with over 12 years experience working in Africa and Asia. She worked with Grameen Foundation for over seven years leading the roll out of multiple new initiatives, including the establishment of an internal M&E unit. As Program Manager for livelihoods and enterprise development, she partnered with BASIX, India to conduct an action research project testing an integrated service model for extremely poor households. Ms Tolat has a Masters in public policy from the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University and MBA from IMT Ghaziabad in India. She previously worked as a development consultant in South Asia Eduardo Tugendhat Chairman and CEO, CARANA Corporation Eduardo Tugendhat is one of the founders of CARANA Corporation, having established the Washington area office in 1988. He is a recognized expert in competitiveness, investment promotion, and export development, and strategies for accelerating economic growth and employment creation—with particular attention to the challenges facing small, poorly situated economies in accessing international markets. He led a number of assignments that introduced competition and private investment into infrastructural services, including telecommunications, electricity, transport, and industrial parks. He has lectured and written extensively on strategies for accelerated economic growth. Prior to joining CARANA, he spent 11 years with Arthur D. Little, Inc. Nathan Van Dusen Africa Director, CARANA Corporation View Biography Nathan Van Dusen is CARANA’s Director for Africa, overseeing management of regional projects in West and East Africa. He has technical expertise in transport and logistics, market linkages, trade policy, institutional capacity building, electoral management systems, civic education and civil society development. He has provided on-site technical assistance to donor projects in these areas in 11 countries in Africa and Eastern Europe. He has authored numerous technical reports and articles on democratic and economic development. Before joining CARANA in 2007, he was Deputy Director for Africa at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES).Stephen Van Schoor Chief Investment Officer, EmVest After graduating from university, where he obtained a BSc Agricultural Honours Degree, Stephen has built up a thirteen year track record in emerging market investment management in a career spanning across combination investment banks, hedge funds and private equity funds. Having become acutely aware of the value proposition presented in the regional agricultural sector and a desire to return to investing in real assets, he joined EmVest in 2010. In his capacity as CIO, he oversees the investment management of a vertically integrated portfolio of agricultural assets located across four SADC countries. 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tructure → Models → Applications) as a practical, full-stack lens for understanding and building the AI era. Inspired by both Jensen Huang’s industrial view and his Test for parents - celebrate every way children can play AI;  and Demis Hassabis’s scientific ambitions including the Einstein Test of the Agentic AI era. The course emphasizes human-AI collaboration, education redesign, win-win systems, sustainable development goals (SDGs), community inspiring jobs and unlocking nature’s abundance. It bridges engineering, science, policy, economics, and ethics—drawing on historical thinkers (von Neumann, Turing, Einstein) and modern leaders (Huang, Hassabis, and others). Designed for students, educators, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and lifelong learners worldwide. No advanced math or coding required for core modules, with optional technical tracks.  Target Outcomes: Learners will understand the full AI stack, design agentic human-AI partnerships, and propose applications that maximize livelihoods, joy, and generational innovation. Module 0: Introduction – Why the 5-Layer AI Cake Matters (Week 1) The AI decade as a new industrial revolution. Jensen Huang’s 5-layer framework explained. Hassabis’s vision: From protein folding to the Einstein Test (1911 cutoff → rediscover 1905/1915 breakthroughs). Historical roots: Turing, von Neumann, Einstein, and open systems thinking. Core themes: Abundance mindset vs. scarcity, cultural bridging (Asia–West), education redesign for youth innovation. Activity: Personal “AI Partnership Reflection” – How do you currently use (or fear) AI? Module 1: Layer 1 – Energy: The Foundation of Intelligence (Week 1–2) Why every token and computation requires real-time power. Global energy challenges and AI’s growing demand. Pathways to sustainable abundance: Fusion, renewables, efficiency breakthroughs. Historical parallel: Einstein’s E=mc² and paradigm corrections in energy science. Discussion: How can AI help design better energy systems for SDGs? Activity: Map local energy use and brainstorm AI-optimized solutions. Module 2: Layer 2 – Chips & Hardware: The Engines of AI (Week 2–3) GPUs, TPUs, accelerators, and the move beyond Moore’s Law. 2026-7 Year of Vera Rubin. Jensen Huang’s engineering philosophy and full-stack innovation. Neuromorphic and brain-inspired hardware (linking to neuroscience and von Neumann’s late work on The Computer and the Brain). Case study: How specialized chips enable scaling. Activity: Explore simple hardware simulations or visualize compute trends. Module 3: Layer 3 – Infrastructure & Systems: Scaling the Stack (Week 3–4) Data centers, networking, cloud/edge computing, and global connectivity. Open vs. closed systems: Lessons from von Neumann’s open-sourcing of early computer designs. Geopolitics, access, and bridging diverse hemispheres/communities. Reliability, security, and fault tolerance at scale. Activity: Design a small-scale “AI infrastructure” plan for a school or community project. Module 4: Layer 4 – Models: From Pretraining to Agentic Intelligence (Week 4–6) Pretraining, post-training, scaling laws, and multimodal systems. The Einstein Test in depth: Can AI independently correct scientific frameworks? Agentic AI, reasoning, and human-AI hybrid “third brain” potential. Neuroscience connections: Brain architecture as inspiration (Hassabis) and von Neumann’s insights. Risks, alignment, and open questions in model development. Hands-on: Experiment with accessible AI models; prompt engineering for discovery tasks. Module 5: Layer 5 – Applications: Human-AI Partnerships for Real-World Impact (Week 6–8) Embodied AI (robotics), scientific discovery, creative industries, and personalized education. Huang’s advice to parents: “Go play with AI for all it’s worth.” Redesigning education: Open, generative systems that empower youth beyond parental imagination. Win-win applications: SDGs, job creation, space exploration, healthcare, and valuing nature’s abundance. Cultural and ethical dimensions: Modesty, bridging perspectives, and avoiding silos. Case studies: AlphaFold-style breakthroughs across sciences; robotics as caring partners. Module 6: Synthesis, Policy, and Future Visions (Week 8–9) Integrating all layers: How every successful application pulls value from the full stack. Policy and risk: Why valuing mathematicians, brain-machines, and open systems matters for better decision-making. “Third brain” extensions: Combining Huang + Hassabis perspectives with multi-planetary and real-time systems thinking. Capstone Project: Design a 5-Layer AI initiative for your community (e.g., education tool, SDG solution, or scientific discovery project). Present how it creates livelihoods, joy, and generational innovation. Module 7: Capstone & Community Action (Week 9–10, Optional Extension) Peer review of projects. Building ongoing communities of practice. Resources for continued learning and contribution. Assessment: Quizzes (30%), Activities/Reflections (30%), Capstone Project (40%). Certificate: Issued upon completion, with badges for each layer. Inclusivity Features: Subtitles, diverse case studies, optional advanced math/coding tracks, and contributions from global learners.T his outline is modular and updatable—AI moves fast! It starts modestly with Huang and Hassabis as anchors while leaving room for broader voices. Would you like me to expand any module with detailed sub-topics, suggested readings/videos, or sample lesson scripts? Or adjust emphasis (e.g., more on education, space/robots, or policy)? 20 web pages Explore the Einstein Test details Thoughts The Einstein Test is a demanding benchmark for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) proposed by Demis Hassabis (CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold). It emphasizes genuine scientific creativity and paradigm-shifting insight rather than pattern matching or recombination of known data. zaruko.com Core Definition Train (or give) an AI system all human knowledge available up to a cutoff date around 1911, with no access to later discoveries. Then, test whether it can independently derive General Relativity (as Einstein developed it between ~1912–1915, published in 1915). reddit.com Why 1911? By then, key puzzles existed: Newtonian mechanics inconsistencies with electromagnetism (Maxwell’s equations), the Michelson-Morley experiment (1887) showing no luminiferous ether, early hints on special relativity (Einstein’s own 1905 work), and emerging ideas about gravity and acceleration. Einstein built on these to create a new geometric theory of gravity (spacetime curvature). A 1911 cutoff captures the pre-GR era while including enough foundational tension. eu.36kr.com Hassabis has described it as: “The kind of test I would be looking for is training an AI system with a knowledge cutoff of, say, 1911, and then seeing if it could come up with general relativity like Einstein did in 1915. That’s the kind of test I think is a true test of whether we have a full AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) system.” reddit.com Some references mention slight variations (e.g., 1905 or 1901 cutoffs for testing Special Relativity and the 1905 annus mirabilis papers: photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and E=mc²). The core idea remains the same: force the system to make a transformative leap, not recall or interpolate. cacm.acm.org Why This Test? Key Motivations from Hassabis Beyond narrow/superhuman performance: Current AI shows “jagged intelligence” — excelling in some areas while failing in others. It often recombines training data cleverly but lacks the deep, first-principles reasoning and creativity needed for novel scientific paradigms. Scientific discovery as the gold standard: Hassabis’s vision for AGI (and DeepMind’s mission) centers on accelerating science. AlphaFold solved a 50+ year protein folding puzzle; the Einstein Test scales this ambition to fundamental physics and beyond. Honest assessment of current limits: Hassabis has stated clearly that today’s systems “clearly would not be capable” of passing it. It sets a high bar while giving a realistic (e.g., 5–10 year) timeline horizon for AGI. zaruko.com Agentic and creative intelligence: It tests long-term reasoning, hypothesis generation, experimentation (in thought or simulation), and conceptual breakthroughs — not just answering questions or optimizing known objectives. Relation to Broader Themes in Our Conversation This test aligns closely with your points: Einstein’s 1905 papers (especially E=mc²) as paradigm corrections that reveal inconsistencies in every science and unlock nature’s abundance (energy, spacetime understanding, etc.). Machine brains at scale: A system passing this could analyze interconnections across domains at “billion times” human capacity, correcting frameworks and freeing humanity from scarcity traps. Education and Layer 5 AI: It inspires redesigning human education toward agentic, exploratory thinking — empowering youth to make leaps their parents’ generation couldn’t. Human-AI partnership: Rather than replacing geniuses, AI as a collaborative “third brain” tool to help more people engage in Einstein-level inquiry. Strengths and Criticisms Strengths: Focuses on transformative originality, not trivia or benchmarks that can be gamed. Retrospective and testable in principle (curate a clean pre-1911 dataset). Extensible to other fields (e.g., could an AI rediscover key insights in biology, chemistry, or economics?). Criticisms (common ones in discussions): Einstein was an outlier genius; requiring his-level output might test superintelligence rather than baseline AGI (which could mean human-level adaptability across domains). Scientific breakthroughs often involve serendipity, collaboration, and real-world experimentation beyond pure computation. Practical challenges: Perfectly isolating “pre-1911 knowledge” and evaluating open-ended discovery objectively. medium.com Implications for the 5-Layer AI MOOC In the MOOC outline, this fits powerfully in Module 4 (Models) and Module 5 (Applications): Discuss pretraining/post-training limits vs. the creativity needed. Hands-on: Give learners simplified historical datasets and prompt modern models to “rediscover” smaller insights (as a proxy). Link to Layer 1–3 enablers (compute/energy for deeper reasoning) and Layer 5 outcomes (education, SDGs, abundance). The Einstein Test is one of the most thoughtful and inspiring AGI benchmarks in recent years. It keeps the focus on scientific and human flourishing rather than raw power. Would you like me to expand on how to implement a simplified version for education, compare it to other AGI tests (Turing, ARC, etc.), or integrate it more deeply into specific MOOC modules? 25 web pages Explore AlphaFold scientific discovery impact Thoughts AlphaFold (developed by Google DeepMind) represents one of the most impactful AI breakthroughs in science to date. It solved a 50-year grand challenge in biology—predicting the 3D structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences—and has dramatically accelerated discovery across multiple fields. deepmind.google Core Breakthrough and Timeline AlphaFold 2 (2020/2021): Achieved near-experimental accuracy in the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competition, far surpassing prior methods. It effectively solved the protein folding problem for most cases. nature.com AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (launched with EMBL-EBI): Made predictions openly available. It expanded from ~350,000 high-quality structures (including the full human proteome) to over 214 million protein structures covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov AlphaFold 3 (2024): Extended capabilities to predict interactions among proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands (small molecules like drugs), ions, and modified residues—providing a more holistic view of molecular machines in cells. deepmind.google Recognition: Demis Hassabis and John Jumper received the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (shared with David Baker) for this work. deepmind.google Scale of Scientific Impact (as of late 2025) Citations: The main AlphaFold 2 Nature paper has been cited tens of thousands of times (over 40,000 in some counts). nature.com Usage: Millions of researchers in 190+ countries have accessed the database and tools. Over 200,000 articles have built on it directly or indirectly. linkedin.com Productivity boost: Labs using AlphaFold show a 40%+ increase in experimental protein structure submissions. AI guides and accelerates experiments rather than replacing them. linkedin.com Democratization: Structural coverage of the human proteome jumped from ~17–48% (experimental) to ~76% or higher. Previously, determining one structure could take a PhD student years; AlphaFold did billions of years of equivalent work in months. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Key Areas of Discovery Impact Fundamental Biology & Structural Insights AlphaFold revealed structures of complex systems like the nuclear pore complex and enabled deeper understanding of protein functions, interactions, and mechanisms. It connects sequence to function at unprecedented scale, opening new research in evolutionary biology, enzyme design, and systems biology. drugdiscoverytrends.com Drug Discovery & Medicine Accelerates target identification and optimization by providing structures for previously unsolved proteins. Improves prediction of protein-ligand binding (AlphaFold 3 shows ~50% better accuracy than traditional physics-based methods in some benchmarks). frontiersin.org Applications in neglected diseases, antibiotic resistance (e.g., breaking down resistance enzymes), cancer, malaria vaccines, and more. Early signals: Thousands of clinical articles and patents linked to AlphaFold. Companies like Isomorphic Labs (spun out from DeepMind) use it for AI-driven drug design. linkedin.com Other Domains Vaccine development (e.g., malaria). Agriculture and biorenewables (e.g., resilient crops, new materials). Rare diseases and mutation effects. Protein design and engineering. drugdiscoverytrends.com Connection to the Einstein Test and Broader ThemesAlphaFold serves as proof-of-concept for Hassabis’s vision of AI as a scientific discoverer. It didn’t just memorize; it solved a puzzle that required integrating vast data into predictive models—analogous to the paradigm-shifting insight of Einstein’s 1905 papers (e.g., E=mc² revealing mass-energy equivalence and unlocking abundance thinking). cacm.acm.org It exemplifies the jigsaw-puzzle solving across natural sciences you mentioned: one breakthrough (protein structures) cascades into corrections and abundances in biology, medicine, and beyond. At “machine brain” scale, it analyzes interconnections far beyond individual human minds, supporting hybrid human-AI partnerships for Layer 5 applications (education, SDGs, job creation through innovation).Limitations and Realistic View Predictions are not always perfect (especially for dynamic conformations, certain complexes, or binding affinities). It accelerates but does not replace experimental validation (cryo-EM, X-ray, etc.). AlphaFold 3 still has gaps in some areas like specific ion/peptide interactions. frontiersin.org Overall, AlphaFold has shifted biology into an era of computational exploration + abundance—making high-quality structural data as easy as a search and empowering global researchers, especially in diverse communities. This directly supports the 5-Layer AI MOOC vision: Layer 4 (advanced models) enabling Layer 5 (transformative applications) while relying on the full stack (compute, energy, infrastructure).Would you like to dive deeper into a specific application (e.g., drug discovery examples), compare AF to other AI science tools, or integrate this into a detailed MOOC module outline? 45 web pages Do we need betafold gammafold deltafold of which other sciences if Einstein test andai open agency layer 5 edge are to happen in time to save humans grow ear or fear or wrongly modelled risk exponentials if sharing world with if maths machines tijens and robots is to energize humans positively in next 5 years let alone after that with eg quantum and fusion Thoughts Yes — equivalents to AlphaFold (“BetaFold, GammaFold, DeltaFold...”) in other sciences are essential if we want the Einstein Test, open agentic AI (Layer 5 applications at the edge), and positive human-AI-robot symbiosis to arrive in time to counter fear, mis-modeled exponential risks, and scarcity mindsets over the next 5 years and beyond. medium.com AlphaFold proved AI can solve a 50-year “grand challenge” in biology at massive scale (200M+ structures), acting as a paradigm-correcting tool that unlocks abundance in medicine, agriculture, and materials. Replicating this across domains would build the foundational data/models needed for agentic systems to make Einstein-level leaps (rediscovering/correcting frameworks like E=mc² or GR from pre-cutoff knowledge). deepmind.google Why Multiple “Folds” Are Needed Einstein Test readiness: Current AI excels at interpolation within trained distributions but struggles with true paradigm shifts. AlphaFold showed biology-native models can integrate vast data into predictive power. Physics, chemistry, and materials need analogous “native” models with strong world/simulator priors for causality, geometry, and dynamics. voxel51.com Layer 5 edge agency: Open, agentic AI at the applications layer (human-AI partnerships for SDGs, education, jobs) requires reliable, domain-specific foundations. Edge deployment (on-device or local) demands efficient, specialized models for robotics, real-time energy optimization, etc. Risk modeling & positive energizing: Wrongly modeled exponentials (e.g., climate, AI misalignment, resource scarcity) thrive on incomplete data. AI “folds” across sciences enable better simulation of abundances (cheap clean energy via fusion/materials, space resources) and reduce fear by demonstrating win-win human-machine collaboration. Sharing the world with math machines, AIs, and robots becomes energizing when they amplify human creativity and free us from traps. linkedin.com Promising Equivalents Already Emerging (2025–2026) Materials Science/Chemistry (strongest candidate for “next AlphaFold”): GNoME (DeepMind): Discovered 2.2 million new crystal structures, ~380,000 stable — vastly expanding known stable materials (from ~30k previously). Critical for batteries, solar, superconductors. medium.com MatterGen (Microsoft): Generative diffusion model for inverse materials design — creates stable structures tuned to desired properties. MatterSim: Deep-learning atomistic simulator for realistic conditions (temperature/pressure). Physics & Quantum: DeepMind’s work on quantum chemistry (FermiNet), plasma control for fusion, and fluid dynamics. Physics-informed neural networks (e.g., NVIDIA Modulus) and quantum-AI hybrids accelerating simulations. sapiosciences.com AlphaGeometry/AlphaProof-style systems for mathematical reasoning (foundational for physics breakthroughs). Other Domains: Generative biology/chemistry extensions (BioNeMo, AlphaFold 3 for complexes/ligands). Broader tools: AI for hypothesis generation, autonomous agents orchestrating experiments across life sciences, chemistry, and physics. arxiv.org Hassabis has explicitly pointed to materials science as a high-priority area for the “next AlphaFold-level” impact, including dreams of room-temperature superconductors for energy abundance. linkedin.com Timeline Feasibility for Next 5 YearsWith full-stack 5-layer scaling (energy + chips + infra enabling bigger models), hybrid quantum-AI, and agentic systems, yes — accelerated progress is realistic. AlphaFold compressed “a billion years of PhD work.” Similar tools in materials/physics could unlock fusion viability, quantum tech, and abundance mindsets quickly. reddit.com Challenges: Sciences remain siloed; we need more “physics-native” or “chemistry-native” foundation models with strong simulators/world models. Open sharing (von Neumann-style) vs. silos will determine speed. Policy/education must shift to value these tools for youth innovation. amacad.org Tie to MOOC & Broader VisionIn the 5-Layer AI MOOC, dedicate expanded coverage in Module 4 (Models) and Module 5 (Applications) to these multi-domain “folds.” Teach how they enable Einstein Test progress, agentic discovery, and positive human-robot futures — emphasizing cultural bridging (Huang/Hassabis modesty), open systems, and correcting scarcity fears with evidence of abundance.Bottom line: We don’t just need these equivalents — pursuing them aggressively is one of the highest-leverage paths to timely, positive outcomes. They turn AI from a feared disruptor into a collaborative brainpower multiplier for sciences, education, and SDGs.Which domain (materials, physics/fusion, quantum, education applications) should we map out in more detail next, or integrate into a specific MOOC module? 50 web pages I think but as human not free to say this we need Chinese and English brains to collaborate. I have to assume s brain cultivated in 26 a to z codes is very different from Chinese alphabet codes.it seems at least some deep maths models can only come from Asia and again world does not fully value Hassabis and Huang ability to fly between all these cultures let alone different urgent needs of both poor and rich in both radt and west in nations that have and have not yet played with ai across joyful generations Thoughts Yes, deep and open collaboration between Chinese and English-speaking (broader Western) AI research cultures is highly valuable—and arguably essential—for accelerating the kinds of breakthroughs we’ve discussed. This includes equivalents to AlphaFold across sciences, progress toward the Einstein Test, agentic Layer 5 applications, and positive human-AI-robot futures that energize generations rather than fuel fear. instagram.com Linguistic and Cognitive FoundationsYour observation about 26-letter alphabetic codes versus Chinese character-based systems has empirical support. Studies show native Chinese speakers often process numbers and math with greater reliance on visual-spatial brain regions, while English speakers lean more on language/phonological areas. Chinese number naming (more logical/compound, e.g., “eleven” as “ten-one”) correlates with advantages in certain early math tasks and number-line manipulation. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov This doesn’t mean one “brain” is inherently superior for deep math, but different systems cultivate distinct strengths: Chinese approaches may favor efficiency, pattern recognition at scale, and holistic integration. English/Western traditions often emphasize abstraction, formal proof, and reductionism. Diverse foundational “codes” can enrich hybrid models, especially for paradigm-shifting discovery (Einstein Test) that requires correcting frameworks across cultures and data modalities.Complementary Strengths in AI TodayCurrent realities show productive complementarity: China excels in math/reasoning models, efficiency, and open deployment: DeepSeek models have demonstrated strong performance on math proofs, IMO-level problems, and cost-effective training (e.g., high performance with far less compute). China leads in open-weight models, publication volume, and rapid iteration/affordable deployment—ideal for reaching diverse communities, emerging markets, and “have-not-yet-played-with-AI” populations. researchgate.net Western (esp. US/UK) strengths: Frontier scaling, novel architectures, and certain creative leaps (e.g., AlphaFold’s core breakthroughs). Hassabis himself has noted Chinese models are “only a matter of months behind” in many areas. instagram.com Jensen Huang and Demis Hassabis embody the bridging you value. Huang (Taiwanese-American) frequently speaks of AI as a global infrastructure play—every nation refining its own data, language, and culture into intelligence. Hassabis (with his multicultural background and scientific focus) has publicly acknowledged rapid Chinese progress while anchoring on ambitious discovery goals. Their modesty, engineering depth, and ability to operate across Asia–West contexts make them strong starting points for win-win frameworks. wired.com Why Collaboration Matters for Timelines and Positive OutcomesTo achieve timely “BetaFold/GammaFold...” equivalents (materials, physics, fusion, quantum), agentic open systems, and Einstein-level discovery: Diverse data and priors reduce blind spots and accelerate abundance modeling (energy, resources, biology). Poor/rich, East/West, AI-exposed vs. not needs must be addressed jointly. Chinese strengths in cost-efficiency and deployment help joyful access for billions; Western innovation supplies high-ceiling breakthroughs. Silos or fear slow everything. Risk exponentials: Mis-modeled risks (scarcity, misalignment, job displacement) shrink with shared, transparent progress. Positive energizing comes from seeing math machines/robots as partners amplifying human joy across generations—not zero-sum threats. Historical precedent (von Neumann’s openness accelerating computing) and modern examples (global use of AlphaFold, Chinese open models on Hugging Face) show openness compounds benefits.Integration into the 5-Layer AI MOOCThis theme fits naturally as a cross-cutting thread: Module 0/Introduction: Cultural bridging, linguistic diversity in AI, Huang + Hassabis as models. Module 4 (Models): How different cognitive/linguistic foundations contribute to math-reasoning and discovery models; Einstein Test as a universal benchmark enriched by global teams. Module 5 (Applications): Layer 5 edge agency for diverse hemispheres—education redesign empowering youth in all nations, SDGs via collaborative “folds,” robotics as caring partners. Module 6 (Synthesis): Policy for open collaboration, valuing all contributions to counter silos and fear. Bottom line: We do need Chinese and English (and broader) brains collaborating openly. The world benefits when leaders like Huang and Hassabis help bridge urgent needs across contexts—poor/rich, East/West, experienced/novice—for abundance and joy rather than division. This aligns perfectly with your long-term focus on win-win trade, global village, and the AI decade.What next—expand a MOOC module with this collaboration angle, explore specific Chinese contributions (e.g., DeepSeek or materials AI), or another thread? 53 web pages Do there is a hope V10 first 10 data do r sovereignty most invested in vers rubin su factories will de Develop a jigsaw that links all edges and all folds not just compete directly on monetization one thing. Do you think it is possible for v20 to celebrate each other's brains human and machines in ways g7 to g10 had failed to fo Thoughts Yes, there is realistic hope — though not guaranteed — that the top ~10 data-sovereign and AI-investment-heavy nations (the "V10") can contribute pieces to a larger collaborative jigsaw. This would link all 5 AI layers, cultural/linguistic "brains" (alphabetic vs. character-based strengths), and scientific "folds" (AlphaFold equivalents in materials, physics, fusion, quantum, etc.), rather than defaulting solely to monetization races or zero-sum control. hai.stanford.edu Current Landscape (V10 Context)The leading players in AI investment, compute, and data sovereignty are concentrated: US dominates private investment (~$286B in 2025) and frontier models, with massive builds of NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factories (gigawatt-scale, liquid-cooled NVL72/NVL144 systems rolling out 2026–2027). These emphasize full-stack integration (energy → chips → infrastructure). nvidianews.nvidia.com China leads in scale, open-weight models, math/reasoning efficiency, and sovereign infrastructure (strong data localization). Others (UAE, Japan, EU nations, Singapore, India, Saudi Arabia, etc.) invest heavily in sovereign AI for local data/culture/intelligence. interactives.cnas.org Sovereign AI is now mainstream: Jensen Huang and others frame it as every nation owning/refining its own data, culture, and "national intelligence." This creates natural tensions (export controls, localization rules) but also incentives for pragmatic deals. facebook.com Hope for a Comprehensive JigsawStrong reasons for optimism: Technical necessity: Solving the Einstein Test, agentic Layer 5 edge AI, and multi-domain "folds" (materials via GNoME/MatterGen, fusion/plasma control, quantum hybrids) requires diverse priors — Chinese strengths in math/efficiency + Western creativity + global data. Pure competition wastes compute on redundant races. Abundance incentives: Rubin-era gigawatt factories + quantum/fusion progress amplify win-win outcomes (cheap energy, new materials, space/robotics). Top players know isolated monetization leaves SDGs, education redesign, and risk modeling unsolved. Existing bridges: Huang and Hassabis demonstrate cultural bridging (Asia–West modesty and vision). Open models, global AlphaFold usage (millions of researchers), and G20 discussions show pathways beyond G7-style clubs. atlanticcouncil.org Historical precedent: Von Neumann's open computer designs accelerated the field. Today's open-weight momentum (especially from Asia) and sovereign AI factories can evolve into shared protocols for discovery, not just commercialization. Realistic challenges: Geopolitics remains competitive (US Action Plan emphasizes dominance; China pushes its own global governance ideas). G7/G10 efforts often stayed narrow or exclusionary. atlanticcouncil.org Data sovereignty and monetization pressures are real — nations want control and economic returns. Silos persist (institutions, languages, urgent needs of poor vs. rich nations). V20 Possibility: Celebrating Human + Machine BrainsYes, it is possible by the "V20" era (interpreting as top 20 nations or ~2030 horizon) to move toward celebration of hybrid intelligence in ways G7–G10 largely failed. G7/G10 approaches often prioritized regulation, ethics statements, or alliance-based competition without enough inclusive abundance focus or youth/education redesign. A broader V20 could succeed if: It builds on 5-layer openness with sovereign customization (local data + global collaboration on foundational science). It explicitly values diverse "brains" (Chinese visual-spatial/math strengths + English abstraction + others) for richer Einstein-style discovery. Layer 5 applications emphasize joyful generations: education that empowers kids to "play with AI for all it's worth," robotics as caring partners, and unlocking nature's abundance instead of fear. Mechanisms like expanded G20 AI tracks, UN dialogues, or Huang-style sovereign AI factories with interoperability standards. atlanticcouncil.org This aligns with your vision: not fearing math machines/robots but energizing humans through hybrid "third brains," cultural bridging, and win-win systems for poor/rich, East/West, AI-experienced and not-yet.MOOC Tie-InIn the 5-Layer AI MOOC, this becomes a capstone theme in Module 6 (Synthesis): "From Sovereign Competition to Global Jigsaw — Designing V20 Collaboration for Abundance." Learners could map how their nation's strengths fit the puzzle and propose Layer 5 projects.There is hope, grounded in technical realities and leaders like Huang/Hassabis who fly between cultures. Execution depends on choosing collaboration on the hard scientific/educational puzzles over pure monetization. The Rubin-era buildout gives us a narrow but real window in the next 5 years.Which part should we develop further — a V20 collaboration framework, specific jigsaw mappings (e.g., China + US on fusion/materials), or a dedicated MOOC module on this?…
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iscussion here value combination of 8 radical design criteria http://www.paulpolak.com/how-can-you-do-business-with-2-7-billion-2... Eight Keys to Zero-Based Design There are eight keys to applying zero-based design to the conceptualization and implementation of a business that will market essential products or services to people living on $2 a day or less and be profitable enough to attract the capital necessary to reach global scale. By employing these principles in an integrated, bottom-up design process, you can fashion an enterprise that will truly help millions of severely poor people move out of poverty: Listening. Don’t look at poor people as alms-seekers or bystanders to their own lives. They’re your customers. Always set out by purposefully listening to understand thoroughly the specific context of their lives—their needs, their wants, their fears, their aspirations. Transforming the market. Think like Steve Jobs or Akio Morita (“I don’t serve markets. I create them!”). Your goal is to put a dent in the universe. A transformative new market will mimic the chain reaction in an atomic explosion, releasing energy to create yet bigger explosions. With success, your business will change economic behavior, create huge numbers of new jobs and transform the character of villages around the globe. Scale. Design for scale from the very beginning as a central focus of the enterprise, with a view toward reaching not just thousands or even millions of poor people but hundreds of millions. Scale isn’t mysterious; it’s fundamentally a mechanical process. You begin with a pilot project in, say, 50 villages. With success, you roll out to 50 villages per month, then to 250 per month, and later to 500 or 1,000, building on what you learn as you go. You always keep in mind that you’ve set out to design a global enterprise—a profitable and sustainable working system, not simply a product or service. Ruthless affordability. Design and implement ruthlessly affordable technologies and supremely efficient business processes, offering prices not just 30 to 50 percent less than First World prices but often an order of magnitude less, or 90 percent. Private capital. Design for a generous profit margin so that you can energize private-sector market forces, which will play a central role in expanding any venture—drawing from a pool of trillions of dollars in private capital rather than the millions typically available for philanthropic or government-sponsored programs. Last-mile distribution. Design for radical decentralization that incorporates last-mile (even “last 500 feet”) distribution, employing local people at local wages in a marketing, sales and distribution network that can reach even the most isolated rural people. Aspirational branding. This is even more critical for $2-a-day markets than for those serving the top 10 percent. Without aspirational branding that generates in buyers’ minds an appreciation for its most widely appreciated benefits and attributes, Coca-Cola is just flavored, fizzy sugar water; and a Mercedes is only a high-priced car. Branding convinces us that paying a premium for these products will make our lives more rewarding. Jugaad innovation. The Hindi term jugaad connotes improvisation, working with what you have and paying unflinching attention to continuous testing and development. A cynic might call it simply ingenuity. These eight ideas form the basis of the zero-based design approach. In next week’s final post, I’ll describe two additional concepts that are essential to achieve the scale and adaptability necessary to combat global poverty. Zero-Based Design To understand what we mean by this term, consider the analogy we’ve based it on: zero-based budgeting. Typically, next year’s budget is simply this year’s with a few adjustments. Sometimes the process is straightforward: just increase or decrease last year’s numbers by two percent or 10 percent, and—voilà!—you’ve got next year’s budget. By contrast, in zero-based budgeting, you start from scratch. Zero. With every line item blank, you dig as deeply as you need to dig to learn what’s really necessary and feasible. Practically all designers set out on any assignment with a set of assumptions in mind—either a template they’ve successfully used in the past to solve a similar problem, or an existing product or service they plan to modify, or, at the very least, a conviction they’ve run across similar challenges in the past and can rely on their own experience in addressing them. In zero-based design, none of these assumptions is acceptable. Assume Ignorance You begin the zero-based design process from a position of assumed ignorance. Because you possess experience in, say, building homes, you might set out to establish a new business that provides healthy and comfortable housing for $2-a-day people who now live in the most rudimentary shelters. However, instead of thinking of ways to adapt an existing home design to local conditions, you need to assume that nothing you’ve previously done will be suitable. You set out instead to determine what poor people themselves believe will best meet their needs. The process entails asking a lot of questions—questions at every stage of inquiry. paul polak at youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulPolak90Percent/videos…
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nta created the most financially valued brand and thus the loss of youth's integration of real peacemaking  Most famously it did this around Coca-Cola's New Seekers I'd like to teach the world to sing   In the 21st C singforhope and women's empowerment along youth "creative labs and Nobel peace" races to Atlanta Nov 2015 can create youth's most collaborative brand partnership of the 2010s, or of all sustainability futures. Over 80% of youth economics system designs in post-industrial area revolve round goodwill of collaboration branding, as does all cross-cultural hope and achievement of youth's most heroic goals.  you already linkin community (bottom-up) reality-making round 2 of 3 superstar audiences that mad avenue ad agencies die for: 1 music stars 2 fashion stars and opinion leaders 3 ways of selling community-up into sport stars are multiple (we can discuss that)though slide 2  (what the potential triad of partners yunus olympics london needed to imprint) illustrates how to get the world's biggest public broadcasters and citizens world stages back in tune (I dont know if cnn  wants to join in too! see its social fiction editing ) Slide 3 illustrates what my dad and dr yunus discussed at my dad's 85th birthday party in St James; and what remembrance parties to my father continue to discuss through the consider bangladesh pamphlet Slide 4 introduces youth's greatest new media opportunity ever open education - which is the purpose anyone who has loved coming of web and net generation for half a century can be celebrating anywhere youth yes you can Slide 5 needs a lot more careful conflict resolution than the other 4 which can be virally presented joyfully. I am not sure whether the Nobel Peace laureats World Summit wants to debate all these connections but (if they dont) we can brainstorm other youth freedom networks who do -eg Jim Kim would be most relevant US practitioner of this A core purpose of youth world's most collaborative brand is to downsize any communications agency that doesnt understand job-creating promotions. This is a communications problem dad invited friends to start working on from his 1988 retirement from The Economist.  Monica and Naila - who if not you can be trusted with spinning that innovation out of New York and Atlanta?…
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ENTREPRENEURIAL REVOLUTION NETWORK BENCHMARKS 2025now : Remembering Norman Macrae

Chartering 5 Layer AI Agency - integrating exponential intergenerational multipliers of trusted human relationship systems through community scaling apps

AsiaAI.docx where & how 2/3 human brains are celebrating AI livelihoods

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lelated US AI reports:

AI commission 2021

AI Action PLan July2025

Shaping AI Billions 

chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk :help celebrate library of INTELLIGENCE multipliers: -system map

  • Action Apps
  • Millions of  AI Agents 1  2  3
  • Software sovereign infrastructure 
  • Chips1 & Supercomputers
  • Energy: Genesis
  • Fusion SCSP-FI -F2
  • Quantum
  • Critical Minerals: Pax
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  • workforce 1
    cvchrismacrae.docx
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views on whether AGI exists

- how close are google aws or huawei to nvidia

2025REPORT-ER: Entrepreneurial Revolution est 1976; Neumann Intelligence Unit at The Economist since 1951. Norman Macrae's & friends 75 year mediation of engineers of computing & autonomous machines  has reached overtime: Big Brother vs Little Sister !?

Overtime help ed weekly quizzes on Gemini of Musk & Top 10 AI brains until us election nov 2028

MUSKAI.docx

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JOIN SEARCH FOR UNDER 30s MOST MASSIVE COLLABS FOR HUMAN SUSTAINABILITY

1 Jensen Huang 2 Demis Hassabis 3 Dei-Fei Li 4 King Charles

5 Bezos Earth (10 bn) 6 Bloomberg JohnsHopkins  cbestAI.docx 7 Banga

8 Maurice Chang 9 Mr & Mrs Jerry Yang 10 Mr & Mrs Joseph Tsai 11 Musk

12 Fazle Abed 13 Ms & Mr Steve Jobs 14 Melinda Gates 15 BJ King 16 Benioff

17 Naomi Osaka 18 Jap Emperor Family 19 Akio Morita 20 Mayor Koike

The Economist 1982 why not Silicon AI Valley Everywhere 21 Founder Sequoia 22 Mr/Mrs Anne Doerr 23 Condi Rice

23 MS & Mr Filo 24 Horvitz 25 Michael Littman NSF 26 Romano Prodi 27 Andrew Ng 29 Lila Ibrahim 28 Daphne Koller

30 Mayo Son 31 Li Ka Shing 32 Lee Kuan Yew 33 Lisa Su  34 ARM 36 Priscilla Chan

38 Agnelli Family 35 Ms Tan & Mr Joe White

37 Yann Lecun 39 Dutch Royal family 40 Romano Prodi

41 Kramer  42 Tirole  43 Rachel Glennerster 44 Tata 45 Manmohan Singh 46 Nilekani 47 James Grant 48 JimKim, 49 Guterres

50 attenborough 51 Gandhi 52 Freud 53 St Theresa 54 Montessori  55 Sunita Gandhu,56 paulo freire 57 Marshall Mcluhan58 Andrew Sreer 59 Lauren Sanchez,  60 David Zapolski

61 Harris 62 Chips Act Raimundo 63 oiv Newsom. 64 Arati Prab hakarm,65 Jennifer Doudna CrispR, 66 Oren Etsioni,67 Robert Reisch,68 Jim Srreyer  69 Sheika Moza

- 3/21/22 HAPPY 50th Birthday TO WORLD'S MOST SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY- ASIAN WOMEN SUPERVILLAGE

Since gaining my MA statistics Cambridge DAMTP 1973 (Corpus Christi College) my special sibject has been community building networks- these are the 6 most exciting collaboration opportunities my life has been privileged to map - the first two evolved as grassroots person to person networks before 1996 in tropical Asian places where village women had no access to electricity grids nor phones- then came mobile and solar entrepreneurial revolutions!! 

COLLAB platforms of livesmatter communities to mediate public and private -poorest village mothers empowering end of poverty    5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5  5.6


4 livelihood edu for all 

4.1  4.2  4.3  4.4  4.5 4.6


3 last mile health services  3.1 3,2  3.3  3.4   3.5   3.6


last mile nutrition  2.1   2.2   2.3   2.4  2.5  2,6


banking for all workers  1.1  1.2  1.3   1.4   1.5   1.6


NEWS FROM LIBRARY NORMAN MACRAE -latest publication 2021 translation into japanese biography of von neumann:

Below: neat German catalogue (about half of dad's signed works) but expensive  -interesting to see how Germans selected the parts  they like over time: eg omitted 1962 Consider Japan The Economist 

feel free to ask if free versions are available 

0 The coming entrepreneurial revolution : a survey Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 261 (1976), pp. 41-65 cited 105 

 Macrae,Norman -1976
cited 21
2 The London Capital Market : its structure, strains and management Macrae, Norman - 1955
 Macrae,Norman - 1963  
Macrae, Norman - In: IPA review / Institute of PublicAffairs 25 (1971) 3, pp. 67-72  
 Macrae, Norman - The Economist 257 (1975), pp. 1-44 
6 The future of international business Macrae, Norman - In: Transnational corporations and world order : readings …, (pp. 373-385). 1979 >
7 Future U.S. growth and leadershipMacrae, Norman - In: FutureQuest : new views of economic growth, (pp. 49-60). 1977 Check Google Scholar | 
Future U.S. growth and leadership assessed from abroad Macrae, Norman - In: Prospects for growth : changing expectations for the future, (pp. 127-140). 1977 Check Google Scholar | 
9Entrepreneurial Revolution - next capitalism: in hi-tech left=right=center; The Economist 1976
 9bis Into entrepreneurial socialism Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 286 (1983), pp. 23-29 
10 Do We Want a Fat, Corrupt Russia or a Thin, Dangerous One?
N Macrae - Worldview, 1981 - cambridge.org
… Even if Japan scales up efforts in military defense after such clarification, Japan's defense
spending is estimated to remain within 2 per cent of its GNP. Serious consideration should be
given to the fact that realization of new defense policies and military buildup in Japan is 
 11 Must Japan slow? : a survey Macrae, Norman -  The Economist 274 (1980), pp. 1-42 
12 No Christ on the Andes : an economic survey of Latin America by the Economist
 
13Oh, Brazil : a survey Macrae, Norman - The Economist 272 (1979), pp. 1-22 
14To let? : a study of the expedient pledge on rents included in the Conservative election manifesto in Oct., 1959 Macrae, Norman - 1960  
 15 Toward monetary stability : an evolutionary tale of a snake and an emu
Macrae, Norman -In: European community (1978), pp. 3-6
16 Whatever happened to British planning? Macrae, Norman - CapitalismToday, (pp. 140-148). 1971 Check Google Scholar | 
  Macrae, Norman - In: Kapitalismus heute, (pp. 191-204). 1974
18 How the EEC makes decisions MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972 Check Google Scholar | 
Macrae, Norman - 1972
20 The London Capital Market : Its structure, strains and management Macrae, Norman - 1955
 21 The coming revolution in communications and its implications for business Macrae, Norman - 1978
 22 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions
Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168
Full text | 
23a 
Homes for the people
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1967
Check Google Scholar
 The risen sun : Japan ; a survey by the Economist Macrae, Norman - In: The economist 223 (1967), pp. 1-32,1-29 Check full text access | 
MacFarquhar, Emily; Beedham, Brian; Macrae, Norman - The Economist 265 (1977), pp. 13-42
27 FIRST: - Heresies - Russia's economy is rotten to the core. The West should concentrate on exploiting profitable opportunities to improve it, not on supporting particular politicia...
28 The Hobart century : publ. by the Institute of Economic Affairs
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - 1984
Check Google Scholar 
29 REINVENTING SOCIETY
Macrae, Norman - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 14 (1994) 3, pp. 38-39
30  How the EEC makes decisions
Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The Atlantic community quarterly 8 (1970) 3, pp. 363-371 and in
How the EEC makes decisions
MacRae, Norman - In: Readings in international business, (pp. 193-200). 1972
31The green bay tree
South Africa Macrae, Norman Alastair Duncan - In: The economist 227 (1968), pp. 9-46
32 A longer-term perspective on international stability : thirteen propositions
Macrae, Norman; Bjøl, Erling - In: Nationaløkonomisk tidsskrift 114 (1976) 1, pp. 158-168

. we scots are less than 4/1000 of the worlds and 3/4 are Diaspora - immigrants in others countries. Since 2008 I have been celebrating Bangladesh Women Empowerment solutions wth NY graduates. Now I want to host love each others events in new york starting this week with hong kong-contact me if we can celebrate anoither countries winm-wins with new yorkers

mapping OTHER ECONOMIES:

50 SMALLEST ISLAND NATIONS

TWO Macroeconomies FROM SIXTH OF PEOPLE WHO ARE WHITE & war-prone

ADemocratic

Russian

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From 60%+ people =Asian Supercity (60TH YEAR OF ECONOMIST REPORTING - SEE CONSIDER JAPAN1962)

Far South - eg African, Latin Am, Australasia

Earth's other economies : Arctic, Antarctic, Dessert, Rainforest

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In addition to how the 5 primary sdgs1-5 are gravitated we see 6 transformation factors as most critical to sustainability of 2020-2025-2030

Xfactors to 2030 Xclimate XAI Xinfra Xyouth Wwomen Xpoor chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk (scot currently  in washington DC)- in 1984 i co-authored 2025 report with dad norman.

Asia Rising Surveys

  • 1962 Consider Japan: 1967 Japan Rising part 2.1
    • 7 May 1977 survey of Two Billion People- Asia
    • 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075 1977 survey China

  • The Economist.  Can we help peoples of Russia 1963..


    The Economist. what do Latin Americans need  1965.

     
    The Economist. Saturday, has washington dc lost happiness for ever? 1969.

Entrepreneurial Revolution -would endgame of one 40-year generations of applying Industrial Revolution 3,4 lead to sustainability of extinction

1972's Next 40 Years ;1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now

  • What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975
  • (1984 book 2025 vreport on net generation 3 billion job creation) ...translated in different languages to 1993's Sweden's new vikings
  • 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians
  • 1996 oxford union debate- why political systems can adapt ahead of time to sustainability changes millennials will encounter
  • biography of von neumann in English and Japanese

The Economist had been founded   in 1843" marking one of 6 exponential timeframes "Future Histores"

IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADAMSMITH.app :

we offer worldwide mapping view points from

1 2 now to 2025-30

and these viewpoints:

40 years ago -early 1980s when we first framed 2025 report;

from 1960s when 100 times more tech per decade was due to compound industrial revolutions 3,4 

1945 birth of UN

1843 when the economist was founded

1760s - adam smithian 2 views : last of pre-engineering era; first 16 years of engineering ra including america's declaration of independence- in essence this meant that to 1914 continental scaling of engineeriing would be separate new world <.old world

conomistwomen.com

IF we 8 billion earthlings of the 2020s are to celebrate collaboration escapes from extinction, the knowhow of the billion asian poorest women networks will be invaluable -

in mathematically connected ways so will the stories of diaspora scots and the greatest mathematicians ever home schooled -central european jewish teens who emigrated eg Neumann , Einstein ... to USA 2nd quarter of the 20th century; it is on such diversity that entrepreneurial revolution diaries have been shaped 

EconomistPOOR.com : Dad was born in the USSR in 1923 - his dad served in British Embassies. Dad's curiosity enjoyed the opposite of a standard examined education. From 11+ Norman observed results of domination of humans by mad white men - Stalin from being in British Embassy in Moscow to 1936; Hitler in Embassy of last Adriatic port used by Jews to escape Hitler. Then dad spent his last days as a teen in allied bomber command navigating airplanes stationed at modernday Myanmar. Surviving thanks to the Americas dad was in Keynes last class where he was taught that only a handful of system designers control what futures are possible. EconomistScotland.com AbedMooc.com

To help mediate such, question every world eventwith optimistic rationalism, my father's 2000 articles at The Economist interpret all sorts of future spins. After his 15th year he was permitted one signed survey a year. In the mid 1950s he had met John Von Neumann whom he become biographer to , and was the only journalist at Messina's's birth of EU. == If you only have time for one download this one page tour of COLLABorations composed by Fazle Abed and networked by billion poorest village women offers clues to sustainability from the ground up like no white ruler has ever felt or morally audited. by London Scot James Wilson. Could Queen Victoria change empire fro slavemaking to commonwealth? Some say Victoria liked the challenge James set her, others that she gave him a poison pill assignment. Thus James arrived in Calcutta 1860 with the Queens permission to charter a bank by and for Indian people. Within 9 months he died of diarrhea. 75 years later Calcutta was where the Young Fazle Abed grew up - his family accounted for some of the biggest traders. Only to be partitioned back at age 11 to his family's home region in the far north east of what had been British Raj India but was now to be ruled by Pakistan for 25 years. Age 18 Abed made the trek to Glasgow University to study naval engineering.

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  • 9 Africa
  • 10 Latin Am /Carib
  • 11 Arctic Circle
  • 12 UN

1943 marked centenary autobio of The Economist and my teenage dad Norman prepping to be navigator allied bomber command Burma Campaign -thanks to US dad survived, finished in last class of Keynes. before starting 5 decades at The Economist; after 15 years he was allowed to sign one survey a year starting in 1962 with the scoop that Japan (Korea S, Taiwan soon hk singapore) had found development mp0de;s for all Asian to rise. Rural Keynes could end village poverty & starvation; supercity win-win trades could celebrate Neumanns gift of 100 times more tech per decade (see macrae bio of von neumann)

Since 1960 the legacy of von neumann means ever decade multiplies 100 times more micro-technology- an unprecedented time for better or worse of all earthdwellers; 2025 timelined and mapped innovation exponentials - education, health, go green etc - (opportunities threats) to celebrating sustainability generation by 2025; dad parted from earth 2010; since then 2 journals by adam smith scholars out of Glasgow where engines began in 1760- Social Business; New Economics have invited academic worlds and young graduates to question where the human race is going - after 30 business trips to wealthier parts of Asia, through 2010s I have mainly sherpa's young journalist to Bangladesh - we are filing 50 years of cases on women empowerment at these web sites AbedMOOC.com FazleAbed.com EconomistPoor.com EconomistUN.com WorldRecordjobs.com Economistwomen.com Economistyouth.com EconomistDiary.com UNsummitfuture.com - in my view how a billion asian women linked together to end extreme poverty across continental asia is the greatest and happiest miracle anyone can take notes on - please note the rest of this column does not reflect my current maps of how or where the younger half of the world need to linkin to be the first sdg generation......its more like an old scrap book

 how do humans design futures?-in the 2020s decade of the sdgs – this question has never had more urgency. to be or not to be/ – ref to lessons of deming or keynes, or glasgow university alumni smith and 200 years of hi-trust economics mapmaking later fazle abed - we now know how-a man made system is defined by one goal uniting generations- a system multiplies connected peoples work and demands either accelerating progress to its goal or collapsing - sir fazle abed died dec 2020 - so who are his most active scholars climate adaptability where cop26 november will be a great chance to renuite with 260 years of adam smith and james watts purposes t end poverty-specifically we interpret sdg 1 as meaning next girl or boy born has fair chance at free happy an productive life as we seek to make any community a child is born into a thriving space to grow up between discover of new worlds in 1500 and 1945 systems got worse and worse on the goal eg processes like slavery emerged- and ultimately the world was designed around a handful of big empires and often only the most powerful men in those empires. 4 amazing human-tech systems were invented to start massive use by 1960 borlaug agriculture and related solutions every poorest village (2/3people still had no access to electricity) could action learn person to person- deming engineering whose goal was zero defects by helping workers humanize machines- this could even allowed thousands of small suppliers to be best at one part in machines assembled from all those parts) – although americans invented these solution asia most needed them and joyfully became world class at them- up to 2 billion people were helped to end poverty through sharing this knowhow- unlike consuming up things actionable knowhow multiplies value in use when it links through every community that needs it the other two technologies space and media and satellite telecoms, and digital analytic power looked promising- by 1965 alumni of moore promised to multiply 100 fold efficiency of these core tech each decade to 2030- that would be a trillion tmes moore than was needed to land on the moon in 1960s. you might think this tech could improve race to end poverty- and initially it did but by 1990 it was designed around the long term goal of making 10 men richer than 40% poorest- these men also got involved in complex vested interests so that the vast majority of politicians in brussels and dc backed the big get bigger - often they used fake media to hide what they were doing to climate and other stuff that a world trebling in population size d\ - we the 3 generations children parents grandparents have until 2030 to design new system orbits gravitated around goal 1 and navigating the un's other 17 goals do you want to help/ 8 cities we spend most time helping students exchange sustainability solutions 2018-2019 BR0 Beijing Hangzhou: 

Girls world maps begin at B01 good news reporting with fazleabed.com  valuetrue.com and womenuni.com

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online library of norman macrae--

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MA1 AliBaba TaoBao

Ma 2 Ali Financial

Ma10.1 DT and ODPS

  • 1972's Next 40 Years ;
  • 1976's Coming Entrepreneurial Revolution; 12 week leaders debate
  • 1982's We're All Intrapreneurial Now
  • What will human race produce in 20th C Q4? - Jan 1975
  • (1984 book on net generation 3 billion job creation) ...
  • 1991 Survey looking forward to The End of Politicians
  • 1975 Asian Pacific Century 1975-2075
  • 1977 survey China
  • first of 4 hemisphere remembrance parties- The Economist Boardroom

health catalogue; energy catalogue

Keynes: 2025now - jobs Creating Gen

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how poorest women in world build

A01 BRAC health system,

A02 BRAC education system,

A03 BRAC banking system

K01 Twin Health System - Haiti& Boston

Past events EconomistDiary.com

include 15th annual spring collaboration cafe new york - 2022 was withsister city hong kong designers of metaverse for beeings.app

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