You kindly carried an obituary to my father The Economists' Norman Macrae in 2010 https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-norman-macrae-journalist-2442337
I wanted to check with you first in case a short serial on 2023 opportunities common could be mutually beneficial
Glasgow University is planning 265 moral sentiments summit June 2023- kindly codesharing it with what would have been dad's centenary year! Previously, 2010: 3 weeks after dad's death Adam Smith Scholars codeshared dad's remembrance with Muhammad Yunus 70th wish birthday party and this stimulated the University's launch millennials transformation journals new economics and social business. This had followed on a 2008 summit mainly sponsored by Sir Tom Hunter before the subprime crisis resulted in loss of much of his retail world.
For father as a Keynsian as well as Smithian, Tropical Asian women empowerment 2010-1970 reaching up to a billion village mothers and so the bottom quarter of the human pyramid was the greatest economic miracle achieved during his life but not sufficient to prevent extinction - womens rural development was indeed intergenerationally aligned to why 1843 James Wilson started to engage Queen Victoria in going beyond slavemaking empire to commonwealth
ALTERNATIVE BURMESE DAYS
Dad had survived being teenage navigator allied bomber command Burma world war 2 -so friendships across hemispheres and next generations was part of his life's purpose and definition of professional transparency; this was accelerated by meeting Von Neumann Princeton 1951 and agreeing that The Economist would become home of Neumann's survey what goods can humans unite with 100 times more etch per decade (this would ultimately determine whether 2025-1945 was to spiral more humanly than 1945-1865 (ITU tele communications being born 1865 and shaping the region that birthed maths goats Einstein, Neumann .. )
I joined in what was father's 33rd year of Neumann survey in co-authoring 2025 report 1984 - could we redesign media for millennials to be the first sustainability generation Death of a great optimist
Of course the jury is still out on whether eg frameworks changing media and education and tech like the UN's since 2016 will be in time https://www.un.org/techenvoy/content/ongoing-work
However we could argue that media transformation particularly of English mindset is a journalistic responsibility - one that Scotland -and its diaspora networks - can engage in like no other nation from its far north understanding of how humans unite or disunite
Just last week something extraordinary happened in washington dc where my family now mainly lives. In the first annual review of humanising AI with Biden's national task team https://www.ai.gov/nairrtf/ ai as a way of becoming every humans lifelong skills dashboard and personal trainer was presented (the first time this has been fully aligned to our 1984's future history)
The Scotsman would be in an ideal position to assemble interviewees - from the UN or from the extraordinary AI loves humans epicentre that Stanford's networks are sharing https://hai.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/2023-03/Generative_AI_HAI_Perspectives.pdf
I don't know exactly what could be possible; I realise every country in Europe is in current need of a different moral/optimistic leap forward. I am just a maths person completely without political agenda - indeed as early as dad's 1976 http://www.entrepreneurialrevolution.city he tried to start debates on why left versus right needed to be ever less relevant to 21st c being and digital world mediation
I have been privileged myself to go to \Asia 60 times often working for unilever but since dads death 16 times to Bangladesh to follow through his last scoop Sir Fazle Abed as one of the 2 main epicentres of empowering 1 billion women to end poverty. Oddly Abed started not with banking but with taming the killer disease James Wilson had died of in Calcutta 1860- ie diarrhea needing oral rehydration as cure welcome economistdiary.com abedmooc.com,catholicuni.com
In his last decade when I met Abed annually -and most notably his 80th burthday party spring 2016 which became his system change offering to the UN - he was designing university partnerships (a sort of new Rhodes scholars criss crossing everywhere womens ai graduates needed lift off) which had emerged in 2001 from a brainstorming dinner with Mr and Mrs Steve Jobs. So in this still overmanaged world, can artificial intel return common sense (above zero sum goodwill exchanges) valuing integration of every community/diversity- what is the way Scotland not yet a nation at the UN may yet be able to contribute to borderless ai for sustainability?
sincerely chris macrae
+1 240 316 8157
happy to discuss any ideas but currently have next to no funds
