adam smith

gravitational force multipliers- smith's industrial revolution, moore's post-industrial

history's future changed at glasgow u 1760 when james watt and adam smith were first in world to explore what machines and humans would be to each other; slowly at first but increasingly aggressively empires were won or lost over the next 2 centuries but then history's future started to multiply an order of magnitude of change in human connections every 13 quarters

in 1965 gordon moore became the epicentre of a much faster era of global changemaking- if you were an alumni or moore or silicon valley branded for those who valued multiplying 100 times more tech analytics every decade being grounded in healthy youth futures - the leland stanford alumni mission - promised to make the early 21st c the most exciting times for elders to invest in youth - to be or not....

youthlivesmatter

while there are different frames for interpreting adam smith -more at smithian.net , because your sub-editor is a diaspora scot, we are most interested in sharing his goal to see youth all over the world make the most of the coming machine age

adam viewed system mapping as aiming to integrate multiple modes such as
morality
effectiveness
cultural
and arguable as someone concerned that man respected nature's evolutionary and diversity systems

consequently adam mapping was relevant in 1760 when his colleague james watt at glasgow u was inventing the steam engine
but also wherever exponential opportunities and risks have been unleashed either by discoveries with a field such as mapping dna in areas of biohealth or more broadly since world war 2

in one sense the root cause of the world wars was adam's hopes had not been realised up to 25% of peoples lives had been developed by machines but vast majority had not

we think its useful to look at 4 rising post industrial revolutions
those we call rura keynes eg borlaug which have prevented poorest vilagers from famine and improved their health enough to raise life expectancy from under 40 to 60s
deming's revolutions in engine quality that ranged from transporation leaps lie bullet trains and container shipping to microelectronic to sme smart manufactring supply chains to supercity architecture
space and all forms of media and mediation incluing today's possibility to universally connect through mobile apps
von neumanns and moores promise to deliver up to  a trillion times more analytic power by 2030 than was needed to code moon landing

adam's search for how can all engine revolutions be shared with people everywhere and leapfroging apply bew tech prefentially for poor is what the scttish school of economics is proudest about- partly because scots are mainly a diaspora nation with more scots living acrossthe hemispheres than on our homeland- indeed because scotlan failed as a nation around 1710 scots were already being administered out of london- 8 days away from glagow by horse- and as perhaps smith foresaw london financing rollout of industrial revolution wasn't about sharing benefits with eg scots who were "thinned" during 1800s