.obviously there's millions of years of work by people at the UN (year 78) and their partners trying to help guterres achieve digital Un2.0 roadmap while his leadership term extends to end of 2026; and many high powered partners - so there's a lot to unpack - we will try and offer bot a simple map and curate all the most relevant documents guterres himself applied and connects over 50 operational branches to - if you can help us improve please rsvp chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk
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Of the 9 dimensions of changing to UN2.0, Global Connectivity ois arguably the simplest and certainly the longest learning curve
although the UN began in 1945 to be headquartered on a space donated to it by New York, it was twinned at birth with geneva's ITU; by 1945 T stood for TELEcommuniactions ; but the ITU's birth goes back to 1865 switzerland when the world decided it did not want 2 or more telegraph systems ; in fact ever since those in tele industries have mainly cooperated in progressing on global connecting commons of telegraphs telephones telexes, television, or pretty much and telecommunications
chris.macrae2yahoo.co.uk writes: I was born in 1951 the year my father started applying possibly the greatest journalistic scoop of all time - he met von neumann at princeton during a year as new york correspondent for the economist and was tole to ask anyone and everyone what to do next with 100 tikmes more tech per decade- von neumann convinced dad that peer mathematicians eg einstein et al had started multiplying 100 time more tech in 1935; most of these maths wizards were devastated thaty the peak of their life was spent on the race to the nuclear bomb which princeton/DC said it had to be; this was why from 1945 neumann was desperate to spend rest of his life (he only had 12 years due to cancer caused by nuclear research) on tech for good- particular parenting computing as a scaleable innovation changing the world every bit as much as engines. electricity or tele- (in fact much more because it interacted with all of them)- but there was another twist- clearly engines up to 1945 had ultimatelky been used more for bad (or zero sum games) than good - neumann was dedicated to edtech being how humans multiply value the ore they app life critical knowhow an opposite dynamic to consuming up things
von neumann wass very specific unless 100 times more tech of the coming decades' engineers gravitated round win-win applications of tech, we will return to what happened at the world wars where a few (in 1930s) mainly 8 most advanced engineering places went to war with each other -less than 12% of world's peoples pulled almost all the rest of us into destruction ; this was a dismal outcome of industrial revolution emerged from glasgow's start up of steam engines in 1760s, accelerated by start of electricity in the 19th century (with telephones another scottish invention by alexander bell, telelevison arguarby by thrird scot Baird). Most dismal of all were world trade maps and monies that left out most of the world's people (colonisation. empires was not about the good of the people in the land they lived; it was about trade extracting from colonies what the most powerul natiosn needed); if we compounded tech from 1945 in win-lose ways then at some stage v neumann and einstein guessed would be the 2020s extinction would start to be irreversible
now not everyone agrees with all of the above but just get out the maps of eg asia in 1945 - almost all its coastlines had been ruled for the benefit of britannia or in the case of china (refusing to accept opium as a currency shutdown from participating in world trade for a century which aslo led to china being defenceless to japan which had advanced its engineering and had started to be as greedy an empire over asia as the british had been at their most 19th c rampant
so as well as ITU's experience of global connectivity going back to 1965; networks of v neumann have linked =in round tech for good since 1951; with academic ai twins -one facing pacific coast out of stanford; one factng atalantic out of mit celebrating his leagcy from 18=960; also president kennedy was the one and only us president who joyfully set a decade ahead goals to advance younger americans:
moon race - which was also to creatte satellite communicatuons - the first time a global sports tv broadcast was made- tokyo olympics 1964- this is partly how 3 nations in the far east that looked in dreadful condition - the nuclear bombed japan; kore south and taiwan had once americans had offered them a peace umbrella designed asian rising models which everyone who accessed the pacific coast might win-win around
again not everyone agrees- but simply look at growth between 1945-1975 of japan, south korea, taiwan, hong kong and singapore -arguably the greatest economic miracles seen in any 3 decade period to that date- its intersting to understand what sort of tech japan, korea and taiwan advanced
they all gained from advances in mechanical diggers etc so that huge cities could be quickly developed; the japanase led most of this engineering learning particularly from quality movements of deming; the japanese made better engines for eg cars which koreans were soon to copied; the japanese advanced minutarision of electronics; gordon moore's law famous commitment to 100 times more silicon chip power per decade from 1965 resulted because a japanese calculating form gave intel's largest ever odrer - and rather than become over dependent on one company intel invent programable chips; nothing needed quality (zero errors in production more than chips) tha'ts where from mid 1980s taiwan (well a chinese mad educated in usa returning to what was still the main chinese [seaking entreperenur hub) seized a world leading advantage - to this day it may manufacture more than half of chips ...Founded in Taiwan in 1987 by Morris Chang, TSMC was the world's first dedicated semiconductor foundry and has long been the leading company in its field.https://www.google.com/search?q=chinese+maurice+chang
ASIA RISING from 1950s: something else happened to chnage economics of trade and sme supply chain networks- containersisation made docking and undocking at least 10 times more economical - suddenly sme supply chains (if you had superports located around a \continental coastline much less costly to connect overseas than to develop overland within one nation (and thats even with japan doing its best with supertrains something the west regarded as not invented here)
lots of win-wins to play with: better calculating better building - all these sorts pof dynmaics compoiunded together with the asian model of continuous inprovement insiting that every year the consumer/society must gain from advance of quality knowledge - NB how different Asians tech leaps in capitalism from the dismal media/ internet models of the west's last 20 years which hook people to a free subscription then monololy designed in compound cost way beyond any quality gain-
in any event . when we look a t neumann's immediate legacy: what happened all the way down the north east coast of asia below japan is extraordinary enetrerenurship- no surpisise thar after 110 yeras of not particupating in world class markets the chiense wanted to join in from 1968 on; and given the reparations japan consciously believed it owed the whole region , most of japan's engineering advances were open sourced to china from the 1970s onward- 100 time deeper research of this than anyone else is authored by the late great ezra vogel; i declare it as a human right to learn what good happened through which peoples in history whether or not their nations most powerful people like each other in 2020s;
indeed if you celebrate innovation for humanity NB even the telecoms satellite would have been delayed without the efforts of the russian korolev - what I really want to say is humanity's greatest inventions almost always come from a small number of individuals - and it makes no sense to me not to learn how & what they did in context just becauase some leaders (trump and putin to mention two) seem to hate nearly 99% of peoples, and quite frankly living in dc I think trump hated most os we the peoples in USA but whether he did or he didnt -he didnyt know the truth if it met him in the street- and no american leader has ever tried to block so many innvation worldwide youth needed most in this last chance era fpor our spciess -
that the un2.0 game is much harder to put together by 2026 than if anyone else had led usa seems stochastically as near as certainty as statisticians can get ) ... the good news is if we the peoples spreadd love of children the world over can likely save humanity from meltdopwn if guided by people like guterres as his UN2.0 roadmapping moderates connections for advancement of every god that humans be- all of us alive in the 2020s could yet celebarte un2.0 as greatest avchievement of human intel web assisted by AI