2025 report - final edition

[chris macrae]

PREVENTING EXTINCTION

8 billion human beings have not yet designed markets and mapped human repationships systems to secure our childrens futures. We are facing wars, plagues and climate destruction among 17 variables curated by the UN.  To go the way of the dodo would compound failures of media, educarion, maths and investment to name but four..

My family and friends and co-workers have been concerned wihb future expoenetials for a long time. My mothers family spent 3 generations in Bombay India intially as the ciy's first pharmacists (Landmark Kemps Corner0; then through life of my grandfather as chief justice who mediated Gandgi for 25 yeras Sir Ken's last job was wrrting up the legalese of India' Indepenence. He was not however briefed that a late stage teh suboncteint with ots quarter oif human beings would be partitioned into three.

My father spent his last days as a teneange navigatir in allied bomber coman, Burma Campaign.Survivale gave him 3 adnatanges: "goofle maps" in his head on imbalances between 4 hemispheres Nortn South East West - news so to speak. Seeking optimistic mentirs- -if he coulkd survise war he found positism in mentirship from Keynes at Cambridge and in his lifelongjob at The Economist where he was intially briefed by Sir Kenneth Croqther who had just edited The Economist's bcentenary auobiography - the failure to dtae of mediatimg end og hunger and poverty 1843-1943. During secondemnet to New York for a year, dad met vion neuamm and was aked would you connect hourvalists with the most valuable scopp ofl all- what good will people unite with 100 tems more etch per decade. 

In a small way i joined in father's survey in its 21nd year from 1972 . From  earning an MA in Statistics at Cambeidge's main maths Lad DAMPTP, my first job was at the UK natioanl development pRoject for Computer Bases learning. Our findings comnveinced me that edtech needed to be a solution to futire gereatiosn chalenges. Father had started to autor Economist surbesy on future histor and Entreperenurial revolution he was very happy to blend fintech edyech and healthech into 3-in-one debates of betetr futures. In 1984 I joined him in publishing 2025 report - an alternative to Orwell's big Brother End game. The coming of web world could be designed to foix hsory's mediation problem with the 2 eras of tele and 3 previous ears without either ele=ctricity or telecommuications

As you can see from sxeince editir Matt Ridlkey's retrosepctive revew we timelined webtech chnages qyite accurately but none of our gialt leaps for society were taken on in the postive ways we had suggested. Soon after farher died in 2010, 4 extrodrinarily fifferent remembarnce events were held. They inform  this books contents

1 Som ee short case stueies written by people whsoe web3 movements excite us most. These offerbencmarks foe what we hope might be community empowered web3 solutions matching very UN chalenge

2 We track how we see systemic creedoms in the way the 17 sgds replaced the old millennails goals - and in particular how a disappointing year 1 review motivated edtech people to make unprecdented insterdisciplary comectionacrsos fdiferent bancjes of teh uN.This is now knows as the 9 transformational pieces of Gurtrers Un2 digital roadmapping. But it also offeres servant leadership transformation possibility for any government that chooses to value regeneration.

3 The first 6 edtech chnagemakers all had clsoe expereiuntail connections with Sir Fazle Abed as had Gutterres. 16 trips to bagladesh stared aroiund my friends than ks to japan ambassadir to Bangladesh inviting fazle abed ti chair 2 dinner barnstorming seeiosn in remeberance of my fathers work and 4th quarter of the half centiry of Abed's partnership platforms. In parciular Abed spent the second hald of his half cebtury designing leapfroding silution with billion pooerst asian vilage meothers. Aftrfer 25 yeras of partnerships in vailages without electricty , his Jpaanese partner in silicon valed offered brac net from 1995 and with solar 21st C womn vilagers were ready to make the greatest leaps for humankind. Abed open brac univesrity in 2001 with the aim of partnersing any universiries female graduates passuonated conecered with sustainbility. WE catalogue th 7 coperations that he had started looking for paryenrs to be his onw legancy as well as a "Mooc" oh all his partnerships which had revolutioned 20th C aid.

4 Fraher had donated funds for 2000 social bsuienss books to be samped to stidenst from 2008-9 subprime generation on. We started an annaul upsate card game world recoidr jobs. If millennaisl and their teacxhers should be aware of alumni knowhow of up to 52 players.who should be included? Of course this is an exploratrory game, where we learn as much from being told who we had so far not represented as having some exciting starting point - eg 2o8-p introdcied staoshi alongside yunus and abed, steve jobs and jeery yang, jack ma as well as those from hisriry like von neumenn eeinstein gandkhi hkeyens florence nightingale maria montessori adma smith st francis.

Here are some grids  explained in our book as offereing 8 biliion beings wanting to connect ssutainability oppoery=tunities to smoothly tranlate knowhow, deep data search and culture reconciliation into common intel be that human or increasing artificial intel curated

UN2 9 point grid

The 8 eras of mediatech with timelines when they expeoentailly went war's wrong way or peace's leap foward.

17 goals stirline grid

The 7 partnership platform woners of Abed's legacy contextaulised within a wider framwork which can be though of as serial development of solultions 17>1.2.3.4>5 but due to how banagldesh had the shortest straw on most of gaols 6-16 (moral demands but not at his time odf death solutions to the work he hoped new university partnershisp would expoeentailly raise0