Saturday, March 1, 2025


NEUMANN’S INTELLIGENCE GAMES - HUMANITY’s LAST CHOICES?

European Spring needs to happen in 2025 if there is to be anything transparently left of European Data Sovereignty.

AS foreseen www.economistdiary.com/1984, This is not about Brussels regulating; Human intelligence era. Today’s greatest game humans can play is about educational & healthy (mind/body) transformation: communities collaborating round greatest engineering breakthroughs relevant to millennials becoming the first renewable generation instead of the last one that was free to end all the bad things Europe ever historically spiraled.

Worldwide learning needs to be actionable and locally world-deep; life critical knowhow needs to flow without borders. Nature’s foundation model/maps integrate the planet’s gifts we access on earth playing very deep interaction and borderless games -think covid of chaos caused if we don’t unite safety out of every gps

www.2025report.com last edition (in press) traces “some” answers to Von Neumann’s ultimate question - could intelligence 1950-2025 exponentially unite humanity? - the best 8 billion brainworkers’ lives could be.?

This intergenerational genre began 40-year prognoses with Economist 1982 survey: why not Silicon Valley everywhere? This was informed by a then newish network “digital-centric venture capitalists’ like Anne & John Doerr (who have by now contributed almost half a century of Stanford-valley connoting), and was published in book form 2025 Report by myself and dad www.normanmacrae.ning.com for a decade mapping back what intelligence futures could be accelerated by connecting what tech and community advances. Dad’s first job as a teenager was navigator allied bomber command Burma which he saw as least productive job ever. Servicing war he was hired by the Economist to intern with von Neumann1951 to see what engineering futures valued that economists, policy and media men would not know about from any other source. Dad was surprised to9 be told that he should map back from start of 21st C 3 waves of million times more tech connecting people computationally, media wise, data wise

We say ‘some” answers - this is a game where your nomination of players to celebrate connecting what we haven’t seen is potentially world saving

2020s can be decade when, supported by AI agency, everyone’s intelligence doubles but:

In today’s hyperconnected world, intelligence is more about solving what knowhow you & yours have never previously had chance to see exists and implement, than examining your separate quotient.

Let’s preview opportunities to celebrate intelligence advances) the 7 decades since 1955 starting with 1955-1965.

Although 3 generations apart Neumann Einstein-Turing (NET) disappeared suddenly in mid 1950s. Neumann’s “Computer and the Brain” -scribbled from Bethesda’s Naval Hospital 1956 - represented their last notes in 1956 - its very different from the infamous academic summit Dartmouth summer 1956 where some claim McCarthy coined AI.

1905 E=MCSQUARED made the great work of the NET into most hated & wanted of brains

The greatest engineering/maths gen the world had so far seen, THE NET lived through period of being most hated & wanted of intellects. Einstein desperately tried to host transnational intellectual; cooperation meetings out of Switzerland 1920 (which somehow became Paris-based UNESCO) by 1950s. Switzerland had since nid 1860s been where the world benchmark (engineered/artificial) standards of the 2 late 19rh great engineering inventions - telecoms and electricity. The NET loved neural network algorithms; Dartmouth did ask why.

By 1930 Neumann was first to emigrate to Princeton as safe space beyond Hitler’s reach. Einstein joined 1932. Turing only spent one year in Princeton - the last before world war 2. But enough for Von Neumann to become desperate about seeking to spend his life on coding & computing (Turing’s compass) - a world of good beyond being the lead maths brain of atom bomb races. Today’s legacy of quintillion times more tech is an innovation he only began to be give birth to during the last 10 years of his life. http://neumann.ning.com

What however McCarthy did do is twin intelligence labs MIT & Stanford just in time for west coast itself to be one of the twin epicentres of innovating the million-fold tech advance of Moore’s Law: that 100-fold multiplier each decade 65-75-85-95. Please note 2 dynamics of 65-85. The power of chips was not primarily used to generate mass access to computing. Japan Korea Taiwan HK Singapore were main customers of chips - microelectronics. These countries valued engineer in designing severities, win-win SME supply chains, container shipping, supercity trains (undergrounds & bullet trainms0.

Between 1962 & 1977 surveys on The Economist reviewed which people’s nations understood -celebrated engineers applying Moore’s Law to Neumann’s game - at least ¾ people’s nations and ¾ land resources are mapped. The first 3 place leaders to value this were JFK, and the UK and Japan Royal Families. At the Tokyo Olympics of 1964 Prince Charles & Japan Emperor family also witnessed the first global satellite broadcast. Pacific coast people - Asia’s far east and US far west connected Moore’s law’s intelligence goods; East coast USA & EU did not.

There is no evidence that Bill Gates in seizing the software platform of PC’s knew he was in middle of 100 times more change 1984-1994. There is evidence that Steve Jobs knew but wasn’t fully supported (being thrown out of Apple before Apple 2.0). Interestingly Taiwan seems to have become the greatest diaspora investors ever and choice of Maurice Chang AI Foundry as its peoples own big bet was probably the greatest single bet accelerating tech 20 million people have ever made because it connected the last multipliers of Moore’s Millon fold tech wave with satellites mobilizing data clouds and advancing computing 2.0 (by 1993 the Taiwanese Americans and Stanford alumni Jensen Hoang, Mr & Mrs Jerry Yang, Ms Clara Wu Tsia twinned future of all stanfird alumni and all Taiwanese people and probably all 8 billion of our brain’s opportunities to celebrate millennials regenerating humanity

With this opening- part 2 of 2025report will look at what happened when instead of coding 0,1 (binary) computer 2,0 coded pixels and all 5 senses humans use, and deep data analyses finally related to einstein’s 1905 puzzles and instead of big computers following one top-down set of commands everyone’s invited to game intelligence together.