who's 4th industrial revolution who
Alumni of von neumann predicted in the early 1970s that trustworthy economics would cease to exist independent of tech change back in the early 1970s - see eg future histories by dad norman macrae in the economist or peter drucker
in 2010s klaus schwab convenor of world economic forums has made industrial revolution 4 his signature contribution with IR4 hubs in interhemisphere capitals
there remains queries about how/why identify 4 industrial revolutions as opposed to mapping how engines have morphed since glasgow University started up engineering around James Watt and moral market systems designer Adam Smith
I believe the mst transparent way to discuss engines contributions is
IR1 engine power
IR2 engine media eg telegram telephone radio:: tv satellite webbed pc networking, smartphones, convergence of all smart devices whether personal or societal (eg drone)
-these first 2 industrial revolutions ended in world wars (and effectively thats before tc v onwards became massive)- whaT lessons did we learn from mainly 10 white empires plus a few compact mations monoploising use of engines and maps of world trade leaving up to 75% of peoples without access even to electricity grids
it is clear to anyone who reads my father's biographer of von neumann -or 1984's 2025 report on sustainability's expoenental ops and threates- that both indudtrial revolutions 3 and 4 depended on work advanced by von neuman , and the fact that he took it to the stage that 100 times more tech would impact humans every decade 50s through 2020s (this is most commonly accepted by alumni of moores law who rebranded their regional hub as silicon valley from 1972)
von neumann was very concerned with above zero sum games/as was my father and peter drucker's definition of knowledge networking economy- the point to note is that unlike cnsuming up thingd- life saving knowhow multiplies value in application - this is why we suggest that sustainability of our species depends on distinguishing IR3 as celebrating the fusion of above zero-sum and 100 times more tech- from 1972 the remainder of my dad's life work at the economist and elsewhere asked how tech could win-win principally in the 4 primary sdg compasses of 4)education, 3) health, 2)food-agriculture-natural resources, 1) finance
welcome Q&A chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk normanmacrae.net
