fazle abed

 

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fazle abed developed the most complete 50 year resolution of the economist's 1970 challenge- for millennials to be 21st c sustainability geeration bottom-up constitution models world be needed value multiplying win-win small enterprise networks not big corporate extractors, servant leadership community gov not big top down gov, deep local trustflow action foundations not bit advocacy charites

bangladesy became the world's lab for 2 innovative partnershi models pop ad pyp - see jim kim's definition of referential option poor - when dsigning parters of public and privatise triagularise by youth and educational transformation

see worldiwde goal 1 women empowerment partners of abed/brac in schools, university, 4 types of financilal model ultra, microf, sme city bank, digital cash for poor

bill gates is ranked near to the west's greatest giver in money and probably the most in money and his and melissa's time

their foundation seems to be extraordinary at two movements- searching out solutions that can scale elsewhere- looking for holes i urgent system challenges- much of vaccine logistics during corona crisis has needed gates connections and ensuring that gavi is trusted by hundreds of cultures
 

bill gates became one of sir fazle abed's great co-learners from 2005 - bottom up health, and fintech from about 2014

it took gates quite a long time to find these deep solutins to extreme poorest, and it is probable that he was first introduced to abed's solutions by jim kim who had himself spent a lot of time searching for eg bottom up tuberculosis solutions

(when it comes to education solutions. bill gates does not seem to overlap with fazle abeds deepest innovations)

alternatively sir fazle says that one of the first silicon valley people to encourage up of the unique contributions bangladesh could transfer to the world was the wife of steve jobs 

complicated are connections with microsoft ai- while some wonderful ai opportunities could be realised havent heard the gates' talking independently about ai though melinda clearly contributes to some pars of un's understanding of digital cooperation

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turing einstein von neumann 3 mathematicians essential to life on earth

you don't need to be able to do the maths of these 3 greatest of human intellects to be informed by their discoveries; i would go as far as to say in this tech age that any teacher, of 10+ or member of government who isn't informed should consider another job

turing has one huge significance - he proved a particular way in which the human mind will always be ble to innovate what computers cannot- today the analytical capacity of most smart devices may be greater than your brain especially it can be connected to any number of other digital brains

but turing proved that a computer can never know what data its looking at in such senses as it is whole or partial; could data be connected at a more detailed level ; turing also proved why recursion enables humans to improve learning cycle after cycle in a way that computers can never qute match

turing's findings dovetail nicely with einstein's most general finding- einstein proved that when scientific man says there is noting left to innovate he means unless we model interactions at a smaller/deeper level than our measuremnts approximated

einstein alsohad models on exponential consequences which led to his famous letters with gandhi- their gist if the human race is to survive one day all leaders will need to long-term and trustworthy like gandhi

einstein also had comments about western education - why dont we give kids any experience in team work and collaborating which in the 21st century will be far more important than competing and soiloising

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von neumann is one of the most interesting human stories i can imagine - i am biassed my dad norman macrar wrote the bio of von neumann

neuman was born in budapest hungrayin 1903 dying in usa 1957- he spent just under half his life in usa arriving 1931- you can split his american life nto two halves; up to 1945 he became the man america relied on most to develop nuclear; he spent in last 12 years to 1957 doing perhpas 100 years of work- his immediate legacy was the moon race and the programable computer's start up of 2 artificial intel labs- one pacific cast facing out of stanford the other atlantic coast facing out of mit

when nearly 200 nations met at the san francisco opera house to give birth to the united nations in 1945 the chances for species survival looked poor; by 1957 von neumann had linked together tech that gave humans hope all over the world