2010s The Most Exciting Decade

This proposed book invites worldwide youth –and parents - to celebrate the possibilities of the first book (published 1984) on The Net Generation and its Death of Distance Games. When Norman Macrae died in the summer of 2010 his 40-year career of transparent  microeconomic analysis and futures mapmaking at The Economist converged on this decade’s purpose – to be the time when human beings united in the great race back to sustainability futures.

 As co-authors of Norman’s 1984 maps and goals for the start of the 3^rd millennium, we are curious enough about systems theory – and such practice-led disciplines as microbiology, sociology, technology, media and professional rulemaking – to appreciate that the other main scenario of how humanity goes global is dominated by Orwell’s Big Brothers. We side with Norman’s optimistic view that few parents and leaders truly wish the Big Brother destination on our children and children’s children

This book re-examines why Norman’s main maps on the microeconomic joys of peace, clean energy, ending poverty, joyful education, and entrepreneurial new job creation are not happening yet, and what needs to be changed to get back on track to exciting 2010s

Norman spent his last 3 years chatting to microentrepreneuruial revolutionary leaders in Bangladesh and their alumni networks who had evolved poverty ending solutions from safe banking as this new nation's gift to the world, and  the miracle of bringing mobile telecomputing and clean energy to rural villages started up in 1996. His last articles explain why celebrating the most exciting goals of youthful Bangladesh is as vital to our race’s future history as his 1962 invitation to celebrate Japan’s world leadership at that time.

By exploring how hundreds of thousands of poorest villager hubs have started partnering the most purposeful leaders of the most resourced organisations in the world, we can see how all the solutions to a sustainability planet are out there- waiting for the joy of youth to celebrate and practice them. But will we also dare to see that there is a mathematical error to correct if the way macroeconomics and business models rule the world is to be free to value sustainability’s rising exponentials more than those who models are accidentally or knowingly built to bubble up so that ever fewer speculators gain at the expense of communities and youth everywhere?

Now is the time to resolve the core question raised through alumni of Adam Smith's quarter of a millennium of social interactions - how do we empower the entrepreneurial purpose of economics to wholly and truly unite nations?

To be or not to be - that is the question which enough parents collaboratively linked in to the future of our worldwide can let IcT (which Norman's 1984 language called telecommuting and telecomputing) be open enough to encourage youth to ask and answer.

Footnote

The book also includes clues of future correspondents, which emerged from 1973 experiments on internets in education as part of UK's National Development Project,  on how to break through 10 forbidden exercises -eh how to search human purpose of information communications technology  and the 12 grades of using email to bring down degrees of separation on life-shaping knowhow