There is no point journalising economics or policy or science systems without keeping ahead of engineers revolutions (eg replacing animal power from 1760s, -late 1800s connecting peoples with telecoms and electricity, from 1956 opening up AI:  the most extraordinary race to engineer intelligence tools for every millennial to generate with -those who design 30 year long exponential (intergenerational) advance of humans around the world. This hypothesis that Industrial Revolutions lock in what is possible of all human lifetimes of through The Economist's 2nd century of Chartering Human Trust from 1943. We welcome advice on any Economist Intelligence stories we haven't yet linkedin.chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk Current shared resources are webs Economistdiary.com economistjapan.com economistwater.com catholicuni.com - nings normanmacrae neumann bracnet

also 2 linkedin- over 20 years ; over 20 months;  and 2 X's myUNUSlab  and Obamiuni (the naming was a big mistake but no worries)

 EconomistDiary.com The Economist's wartime editor Geoffrey Crowther (also edited centenary autobiography of The Economist 1843-1943. E was founded by London-Scot James Wilson - a statistician who wanted to help queen victoria (and all of London's Royal Societies) change from governing slave-trading empire to commonwealth win-win trades across generations of human development. Victoria came to like James' James support- getting rid of some of worst vested interest maps (eg repeal of corn laws but not before their impact had starved up to quarter of all Irish). James was meticulous on dairy of shipping data. But arguably he did his job too well; Queen Victoria decreed he should go to india that start up that subcontinents own taxation system- while year 1 on state of India went well; during year 2 James died of diarrhea (it took another 112 years before fazle abed and friends innovated oral rehydration )

James and Geoffrey were deep supporters of what Adam Smit actually said, and Keynessan updates written out of Kings College Cambridge at the same time that von Neumann and Turing were there and across the road the Cavendish lab starred Ruttherford, celebrate visit from Lawrence who founded what are ow the US 17 national computer labs stemmed from Berkeley, as well as LI who went on the be tech  grandfather of Taiwan. 

Today nobody in world can understand AI without understanding wht Taiwanese gave humans since 1987...(well that's our dibs anyway)

GEMINI July 2026 adds this 90 year rewind

Gemini: 1930s Computational Big Bang - Immigrant Minds

Mapping of 1930s intellectual migration highlights the exact moments the foundations of modern computation were forged through cross-border collaboration.

Today, while much Western media obsesses on competition between American AI and China AI, the deepest practical experiences since 1950s tech acceleration come from West Coast USA (designers of what’s next)’ Japan, Korea, Taiwan supply chain manufacturers mobilizing massive human impact.