Back in 1984 when my father at The Economist and I wrote the first
death of distance future history we assumed that by now peoples
broadcasters like the BBC would help popularise such league tables and
open sourcing of thousands of vital social projects as you can see from
this half-page excerpt
http://www.normanmacrae.com/netfuture.html#Anchor-Changin-27687
Now that Her Majesty's Treasury has admiited the greatest market
failure of all time and that the compound climate crisis risks require
investment of 1% of GDP to save 20% GDP, it is mathematically clear
that we are near the final tipping point
I have lost confidence that any mass media will start off the
cross-cultural, collaborative and deeply contextualised league table we
need to commune around worldwide , hence I am asking everone I have
ever linked: if they would like to vote or in other ways construct a
league table for sustainability world citizen newtorks http://up200.tv
in time to become an 85th birthday present for my dad
http://futurehistorian.tv in map and book and web formats
league emerges at http://up200.tv
thanks to all, chris macrae us tel 301 881 1655
your ideas are welcome; we began like this: nearly 150 linked in people
who knew our future historians have been studying sustainability crises
of integrating localities into global since 1984 . Our books and
roundtable debriefings, co-weblogs and collaboration cafes have
constantly forecast decade 2005-2015 to be irreversible for whether
humanity sustains all future children or loses them
inviting any linked in person to suggest any linkedin peers who care
about http://up200.tv
asking new people who apply to join to either nominate who they trust
most on our currnet elague of http://up200.tv or who they believe to be
our biggest omission
our ongoing research:
deadline for first full guidebook and map of up200.tv - year of 2008,
my father's 85th birthday year and 60th as a journalist for humanity;
wish that the book could become as popular an annual as Guinness Book
of Records but with all entries as open content for any local
http://guidemakers.net to mix and match world and local nominations
Londoners are piloting 2 world chnagers travel guide brochures to be
available first quarter of 2007 on climate crisis and learning crisis;
do connect with these in any ways you wish from making nomintaions to
helping discuss them with peers; to editing your own version as a pdf ,
part of a web or your own city's first travel guide for citizens to Q&A
this crisis info @worldcitizen.tv