main questions this curriculum seeks to raise & make transpoarent:
to empower or to power over people
which nations succeeded in empowering people with electricty (1.0)
will all humans succeed in empowering people with AI (electricity 2.0)
advanced question - how does electricity 1.0 & 2.0 conne t with von neumanns number 1 question for journalists from 1945 what to do with 100 times more tech every decade
I had always thought that what made usa the most successful nation ever seen (during its second century, and potentially beyond) was continental scaling connecting electricity for everyone- this article corrects that assumption ; it explains the heroic efforts of roosevelt as one of america's few leaders of electricty for all the people https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/rural-electrification
To this day this article is political dynamite - if you are not aware ofwho/how america got electricity you will believe all sorts of fake stories about america being supoerior on human rights and other countries unfair competition
countries that share electricity with all leap ahead; historically a huge problem has been scaling electricity across a narrow island or a city is easily afforded; doing this on a continental scale wasnt done anywhere until turn of millennium china
however even if a whole nation has access to electricity its not obvious where eg media is used to power over or empower everyone
when technologists call artificial intelligence the new electricity we should hope they mean not only access for all but empowering win-win games among all - see www.sdgmetaverseprize.org - where all the last challenges of minimum equality of all human beings have become our species' youth's last chance to celebrate.
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