Norman Macrae

Norman Macrae CBE (1923 – 11 June 2010)[1] was a British economist, journalist and author, considered by some to have been one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society. These forecasts mapped back to system designs mediated so that readers and entrepreneurial networks could exponentially calibrate shared alternative scenarios.

Career

Macrae joined The Economist in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the Pacific century, the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there. Not to get bored, Macrae's first ten years in retirement produced the biography of John Von Neumann (the mathematical father of computers and networks), a column for the UK Sunday Times, and a 'Heresy Column' for Fortune. He was the father of mathematician, marketing commentator, and author Chris Macrae. Their joint future history on death of distance in 1984 forecast that 2005–2015 would be humanity's most critical decade irreversibly impacting sustainability.

Honours

Notes

  1. ↑ "The unacknowledged giant". The Economist. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Macrae, Norman. (2000). John von Neumann: the Scientific Genius who Pioneered the Modern Computer, Game Theory, Nuclear Deterence, and Much More, Random House (1992), reprinted by the American Mathematical Society (2008), p. 406.

Books still in print by Norman Macrae

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