Norman Alastair Duncan Macrae CBE (1923 – 11 June 2010)[1] was a British economist, journalist and author, considered by some[who?]
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.
[2][3] 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.
2025 REPORT, their joint future history on death of distance first published in 1984, forecast that 2005–2025 would be humanity's most critical decades, irreversibly impacting sustainability.
The last update of 2025 Report was published in Swedish in 1993 as Den Nye Vikingen[clarification needed]