Ep. 85: Azeem Azhar on the Exponential Age, Unlimited Companies and Tech Challenges
- By Bilal Hafeez
- 1 min read
Azeem is the creator of Exponential View, a leading platform for in-depth tech analysis. His weekly newsletter is read by 200,000 people from around the world, and his podcast has featured guests including Yuval Noah Harari, Tony Blair and Kate Raworth. A member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council, Azeem contributes to publications including the Financial Times, Wired and the MIT Technology Review. His new book is called Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do. In this podcast we discuss:
- The four technologies driving exponential age
- What’s different between today and previous tech transitions
- How tech companies defy conventional understanding
- Why productivity has been low
- Climate change and productivity
- Understanding US/China/Europe tech rivalry
- Importance of big tech in dealing with cyber risk
- Books that influenced Azeem: Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (Perez) and Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke)
You can follow Azeem on Twitter , sign up to his newsletter here and buy his new book here.
You can read the transcript for this podcast here.
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