Fall for the Book: The Exponential Age: Big Tech and Us

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 11:00 AM EDT
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As high-tech innovation moves at a dizzying rate, our world and society is in danger of spinning off its axis. In The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society, entrepreneur Azeem Azhar presents a call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data, offering a much-needed set of policy solutions to problems like political polarization, ballooning inequality, and unchecked corporate power. The result is a wholly new way to think about technology that will transform our approach to the future. Daniel Ek, founder of Spotify says Azhar has a “broad understanding of the exponential ways technology can be used to solve our biggest problems, shape our society, and bridge cultural divides.” 

 

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Azeem Azhar is an entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the founder of Exponential View, the leading newsletter and podcast. Exponential View explores the political economy of the Exponential Age. It reaches more than 200,000 readers around the world. He is also an active startup investor, with investments in AI, work-from-home and climate change. He is on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute and sits on the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Digital Economy & Society, on the board of the Ada Lovelace Institute. Previously, he founded PeerIndex, a big data analytics firm acquired in 2015. He has had senior roles in global media businesses and started his career as a journalist where he was a writer for The Economist and The Guardian. In 2020, he co-authored the State of Climate Tech, a global analysis of venture capital trends in climate change investing, with PwC. His first book, Exponential, which explores the transition to the Exponential Age will be published in autumn of 2021. Find out more at: www.exponentialview.co

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