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7 May, 14 tweets, 19 min read
🤩 EXCITING NEWS: I’ve written a book! It arrives in September and is available to pre-order here: azm.io/exponentialbook

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🚀 The book argues that we are entering a new era of human history, the Exponential Age, driven by a wave of transformative, exponential technologies. It explains why this change has come about, what effect it has on economics/politics/society, & what we should do about it.
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💡 The Exponential Age’s hallmark is a dramatic shift in how technologies work - true to the observation by George Orwell that “every now and again something happens - ultimately traceable to changes in industrial technique - and the whole spirit of life changes.”
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🤖🧬⚡️🏭 Today four major areas of technology are improving at exponential rates: AI & computing; biology; renewable energy; & manufacturing. Every year they are massively declining in price and increasing in capability (for reasons I outline in the book).
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🏛 Yet our societies are governed by institutions and norms that cannot adjust at this pace - they adapt much more slowly. And so new technologies accelerate away from our society. I call this divergence between technology and society… the exponential gap.
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🌐 The exponential gap is everywhere. It explains the recent emergence of a handful of massive, dominant companies; it upends the relationship between workers and firms…
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🌏 ...it disrupts the balance of economic power between the developed/developing world; it leads to more and new kinds of warfare; and it erodes our existing political institutions, with particularly troubling implications for the future of democracy.
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😁 In the book, I explore each of these areas - examining what effect these amazing technologies are having on our lives. And ultimately I’ll answer the question: what are the principles we need to thrive in the Exponential Age?
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😉 So that’s the book: Exponential in the UK and most of the world & The Exponential Age in the US and Canada. And did I mention that you can pre-order it now – that link again:
azm.io/exponentialbook
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24 Sep 20
Climatetech has emerged as a new frontier for founders wanting to tackle climate change.

Together with @CHerweijer and her team at PwC, we looked at how the sector has been developing over the past seven years.

#climatetech 1/7
Overall CAGR of 84% since 2013-2019, representing a total of $60bn invested in 1200+ #cliimatetech startups.

Last year alone, climate tech investments made 6% of global VC activity in 2019

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23 Sep 20
With lots of people launching e-mail newsletters, I thought I would share the first regular ones I launched.

@TheEconomist's Politics and Business This Week back in 1996. We got them to about 250k subscribers each. 1/3

@cjgbest @hamishmckenzie @CaseyNewton @tomstandage
We had to make sure people new had to type in their email address. Hence the details below.

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The mails took a long time to send, typically at 8-10 hours via the mail relay service used. I would have to call Gordon (the guy who ran it) to check how the process was going. (Their internet connection was busy sending my email.)

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2 Sep 20
Who has created more net economic and social welfare (ie gains minus losses)?

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Who has created more net economic and social welfare (ie gains minus losses)?

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Who has created more net economic and social welfare (ie gains minus losses)?
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20 Jun 20
The Economist is very generous in its assessment of The British governments performance in covid, key points it needed to make ... economist.com/leaders/2020/0…
The research breakthroughs are not driven by this government by independent international science, some locates here.
It doesn’t ask why why @MattHancock didn’t act when Taiwan, Vietnam and Mongolia locked down. The inactus reus is clear. What was his mens rea?
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25 May 20
We've seen the chart on the spike in online sales in the past couple of months.

Looks impressive 1/4 Image
But overall retail sales have collapsed

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Especially in some offline sectors:
notably clothing -50.2%
department stores -25.3%
household goods, -45.4%
fuel -52%

See: ons.gov.uk/businessindust…

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