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🤩 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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And I want to add a few names who really helped inform my thesis including @CarlotaPrzPerez @zavaindar @reidhoffman @CjColclough @mattturck @barneyp @MarietjeSchaake @PaulNemitz @ZymerJosh @ramez @asymco @draecomino @mattocko @pauldaugh @daveg @johnhenderson @ruchowdh ...

... @DianeCoyle1859 @AndersWijkman @IlvesToomas @martintisne @hare_brain @RayEitelPorter @DameWendyDBE @kwerb @JeniT @Nicolas_Colin @doctorow @Vitolae @BrettFrischmann @russellbuckley @BetterCity @nickdavis97 @cape @fredwilson @nauiokaspark ...

@hkanji @rsohoni @ashfontana @cchrysan @albertwenger @adrian_weller @CharlieMuirhead @edvaizey @CarissaVeliz @SamehNWahba @demishassabis @katecrawford @matthewclifford @kaifulee @EricTopol @MLiebreich @MazzucatoM @KlyngeC @BradSmi @jackclarkSF @AndrewYang @billjaneway @vijaypande

and... @sama @j2bryson @CathieDWood @mer__edith @BCAppelbaum @ginasue @ronitA380 @JeffDSachs @scottsantens @auerswald ... thanks!

... and @timoreilly @RSAMatthew @carlykind_ @Giedrimasj @stianwestlake @RobbieStamp42 @stianwestlake @tglocer @buntms