🔮 Big ideas for 2021; China’s civil-military fusion; Tesla’s infrastructure advantage; the climate decade; Elephant body fat & Hegelian enjoyment ++ #307

🐘Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

ERRATUM: 31/1/2020 15:36: An earlier version of this newsletter featured the graph of Facebook and Bytedance’s revenues where Bytedance data was incorrectly labelled as TikTok. The chart has been corrected.

Members’ updates

• Stonks and shares was the flavour of the week. I explored what happened with EV members in our weekly Friday discussion.

• I outlined approaches to dealing with misinformation of networked media

Dept of the near future

🧠 Everyone should take the time to check out the breakdown of Big Ideas for 2021 by our friends at ARK Invest. (Reg required, worth it.) Of particular interest this year is the opening section on the impact of deep learning. In eight short years, the development of neural networks has ushered us in a new era of Software 2.0. Code written by data is already transforming the market b…