🔮 Micromobility; Good tech, bad tech; Creator economy; mRNA breakthroughs & solar panels ++ #344

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. My book, Exponential (or The Exponential Age in the US and Canada) explores the underlying thesis in detail.

Dept of near future

The micromobility era

🚙 Horace Dediu’s insights on micromobility are second to none, which is hardly surprising because he coined the term. Micromobility Industries just published a speech by Dediu on the ten micromobility commandments. Grab a pen and paper because Dediu delivers a tour de force of insights that is well worth half an hour of your time.

One of his key insights, which we’ve covered many times in the wondermissive, is that the market for miles is skewed. The overwhelming number of trips are short, but we prepare our vehicles for the rare worst-case trip. (The 300-mile one-way-trip, family and suitcases jammed into our car.)

Dediu draws a parallel between the PC era and today’…