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.
This week, I asked members to imagine where their favourite breakthrough technology will be in five, ten, twenty plus years. Join the discussion.
🎙️ On Friday, 30 October, 1pm UK time (8am EST; 8pm HKT), I am hosting a live chat with Yale’s Nicholas Christakis whose latest book Apollo’s Arrow looks into the long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. We’ll stream live on Linkedin, YouTube and Twitter.
The near future
🧠🕹️😃 “We’re almost at the point where we have powerful enough algorithms to accelerate scientific discovery itself. And I think in the next ten years there are going to be a lot of major, perhaps Nobel-Prize level type, breakthroughs, in all sorts of domains,” says Demis Hassabis, the founder and CEO of DeepMind, in our conversation. Demis doesn’t do many interviews, so it was a huge honour to…