🔮 Apple search; post-office; tech splits; vaccines, brain implants & anime++ #285

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: are we in a new bubble? The thread is worth a read.

The near future

🍎 Is Apple close to launching its own search engine? Honestly a bit speculative. Google pays Apple north of $7bn per annum to be the default search engine on iOS, which in turn makes the search firm $25bn in revenues.

💯 How close are we to automating mathematical reasoning? Lovely essay.

🛎️ The one essay you should read about TikTok; the company’s impact is closely wedded to its successful breakthrough of previously impenetrable cultural walls. Also interesting: TikTok could turn Walmart into an advertising powerhouse.

🏢 The office as we know it is dead. According to a survey by KPMG, more than two-thirds of large company CEOs plan to downsize their office space. Pinterest paid an $89m cancellation fee to get out of a n…