🔮🧠 Big ideas: Bitcoin, designer babies, the Global south #243++

Tracking computation in AI systems since the 1960s

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I’m exploring how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies and other trends. This week, I’m keeping you on your toes with some bigger ideas. 

Hit heart if you like them.

Thanks to all of you who joined our briefing on the future of cash with Huw van Steenis. Those of you who missed it will have a chance to watch a recording and read the summary.

📆 Next week, EV’s Senior Adviser, Diana Fox Carney will host a briefing with Aldyen Donnelly, co-founder and director of carbon economics at Nori, a startup that brings together agriculture, carbon removal and blockchain technology. Nov 13, 4pm London, 11am New York, 9am San Francisco. I hope you can make it—REGISTER HERE

Dept of the near future

💯 How have free-market economists shaped modern capitalism, and where did they go wrong? These thinkers defined the operating environment of the last fifty years, coincidentally the same time-span as the silicon revolution.…