🔮🎂 Chip futures; the global internet; state intervention; elephants, dogs, crows++ #289

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: What is the best way for us to relate to, and seek accountability from, superstar companies? EV readers left me with lots of food for thought, as usual.

The near future

😎 EV reader, Christopher Mims, on why Huang’s Law, named after Nvidia’s CEO, is the new Moore’s Law. It explains why Nvidia acquired British semiconductor and software design company, Arm Holdings. I missed this last week, but it’s worth reading if you haven’t already:

Uses of mobile AI are multiplying, in phones and smart devices ranging from dishwashers to door locks to lightbulbs, as well as the millions of sensors making their way to cities, factories and industrial facilities. And chip designer Arm Holdings—whose patents Apple, among many tech companies large and small, licenses for its iPhone chips—is at the center of …