🔮 Computing the economy; disrupting cows; AirPods; Indian startups and hillbilly VC++ #252

Can we use technology to plan our economies?

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I am exploring how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies and other trends. I convene Exponential View to help us explore these topics. In my twenty-five years in the tech industry, I’ve founded several companies and invested in more than two dozen. I’ve worked as product manager, territory head, board member, journalist, regulator and run corporate innovation groups. I hope this broad experience helps surface some interesting questions. 

We have two special events coming up for EV members in January.

💌 Join me and other EV members next week at the State of the Exponential briefing with Digital Hub Asia researcher, Dev Lewis, as we go beyond the mainstream reporting about the citizen scoring programs in China, and learn more about the nuances of different systems, their implementation and impact. Read more and RSVP here.

🎫 In two weeks, I’ll be sitting down for a conversation about technology and reputat…