🔮 Facebook; protests; micromobility; cliodynamics, Thermanins and Iceland++ #273

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—and, of course, Covid-19.

The near future

This week discussion is dominated by events in the US. I’ve tackled these in Dept of Facebook and Dept of Protests below.

🚴🏼‍♀️ How will Covid-19 impact shared mobility? A decent analysis argues that the industry could “see a long-term market expansion as it picks up the slack from declines in public transportation ridership, especially among urban areas in Europe and Asia”. Micromobility could also “play an important role in helping cities incorporate social distancing practices for commuters, while also solving existing issues related to congestion and emissions.” 

🧬 The inflated promise of genomic medicine. Genetic research was supposed to revolutionise medicine and the way we treat the human body. But now it’s become obvious now that genetics may not be the right way to u…