🔮 Facial recognition; outskilling; reversing Eroom’s law; network effects, miserable middle-agers, neurons++ #253

ML, better data, and computation is propelling pharma R&D

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 a product manager, territory head, board member, journalist, and run corporate innovation groups. I hope this broad experience helps surface some interesting questions.

A few special notes for this week:

• I asked social psychologist Katy Cook to step in this week and give us her thesis on the psychology of Silicon Valley. This will appear as a special addition to this Sunday’s newsletter in your inboxes just after this email.

• David Runciman and I have a long discussion about the next decade and beyond. You can catch it over at Talking Politics, one of my favourite podcasts. The other half of this discussion will be available on the EV podcast on W…