🔮 It’ll get worse before it gets worse; Eroom’s Law; supply chain failures; advertising, Einstein++ #266

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. Strong emphasis on the pandemic, for obvious reasons. We’re just getting started with it. Time to be sanguine!

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The near future

☔ The U.S. could see a near-term 24% drop in employment, 17% drop in wages (lower income groups are more impacted by the shutdown), and 22% drop in economic activity as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, say researchers at the Oxford Martin Sc…