🔮 Nations vs cities; AI and text; Vaclav Smil & energy; polymaths & failure++ #246

Decarbonising our civilization

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I’m exploring how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies and other trends. 

💌 All members can join me next week in discussing job transitions under various automation scenarios with Dr Penny Mealy. Penny is an exciting researcher attached to two of my favourite institutions, the Oxford Martin School and the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. I found her work on job transitions particularly fascinating. Read more and RSVP here.

📖 We are beginning to publish full transcripts from my most recent podcast conversations, exclusively for Premium members. The first one is the transcript of my discussion with Tony Blair. Transcripts of older episodes are here (including my conversation with Shoshana Zuboff, and Jürgen Schmidhuber).

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