🔮 New rules; Tesla & Apple; massive AI; fake helicopters, throuples & fish++ #277
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.
This week…
I wrote about the geopolitics of technology through the lens of Tiktok in India in this week’s essay.
In our Friday discussion, members have shared what they consider an acceptable level of risk in their daily lives these days. What is it for you?
The near future
🧠The new three Rs of the exponential age: new rules, new rights, new regimes. The UK’s competition authority calls for a new regulatory regime to tackle the market power of Google and Facebook. To their credit, they understand that market power in the exponential age looks different to traditional market power. They recognise the increasing returns to scale of the user base that we’ve articulated regularly in this newsletter. They recommend new rights including greater consumer control of data, mandatory interoperability, and increased third-part…