🔮 Offices; algorithms; green stimuli; dodecahedra, precrime & happy kids++ #286

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. Some of my latest commentary:

• A short history of knowledge technologies

• How the roadmap for self-driving cars has led them up a blind alley

• For startups, relevance matters

This week’s discussion with EV members is about the Facebook government. In the absence of proper regulation, platforms are creating rules to regulate who gets heard. How should Facebook and others decide what their policies ought to be? What is their obligation to tackle disinformation? What are the strengths and weaknesses of these modes of change?

The near future

📋 The hidden “office economy” extends to airlines, coffee chains, mediocre clothes stores and photocopier peddlers. In this excellent essay, EV reader Steve Levine points out that while businesses which depend on white-collar workers are going into freefall, cities do bounce back from the …