🔮 Stripe’s carbon credit; microbes & the post-oil future; the Digital Silk Road; plastics, drones & archaeology ++ #298
Hi, 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.
Earlier this week, I tackled…
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The transcript of my conversation with Mike Zelkind, CEO of a network of indoor vertical farms 80 Acres Farms, is on the website. We discuss the future of food production and how exponential technologies have the poten…