🔮 The future of media; autonomous weapons; China & Taiwan; haptics, Filecoin, proteins++ #292

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 called one of the most informed observers of large companies, EV reader Matt Stoller, to discuss the implications of the recent Cicilline report, in which US lawmakers try to make sense of, and tackle, Big Tech. Here’s our conversation, open for members.

If you do get into the Big Tech rabbit hole this weekend, read also this FT piece on how the EU is targeting large tech companies.

📈 Is endless economic growth possible? This is what I asked members in the Friday discussion this week. Join the conversation

🎧 📖 We published the transcript of my conversation with Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO. Members can read it here. Listen to the podcast here.

The near future

Future of media (1): Matthew Ball writes a stunning essay on the opportunity for audio media.

(2) Antonio García Martínez on the “twiligh…