🔮 The superorganism; limits of liberalism; China clash; ukuleles, nudists and Victorians++ #264

The world turned upside down.

I’m Azeem Azhar. I explore how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies and other trends. I convene Exponential View to help us understand these topics.

With the Covid-19 pandemic creating sudden shocks across our economies, this is the major force driving change today. Many of the themes Covid-19 is illuminating, from calls for universal basic income to the importance of genomic technologies, rethinking the role of the state, and how to deal well with data, have been explored in my podcast series over the past four years.

🔏 The chances are you are in lockdown. I’d commend you to listen to the show, perhaps all the way back to series one. Each conversation makes for good company as you potter around your home.

The near future

🌍 A global network of over 7.5 billion hyperconnected individuals created the pandemic, and this same network can solve it. A beautiful essay on the superorganism that is humanity. 

🧭 The world turned upsi…