🔮🎄 Apple’s car; Chinese antitrust; AI without rules; the history of the asterisk & ultra-high voltage ++ #302

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.

🎧 In the last podcast conversation of 2020, I got together with sci-fi author and activist Cory Doctorow. In this first segment of our two-part discussion, we explore optimism in light of everything that happened this year. The guiding question we discuss is: can we deploy the pandemic mindset to solve climate change? 

Dept of the near future

🚙 Apple has been sitting on plans and grand designs for its own vehicle for at least a decade. We could see an Apple car on the market by 2024. Apple’s track record on supply chain reliability and the ultimate delivery of products to market will be a major challenge for Tesla to match. There’s a lot happening with this story: conflicting reports that Apple is planning to release the car more than two years ahead of schedule, and even questions about whether it will be a huma…