🔮 Data victories; surveillance; UBI; mainstream NFTs; music in empty malls & animal intelligence ++ #312

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.

🎓 Cracking member’s discussion on “What next for the University?”

🎧 Aurora’s Chris Urmson and I had a super discussion on the state of the autonomous vehicle industry.

Dept of the near future

💾 Encouraging news in the world of the consumer data economy. Google will stop selling ads based on browsing data across websites. You are free to roam the web in peace. Google’s decision might be the start of something larger. Ken Glueck, an executive vice-president at Oracle, published a clear articulation of why consumers need better data control. Consumers, Glueck writes, are “shamefully under-compensated for the data they create as they go about their daily life”. He follows this proclamation with a 12-point program to restore balance, including points about the need for an opt-in approach to data protection (as opposed…