š® Europe rises; the self-employed; natural rights; patriarchy & a planet that shouldnāt exist ++ #352
Hi, Iām 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.
Blockchain is one of these technologies, of course. I will be dissecting the rise of Web3 in a series of essays for members of Exponential View in the coming weeks. In the first edition in the series, I tackle Web3 as an evolution of technology platforms ā one that not only challenges us technically, but brings into question what the future could look like (and how it could be better).
Dept of near future
State of Europe
šŖšŗ āThe returns from European venture capital investments have exceeded those from similar investments in the US in every time period for the past two decadesā, according to Atomicoās annual state of the industry. European venture capital is on track to exceed $120bn in total investment this year. The combined total for 2018, 2019 and 2020 was $106bn.
There is a lot to parse in the report. One indiā¦