🔮 DAOs & the future of work; China in 2022; kids in the metaverse & Mars selfies ++ #354

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. I laid out my thesis in my 2021 book, Exponential.

🎙This week on the podcast
This week’s podcast is the second in a special two-part series. In the first episode, I went through some of the biggest technological, scientific and social developments of 2021. In this week’s episode, I look forward, laying out the major themes I think will define 2022 (and the years to come).

Some changes are hurtling down the pike, like the growth of Web 3.0 and the metaverse, while others are rumbling along more slowly, like the unstoppable progress of artificial intelligence.

You can listen to the podcast here or read a full transcript here.

The near future

🇨🇳 A letter from China
Dan Wang is one of my favourite China analysts. In his 2021 letter, he reflects on where China is heading after a year that saw Beijing crack down on tech c…