🔮 City stickers; cyber defences in Ukraine; crypto in America; pig emotions and literary love++ #363

Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help you understand how our societies and political economy are changing under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

🎙This week on the podcast

This week I take a look at Putin’s war in Ukraine through the prism of cybersecurity. I discuss how cyberwar is evolving with the former head of GCHQ, UK’s equivalent of the NSA, Robert Hannigan. Listen to our discussion here.

The near future

🚥 Tails of the city
In 2020, as people were fleeing cities for the countryside to avoid Covid, I argued it was too early to call time on the city. Advanced economies need the specialisation, interaction and serendipity that only cities can provide. Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution presents new research which shows that “employment growth slowed in some of the biggest tech “superstars” and increased in other midsized and smaller markets, including smaller quality-of-life meccas and college towns.” I can personally attribute this – last year, I…