🔮 Elon the GOAT; invention, abatement; demographics and Mars++ #369

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.

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My latest podcast conversation…

…was with EV member, Ronit Ghose, whose report Metaverse and Money: Decrypting the Future looks at the development of payment functions in Web3 and the metaverse. We talk about…

• The metaverse as the evolution of the Internet,

• An economic estimate of virtual and physical meshing together,

• Decentralised vs. centralised metaverse.

You can listen to the podcast here, and read a high-level summary here.

The near future

🐐 The GOAT
With Tesla’s incredible results this quarter, we need to ask the question: is Elon the “greatest of all time”? His firm smashed expectations with revenues for the quarter coming in at $18.76bn and net income at $3.3bn, up from $2.3bn in th…