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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CHART OF THE WEEK

Mentions of Mastodon, the open-source federated network that many see as a Twitter alternative have spiked in the past few days. (🤩 You can find me on Mastodon here.)

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