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Hi there, I'm Azim Azar and you're listening to the Exponential View podcast.

Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to explore how exponential technologies

are shaping on near future.

Now before we get on with today's podcast, I want to share some really exciting news.

Now my first book will be published in September and as listeners of the podcast, I'm sure you're going to love it

and I would love you to be amongst the first readers of it when it is published.

In the book, I advance the idea that we're entering into a new era, the Exponential Age.

It's one which will be driven by the types of radical technologies which we often discuss in these conversations.

We're going through a transition.

It's one that will have dramatic impact on our ways of life, our economics, our work relationships,

our geopolitics and democratic systems.

This creates a tension that I call the exponential gap.

My view is that the exponential gap is a great way of understanding some of these pressing frictions

and needless to say, I suggest how we might eliminate them.

This book published as exponential in most parts of the world

and the exponential age in the US and Canada is available to pre-order.

Just visit www.exponential-book.com

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