Azeem Azhar (Part 1) - The Impact of Exponential Growth and Why Technology is Innate to Humanity

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🗓️ 4 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Today's guest is Azeem Azhar, one of the leading names in technology and podcasting in the English speaking world.With my new book, Scary Smart, releasing September 30th, and Azeem's new book, Exponential, releasing September 7th, I thought this would be a perfect conversation to set the context for an important discussion on the state of future. To ask it simply, will the future be better or worse?Azeem Azhar is on a mission to explain how our lives are changing due to the exponential ...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to slow more. My guest today is a technologist, a journalist, an author, and a fellow podcaster and
0:41.5	an entrepreneur who is determined to explain how our societies and
0:48.6	way of life will change under the force of exponential growth of technologies.
0:54.0	He is determined to bring together the two cultures of innovation and tech and of business on one side
1:00.0	and society and policy on the other side in order to help us
1:05.2	understand the real implications of the technological changes that we are
1:10.6	witnessing. Asim Azar is the writer behind the exponential view, which is Britain's leading platform
1:20.3	for in-depth analysis of technology. His weekly newsletter is read by more than 200,000 people
1:27.0	from around the world. He is also the host of the Chart Topping Podcast in Technology, which is the Exponential View
1:36.7	Podcast. This is a top 10 podcast in the UK in the technology category, a top 50 in the the US and he has hosted guests from Tony Blair to
1:46.5	Yoval Harare to Elif Shafak. I have to ask him to introduce as one of my favorite authors of all time and many, many other prominent
1:56.2	science, culture, politics, economics and technology leaders.
2:00.3	He is also the author of a new book, The Exponential Age in the US, Exponential in the UK,
2:08.0	and the book is basically attempting to bring together lots of Azim's experiences around the exponential growth
2:14.8	and its impact and what needs to be done in society in order to cope with the
2:20.2	changes that are about to come to us. I'm going to be a guest on Azim's podcast in a few weeks time to speak about
2:26.2	Scary Smart. Today we're going to be talking about perhaps something for most of us who are non-technologists may not really be fully aware of,
2:35.8	but we're going to be talking about the true rate of growth of technology and how that impacts our life.
2:41.5	I hope you're going to enjoy that conversation with Azim Azar.
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