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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Diplomacy in the Tech Age

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Casper Klynge, the world's first tech ambassador, with a global mandate and staff in Copenhagen, Silicon Valley, and Beijing, assesses the current alignment between some of the largest technology companies and nation-states and discusses the role of technology in fostering democracy and innovation.

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But the basic assumption on our side is of course that technology transcends everything,

0:22.0

you know, the distinction between what is local

0:24.8

and what is global makes no sense anymore. Some of the platforms have no respect for

0:29.2

national borders. The voice you heard was that of Casper Klinger, the Danish Technology Ambassador and the world's first. The View Podcasts that's brought to you jointly with Casper.

0:54.0

For thousands of years, technology developments have significantly impacted politics.

0:58.8

Take the immense improvements in shipping technology and navigation during the 16th and 17th centuries

1:03.5

and the advantage this gave to European nations,

1:06.0

or the development of the Telegraph in the 19th century,

1:09.1

which reduced the communication delay across a continent from 10 days to less than an hour.

1:14.4

Although powerful, these technologies were really merely viewed as tools, not as political

1:18.2

agents.

1:19.2

Well, this has changed with the internet.

1:21.7

Many companies now have revenues that exceed the GDP of many nations.

1:27.0

The largest internet platform Facebook has nearly twice as many users as China has people. In some cases these companies hold the reins

1:36.5

over the digital public sphere. So what are the implications of these changes? We're going

1:41.8

to tackle these issues and many more in one of my very favorite conversations of the year.

1:47.0

So before we get to that conversation with Casper, let me tell you about exponential view.

1:51.0

It's my way of explaining how the world is changing under the force of technology.

1:56.4

The podcast, these conversations with some brilliant minds is one avenue.

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