Diplomacy in the Tech Age
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
EPIIPLUS 1 Ltd / Azeem Azhar
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Asana is the only work management platform built for scale. |
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| 0:15.0 | 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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