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It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars, even electric boats,

eavesdrop on the future with the Exponential View podcast I am Azimazar, the curator of exponential view.

That intro jingle you just heard was composed by my son and I really hope you enjoyed it.

Today's podcast is a recording of a private exponential view salon held in London in May 2017.

It's a panel discussion on the topic of hacking democracy.

It was moderated by me, a Zemazar and our panelists were as follows.

Carol Kaddewalda, guardian and observer journalist

who has been breaking ground and unearthing the work

of Cambridge Analytica, micro-targeting,

and the strange interventions

of right-wing billionaires in American

and British political processes. Professor Luciano Floridi, the Professor of Ethics of

Information at Oxford University, whose 2014 book The Infosphere talks about how we are living

in a world of mass information where the boundaries between online and offline disappear.

Our third panelist is Harry Kzru, a novelist and cultural commentator.

Not only has he written highly acclaimed novels, but his short stories in journalism have appeared

in many publications including Wired magazine. He's currently braided. journalism have

many publications including Wired magazine. He's currently braving it in Trumps America.

And finally we have Tom Luzmoor, a digital government pioneer,

he's now helping renovate the co-op and reinvent the notion of collaborative companies.

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