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Hi there, it's Aseme and welcome to the Exponential View podcast. Now this is a special episode of the podcast. It is a last episode of the year, number 40 and it's the last episode of

2020. This crazy and stressful year that we have all put up with.

I'm going to reflect on the year and try to answer some of the questions put forward by members of Exponential View.

In the 39 previous episodes, I've had some fantastic conversations.

I've been really fortunate to speak some brilliant people.

I've spoken to two presidents, the president of Estonia and the president of

Microsoft I've explored the science and politics of aging I've dug into the

questions of synthetic biology and the scientific and economic opportunities it presented, I explored what we should do with the

data economy and how we should think about small scale and large scale innovation and what the

right way of funding startups could be. I talked to the bosses of the

world to leading artificial intelligence, industrial research labs and many, many more fascinating people.

It's a really rich set of discussions.

And if you haven't listened to every conversation,

I'd urge you to go off and treat yourself.

So let's come to 2020, and I want to talk about a particular dynamic which I think in a sense is two sides of the same coin.

Until COVID struck, much part of the narrative of technology was that people in some sense is getting slightly bored with it,

slightly bored with the stories of bad behavior from the world's biggest tech firms.

There was definitely a tech lash brewing, a sign of people asking,

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