Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.

I'm your host Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to Econ Talk. in to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done

going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econ talk.org we'd love to hear from you. Today is February 20th, 2024,

and my guest is author and technology expert, Azim Azhar.

He is the author of exponential order and chaos in an age of accelerating technology,

which is our general topic for today along with what is coming next.

His sub-stack is exponential view.

Azim welcome to Econ Talk.

Russ, it's really great to be on the show, thank you.

What is your background? What have you done with yourself besides write a book and

uh and a very interesting sub stack? You know I'm just a really lucky creature of time because I was born just as the microprocessor

revolution took off in 1972. So as a child I had a computer, we had a couple of computers by 1981 in the home.

I always had them.

But my parents are economists and I ended up doing a social science degree

which included economics but never leaving sight of my love of

computing and my career has been a bridge between those two worlds for the last 30 years.

And so I've worked in the tech industry.

I know a little bit about economics, not as much as you,

not as much as some of your guests.

And I try to bring them together in my daily life.

I hope your parents are okay with the fact that you've slipped into a more practical realm of life.

I think they were quite happy when the book came out and it wasn't about building products

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