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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

The Future of Work and Democracy in the Information Age

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Matthew Taylor, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts, a UK organization committed to finding practical solutions to societal problems, discusses the well-being economy, the meaning of good work in an age of automation, and the state of democracy.

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0:00.0

There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.

0:06.0

The A16Z podcast is an exception.

0:09.0

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

0:15.5

eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast. In these times of polarisation, populism and pessimism, those three ps that we confront every day,

0:29.0

it's vitally important that when we talk about technological change in particular we start from the human

0:34.8

ends of change. What is it we are trying to achieve as a consequence of technological

0:39.5

change? Hello and welcome to the Exponential View Podcast I'm Asima Zah the Creator of the Exponential

0:55.8

view and your host today.

0:58.5

In today's podcast I'm in conversation with Matthew Taylor, the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts and

1:04.3

formerly the head of policy for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Matthew and I talk

1:08.9

about the well-being economy in the age of technology and how we'll get there.

1:13.0

But before we get to the conversation, let me tell you about exponential view.

1:17.0

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

1:21.0

The podcast, these conversations with some brilliant

1:24.6

minds, is one avenue. The other is through my free newsletter, A Wonder Missive which lands

1:30.2

in your inbox every Sunday. If you haven't subscribed you can find it at

1:34.5

W.

1:42.2

W. exponential view. That is W. W. exponential view.

1:41.2

C.O. In today's conversation with Matthew Taylor we explore the well-being economy and what it means in an age of technology.

1:49.0

Matthew argues that the narrow focus of the economy on economic growth,

1:53.1

supported by an unstoppable train of complex technology,

1:56.7

might lose widespread popular support

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