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Exponential View. In this podcast, our very first, we're going to take you to a fireside

chat on the future of work with author Ryan Avant.

Ryan has just written a book called The Wealth of Humans, which asks a critical question.

Can our modern societies and economies whether the changes brought by exponential technologies and growing globalization?

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Ryan it's a fantastic book and I just want to demonstrate its fantasticness which is the

amount of these little yellow flags I've got in here and it looks like I got bored halfway

through but I didn't ran out of yellow flags so I had to start

creasing pages so it is a great book the wealth of humans and and I think the

within that you've got these three themes which are automation the arrival of

snazia machines you've got globalization the arrival of global supply chains and global

markets and you have this third force which is the massive

boost of productivity to the most well-trained individuals resulting in them getting

lots of the rewards and sometimes when you read the picture of the world that you

describe it feels a bit whack-a-mole it's everything is intertwined so globalization

makes us wealthier but it makes us less equal.

And even though we're wealthier

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