The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Azeem Azhar
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
And so the story of this century will be about the clash between what technology offers and what we feel comfortable with.
W. Brian Arthur • The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
Our civilization was built on technology.
Our civilization is built on technology.
Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.
For hundreds of years, we properly glorified this – until recently.
I am here to bring the good news.
We can advance to a far superior way of living... See more
Our civilization is built on technology.
Technology is the glory of human ambition and achievement, the spearhead of progress, and the realization of our potential.
For hundreds of years, we properly glorified this – until recently.
I am here to bring the good news.
We can advance to a far superior way of living... See more
Marc Andreessen • The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Nature’s laws do not change very much. So long as the store of human knowledge continues to expand, as it has since Gutenberg’s printing press, we will slowly come to a better understanding of nature’s signals, if never all its secrets. And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about bec
... See moreNate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
It is one of the great truisms of our time that we live in an age of technological acceleration; the new paradigms keep rolling in, and the intervals between them keep shortening.