Exponential View by Azeem Azhar | Substack

For a time, the impact of technology was contained within a narrow segment of the economy. The only ones to be unnerved were executives in the advertising and media industries. The Napster trial was the first showdown between a fast-growing startup and incumbents dominating an old industry. Then Google began its rise from being a better search engi

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To conclude, the new computer network will not necessarily be either bad or good. All we know for sure is that it will be alien and it will be fallible. We therefore need to build institutions that will be able to check not just familiar human weaknesses like greed and hatred but also radically alien errors. There is no technological solution to th

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