Azeem Azhar is the creator of the Exponential View, a global platform for in-depth tech analysis. His weekly newsletter is read by nearly two hundred thousand people from around the world, and his chart-topping podcast has featured guests including Yuval Noah Harari, Reid Hoffman, and Tony Blair. Over the last three decades, Azhar has founded and invested in a number of successful tech companies bought by firms like Amazon and Microsoft. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Futures Council, a senior advisor at PwC, and a contributor to publications including the Financial Times, Prospect, and the MIT Technology Review. He served as the Economist's first ever internet correspondent. He lives in London.
Praise for The Exponential Age
The world is in the midst of [an exponential] transformation,
argues Azeem Azhar....With his experience as a startup
entrepreneur, tech investor, innovation executive at big companies
and journalist, Mr. Azhar is well-placed to decrypt these digital
trends. He has a knack for interrogating and inverting conventional
thinking, for example in making the case that the adoption of
exponential technology leads to job increases, not cuts--witness
the rising headcounts of expanding businesses such as Amazon or
Ocado, a British online grocer. The unemployment that results, he
says, is down to the firms that fail to adapt, not those that do.
--The Economist Azeem Azhar is one of the best-regarded thought
leaders in the industry. But more importantly, he has a broad
understanding of the exponential ways technology can be used to
solve our biggest problems, shape our society, and bridge cultural
divides. --Daniel Ek, founder and CEO of Spotify As high-tech
innovation accelerates in ways that deliver huge benefits to
society but also create unique challenges, Azeem delivers a
comprehensive but lively take on the key issues informing what he
calls the Exponential Age. It's an essential addition to the
ongoing discourse about where these remarkable new technologies can
take us, and where we should be aiming to go. Highly
recommended!
--Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and co-author of
Blitzscaling While many talk about the rate of innovation, too few
talk about its direction. Azeem's new book helps bring that
directionality to the surface through a dynamic understanding of
the connections between economic, social and technological forces.
Read this book if you are interested in how we can design a more
inclusive and sustainable system with a redirection of
technological change at its center.
--Mariana Mazzucato, Professor at University College London, and
author of Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Every generation fears technology is changing frighteningly fast.
Usually it is hyperbole, the fear of the unknown, but today
technological shifts are posing challenges to our security, our
democracies, our way of life, and our sanity. Azeem Azhar's
brilliant book demystifies these exponentially fast changes
and--importantly--shows how the chronic volatility can be harnessed
for good. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how
to reclaim a good society from the snapping jaws of looming
chaos.
--Robert Peston, ITV News' political editor and presenter of ITV's
show Peston Azeem is a master at interpreting a dazzling array of
trends and illuminating the future. Exponential is a must read to
understand the problems, promise, and paths forward on the
exponential journey ahead for us as individuals, businesses, and
society.
--Paul Daugherty, Group Chief Executive Officer, Technology,
Accenture Most businesses and business leaders measure and think in
linear terms. Azeem Azhar understands and writes about how the
truly important breakthroughs take the form of exponential
functions. In The Exponential Age, Azeem builds the case for
exponential thinking through insightful examples of technologies
that have made possible discontinuous leaps forward.
--Tom Glocer, Former CEO of Thomson Reuters, and Executive Chairman
at BlueVoyant LLC and Capitolis Inc Azeem Azhar's The Exponential
Age presents an audacious spectrum of interconnecting trends, which
already profoundly impact our lives. In the book, the risks and
challenges arising out of the exponentially leaping technologies
are masterfully balanced with opportunities and proposed policy
actions. The book is an essential read for leaders and enthusiasts
who care about the better future for all.
--Giedrimas Jeglinskas, Assistant Secretary General at NATO Using
countless stories and insightful analysis, Azeem Azhar guides us
from the industrial assumptions we grew up with to the exponential
realities that define our future.
--Tom Wheeler, Brookings Institution, author of From Gutenberg to
Google: A History of Our Future Azeem Azhar is that rare thing: a
thought-leader who has also been a tech founder. The combination of
big-picture vision and real tech experience shines through in this
unmissable book.
--Stian Westlake, Chief Executive, Royal Statistical Society
Azeem's new book charts a clear path through an uncertain and
complex future, one shaped by technology and one which accelerates
at an exponential rate. He takes us on a journey into our
collective future, asks the hard questions and provides a
compelling possible future for all of us. A must-read for anyone
who wants to actively shape the decades ahead.
--Pascal Finette, Founder, be radical Azeem Azhar is a globally
recognized voice on technology and its impact. He has written a
fascinating and important book. It's required reading for anyone
seeking to understand the new economy and the massive global
corporations that seek to dominate that economy.
--Matthew Taylor, CEO of the RSA Azeem's kinetic mind is uniquely
able to connect social, political, economic and technological
trends in ways that inspire and challenge. The Exponential Age is a
natural extension and expansion of Azeem's unique ability, on
display in his podcast and newsletter, of isolating, unpicking and
retying the threads which make up the fabric of our
technosociety.
--Carly Kind, Director, Ada Lovelace Institute You will be
exponentially smarter after having read Azeem Azhar's book.
--Laure Claire Reillier, COO and Co-Founder Launchworks & Co,
Co-Author Platform Strategy
A much-needed manual for unlocking opportunities and overcoming
vertigo in a world that seems to be spinning out of control. Azeem
Azhar, a genius networker, proves to be a brilliant guide to our
intensely networked age.
--Kevin Werbach, Professor, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania I can't think of a more important book to bring into
sharp relief the rate of technological change we are currently
living in. It is no longer a matter of linear change over time. It
is a matter of transformative and exponential shifts in all matters
of life.
--Tsedal Neeley, Senior associate dean at Harvard Business School
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