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!"
"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
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