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Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year

'Enticing' Sunday Times | 'Excellent' Amol Rajan, BBC News | 'Engaging' Financial Times

As technology accelerates, the human mind struggles to keep up — and our companies, workplaces, and democracies get left behind. This is the exponential gap.

Now, a leading technologist explains how this exponential gap is rewiring business and society. Exploring corporations and the workplace, diplomacy and big tech, Exponential makes sense of a period of dizzyingly fast change — and reveals how we should respond. ___

'Valuable and timely ... The importance of the book lies in its diligent and comprehensive definition of a new phase in human affairs' Sunday Times

'As a primer on our latest multi-dimensional technological revolution and how it is rewriting the rules of society, economics and politics, this book is hard to beat' Financial Times

'Azhar speaks powerfully about how we need to shape technology to put it back in the service of society' Guardian

'A convincing case that something extraordinary is taking place in business and society' Economist

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 384
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781847942920
  • Release date
  • 2022