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

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Typ okładki:miękka okładka

EAN: 9781847942920

Opis

The Times and Financial Times Book of the Year

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

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

'A sweeping, engaging, nuanced, and ultimately conflicted look at how recent innovations in computing and other emerging technologies have radically transformed human existence . . . Deft and clear-eyed.' - Financial Times

'Azhar has a knack for interrogating and inverting conventional thinking . . . A convincing case that something extraordinary is taking place in business and society.' - Economist

'Comprehensive but lively . . . An essential addition to the ongoing discourse about where remarkable new technologies can take us, and where we should be aiming to go. Highly recommended!' - Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and author of Blitzscaling

'Azhar is unapologetically bullish about the power of technology . . . He speaks powerfully about how we need to shape technology to put it back in the service of society.' - Guardian

'Read this book if you are interested in how we can design a more inclusive and sustainable system with a re-direction of technological change at its centre.' - Mariana Mazzucato, UCL professor and author of The Value of Everything and Mission Economy

'A powerful argument . . . Azeem Azhar's writing is informative and accessible, and his prescient ideas are only going to become more important as time goes on.' - Hannah Fry, BBC Radio 4 presenter and author of Hello World

'Azeem Azhar is one of the best-regarded thought leaders in the industry . . . He has a broad understanding of the ways technology can be used to solve our biggest problems, shape our society, and bridge cultural divides.' - Daniel Ek, co-founder and CEO of Spotify

'Azeem Azhar is a globally recognised voice on technology and its impact. He has written a fascinating and important book, required reading for anyone seeking to understand the new economy and the massive global corporations that seek to dominate that economy.' - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive, Royal Society of Arts

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Szczegóły

Liczba stron: 352

Wymiary: 12.9x19.8

Typ okładki:miękka okładka

Wydawca: Cornerstone

Autor:

Azeem Azhar

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

Kategorie:

Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

EAN: 9781847942920

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