Azhar, Azeem,   1972-  <br/><br/>
The exponential age :  how accelerating technology is transforming business, politics, and society / 
Azeem Azhar. 
 - First Diversion Books edition 
 - New York, NY  :  Diversion Books,    2021. 
 - xx, 330 pages :   illustrations ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Preface: the great transition<br/>The harbinger<br/>The exponential age<br/>The exponential gap<br/>The unlimited company<br/>Labour's loves lost<br/>The world is spiky<br/>The new world disorder<br/>Exponential citizens<br/>Conclusion: abundance and equity 
<br/><br/> "A revelatory take on where technology is taking us, from one of the worlds most-followed tech writers. We are entering the Exponential Age. Between faster computers, better software and bigger data, ours is the first era in human history in which technology is constantly accelerating. Azeem Azhar - writer, technologist, and creator of the acclaimed Exponential View newsletter - understands this shift better than anyone. Technology, he argues, is developing at an increasing, exponential rate. But human society - from our businesses to our political institutions - can only ever adapt at a slower, incremental pace. The result is an 'exponential gap', between the power of new technology and our ability to keep up. In Exponential, Azhar shows how this exponential gap can explain our society's most pressing problems - from established businesses' difficulty keeping up with digital platforms, to the sclerotic response of liberal democracies to fast-moving social problems. And he draws on cutting-edge social science to explain how to stop the exponential gap eroding our economies, our politics and our lives. Exponential technology is upending our society. This book explains how"--   -Publisher's description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781635769098 1635769094 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tecnología<br/>Tecnología --Aspectos sociales <br/>Tecnología y civilización
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T 14.5  / A994e 2021