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Today is February 20, 2024, and my guest is author and technology expert Azim Azhar.
He is the author of Exponential Order and cast in an Age of Accelerating Technology, which is our general topic for today, along with what is coming next.
His substack is exponential view.
Azim, welcome to Econ Talk.
Russ, it's really great to be on the show.
Thank you.
What is your background?
What have you done with yourself besides write a book and a very interesting substack?
I'm just a really lucky creature of time because I was born just as the microprocessor revolution took off in 1972.
As a child, I had a computer.
We had a couple of computers by 1981 in the home.
I always had them, but my parents were economists, and I ended up doing a social science degree, which included economics, but never leaving sight of my love of computing.
And my career has been a bridge between those two worlds for the last 30 years.
And so I've worked in the tech industry.