Azhar: Four new tech platforms will supplant 20th-century technology foundations
Azeem Azhar · Fireside Chat - Azeem Azhar (Author, The Exponential Age) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Mar 8, 2022 · at 2:03
Azeem Azhar, founder of Exponential View and author of 'The Exponential Age', discusses shifting technological paradigms with Matt Turck of FirstMark.
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“And the contention that I have today is that we are at a point and just past a cusp where there are new general purpose technology platforms that are going to supplant the ones that define the 20th century. And those are the broad technology platforms of computing and artificial intelligence, which is the most important of these of what's happening in the fields of biology, particularly when it intersects with data driven approaches. What's happening in the field of energy, and what's happening with manufacturing, and these four technology platforms are powerful and broad, but they're also closely interrelated.”
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