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<b><i>The Times</i> and <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Year<br> <br> 'Essential'</b> Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn<br> <b>'Powerful'</b> Hannah Fry, author of <i>Hello World</i><br> <b>'Brilliant'</b> Robert Peston, ITV Political Editor and author of <i>WTF</i><br> <br> 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.<br> <br> Azeem Azhar - writer, technologist, and creator of the acclaimed <i>Exponential View</i> 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.<br> <br> In <i>Exponential</i>, 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.