‘The gap between our institutions’ capacity to change and our new technologies’ accelerating speed is the defining consequence of our shift into the Exponential Age. On the one side, you have the new behaviours, relationships and structures that are enabled by exponentially improving technologies, as well as the products and services built from them. On the other, you have the norms that have evolved or been designed to suit the needs of earlier configurations of technology. The gap leads to extreme tension. In the Exponential Age, this divergence is ongoing — and it is everywhere.’
Azhar, A. (2022), Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology. Penguin Books.
Picture shows the cover artwork of this book, a minimal, monochrome design, in which the letters of the word Exponential are arranged on six metal balls of a Newton’s Cradle device, and the ball on the right poised to swing back and disrupt the others.
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