# The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society

By Simon Hørup Eskildsen · 2021-09-24 · Book by Azeem Azhar, rated 3/5 · https://sirupsen.com/books/exponential-age

The central thesis is that tech grows exponentially, but humans adapt linearly.
Azhar calls this the 'exponential gap.' Human adaptation is slow through
legislation, habits, producing physical goods, adapting to new increases in
productivity and getting disrupted by companies that do it better is slow too.

This gap is the topic of this book. I'm not sure I think the book answers the
critical question of _how_ it can be minimized. There's lots of interesting
points, stats and supporting evidence for this gap.. but, I don't really need to
be convinced. I'm missing a bit more revelation for the 100page+ investment.
Might be that I read too much about all this already.

I think if you know little about 3D-printing, AI, self-driving cars, automation,
robots, etc., then this book's probably worth the read!