How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 18: Welfare in the Exponential Age
Existing social institutions are not adequate to meet the challenges of the exponential age. Social entrepreneur and author, Hilary Cottam, proposes a radical overhaul of the welfare system. In discussion with Azeem Azhar, she also argues that we must reject the old economic model for humanity, Homo econonomicus (guided by ration to maximize economic gains), and embrace Sapiens integra, a new theoretical human with stronger connections to nature and other humans.
In this conversation, they discuss:
- The New Industrialists and their role in the social revolution.
- How a switch from the mindset of efficiency to the mindset of care can transform our institutions.
- The role of new technologies in this transformation.
Further reading:
- “Radical Help” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
- “Revolution 5.0: A Social Manifesto” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
- “The Future of Public Service and Governance” (Exponential View podcast, 2018)
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