Culture | Technology, business and society
Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
A third explains how to profit from it
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The Exponential Age. By Azeem Azhar. Diversion Books; 352 pages; $28.99. Published in Britain as “Exponential”; Random House Business; £20
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “The ascent of the machine”
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