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Welcome to the Exponential View podcast.

I'm your host, Azim Azar, and let's get the years started.

First of all, happy new year, happy 2022, and I hope the next 12 months are spectacular for you.

Now, in this special edition of the podcast, I am going to talk about six interesting themes

that I think are going to shape, not just the coming 12 months, but beyond.

Now, many of you who read my newsletter will know that every couple of years I put out some predictions

with a slightly longer duration.

I think predicting what will happen in the next 12 months is a hard exercise.

It's akin to betting on which horse is going to win the race.

But what we can do is say useful things of some of the underlying and fundamental themes.

Now, my themes for 2030 still hold together.

You can find those themes if you go back to the newsletter archive at ExponentialView.co.

I also identify some key mega trends in my book, Exponential,

or if you're in the US and Canada, it's called the Exponential Age.

Now, out of all of this, I have identified six things that I think will become important

over the next few years and we will be able to notice during 2022.

Number one, I think we're just going to hear a lot more from technologies that a few years ago

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