There's no shortage of tech podcasts, but few give you a true dose of the future.

The A16Z podcast is an exception.

It takes you straight to the innovators behind new materials, data centers, self-driving cars,

even electric boats, eavesdrop on the future with the A16Z podcast.

HBR presents.

Welcome to the exponential view podcast where multidisciplinary conversations

about the near future happen every week.

Now, as an entrepreneur and investor, I've been an insider in the technology industry for over 20 years

and during that time, I've observed that exponentially developing technologies

are changing the face of our economies, business models and culture in unexpected ways.

I've written about those phenomena in my book, the exponential age,

and I return to it weekly in my newsletter, exponential view, as well as on this podcast.

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I talk about general purpose technologies, paradigm shifting innovations that change the way we work across many fields

and with good reason, developments like artificial intelligence and 3D printing

have an outsize effect on human progress and change our world as an exponential rate.

Today, I want to dig into one of the most revolutionary general purpose technologies, quantum computing.

Quantum computing represents a step change in our ability to solve difficult problems

in the same way that the development of the modern computer did back in the 60s.

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