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.

Hi there, I'm Azim Azar, and you're listening to the final episode of this season's

exponential view.

Now, every week, for the past 10 months, I have been coming together with a brilliant mind

to explore how exponential technologies are shaping our near future, and what we can do

to make sure we get the future we want.

Across the years of recording these podcasts, curating my weekly newsletter and investing

and startups, I've become increasingly concerned about what we call the exponential gap.

This is the gap between the reality of what the technology can achieve for good and ill,

specifically the increasing rate of technological development on the one hand, and on the other

our ability to cope with its disruptive effects, both on a personal and societal level.

How can we hope to negotiate our relationship with technology if the institutions that

are meant to look out for our best interests?

Our Senits, Parliament and Congresses simply can't cope with a technological revolution

because they evolved in response to the industrial one.

Now, I explore this question in detail in my forthcoming book.

It's called The Exponential Age, if you're living in the US or Canada, or exponential

if you live elsewhere.

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