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Hi and welcome to the Exponential View podcast.

I'm your host, Azim Azar and we've got two special editions of the podcast coming up.

In the first of which we're going to reflect on what has been frankly quite a weird year

of ups and downs and somehow stasis.

And in the second we're going to look forward to the trends from 2022 and beyond.

For many of us with COVID cases climbing and restrictions being put back in place,

we may feel that life today, December 2021 looks quite similar to December 2020.

But in between the spike of this COVID variance, there has been so much going on.

It has been quite a fantastic up and down year of developments across technology from AI breakthroughs

to new types of chips to record levels of funding for startups to continued pressure on big tech firms

from computational authorities and of course whistleblowers.

crypto has had a crazy year of record highs and nauseous volatility.

And of course we've seen the arrival of a $90 million JPEG and the new multi-billion dollar industry

based around non-fungible tokens or NFTs.

Exponential View delivered 38 podcasts in this year,

excluding this one and of course I published my book exponential or the exponential age

if you're in the US and Canada.

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