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. Hi, I'm Azimazar, and you're listening to Exponential View, a weekly

podcast in which I will explore all the ways our world is changing under the

force of technology.

My next guest, Parag Kana, is an independent advisor on macro issues.

He's recently written a new book, The Future is Asian.

In our conversation today, we talk about the law of technology, diffusion and

what it means for the rise of Asia. Whether the future is one of states or cities or

something more complex and how we should think about the new

dynamics emerging between technology and geopolitics.

Well today I'm here with Parag Kana who is an independent advisor on macro issues and an

author who has written extensively about the impact of technology on our geopolitics.

Prague it's a pleasure to have you here today. Thank you so much, Azim. Really looking forward to our conversation.

Well, it's such a crazy and exciting time at the moment and I was thinking about how are we going to start this conversation

and of course I opened the papers today

and there was yet another story about Huawei

and another British company saying they weren't going to be working with Huawei which is a

Chinese telecoms company it seems like the great game is making its way into the

stayed old business of phone switches and phone routers.

What's going on?

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