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 exponential view podcast.

Now, every week I come together with a brilliant mind to explore how exponential technologies

are shaping our near future.

There is a thesis behind all of this, and I lay it out in my new book.

It's called the exponential age for those of you in Canada and the US, or exponential elsewhere in the world.

And this thesis is that we are entering into the exponential age.

It's a new period of human affairs, catalyzed by accelerating technology platforms across four broad domains,

computing, energy, biology, and manufacturing.

You can get a copy of the book, wherever you get your books, or go to exponential-book.com.

If you listen to this podcast to read my newsletter, you'll recognize parts of that thesis come to life in these conversations.

The car is emblematic of the 20th century, defining modern life, and our lives in cities, like perhaps no other technology.

And no other car company is as emblematic as Ford, which first drove down the price of the car,

and brought with it the innovations of permanent, high-wage, blue collar work, mass production, and even the two-day weekend.

Today, as we transition through to the exponential age, the purpose of the car, the nature of the car, is up for grabs.

Electrification, connectivity, autonomy, new models of sharing ownership are promising a very different future for our four-wheeled companions.

So I'm delighted to have, as my guest today, Hal Taitang, the Chief Product Platform and Operations Officer at Ford Globally.

In that role, he's across a number of the developments that will shape the future of the industry, across electrification, connectivity, business models, and autonomy.

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