October 18, 2023

Be very careful when you read this manifesto by Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape. It is full of logical inconsistencies, contradictions, and wishful thinking. Nevertheless, Andreessen provides a window into his philosophy and worldview. He issues a call to ditch your "zombie ideas" and "Become our allies in the pursuit of technology, abundance, and life." This is what early Technocrats said in the 1930s, who were also living in a simulacrum, detached from reality.