Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, who helped create Facebook, Twitter and LinkedInk, has published what critics call a 5000-word rant. It deserves respect.
by American venture capitalist and internet pioneer Marc Andreessen, is all three. But as national, economic and personal freedom is threatened across the world, a fairer description might be courageous.At a time when fewer than one in five Americans trust Facebook, Google is being sued as a monopolist and every mistake Elon Musk makes is celebrated, Andreessen provides a forceful and timely counterargument: technological development created civilisation.
As for sceptics who see a tech investor advocating for the interests of billionaires, Andreessen sites the Yale economist who won a Nobel Prize for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis. The world’s leading progressive media outlet versus a Silicon Valley libertarian doesn’t feel like a fair fight. Andreessen’s short, Twitter-like sentences certainly can’t keep up Klein’s elaborate prose. But his colour-blind, growth-driven, merit-based philosophy carries a blunt, moral force.
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