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Marc Andreessen is the tech bro’s tech bro. A Silicon Valley venture capitalist, he co-founded Netscape. He is also a visionary. His 2023 Techno-Optimist Manifesto sets out an ambitious prospectus for the wealth and wellbeing of humanity. He has no time for those anxious about the effects of technology on jobs, inequality, or society. “We are told to be pessimistic…to be miserable about the future”, he writes. But these pessimists are making a mistake. Human civilisation, he argues, was and is built on technology—“the glory of human ambition and achievement”.
