Marc Andreessen is a venture capitalist. He tweets from the altar of disruption, calling forth lost souls to drink the sanguine blood of the disrupted. He is the poet laureate of Silicon Valley.
Silicon Valley’s most famous investor is a poet and he doesn’t even know it
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is executive editor who has obsessed over headlines and internet speeds since 2011. He previously worked as an advocate for the National Park System.
just saw a @pmarca tweet with a 13/ in front of it smdh
— Joshua Topolsky (@joshuatopolsky) September 25, 2014 If you want evidence that time is a flat circle, look no further than Andreessen’s “tweetstorms:” a serialized form of intellectual vomit that, as of today, has reached as high as 18 consecutive tweets. Not only will all of this happen again, but even in different combinations it will happen again, and you won’t know the difference.
None of the following tweets are part of the same tweetstorm. No tweetstorms were harmed in the making of this poem.
1/Thought experiment: Posit a world in which all material needs are provided for free, by robots and material synthesizers.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 1, 2014 2/Convenience: Reserved seating, valet parking, warm embrace of Lyft & Uber including ride-pooling, on-site daycare.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 31, 2014 3/While it is true that tech superpowers can replace need for prior manual labor, it's also true that they enhance our ability to produce.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 8, 2014 4/"Potentially unlimited output can be achieved by systems of machines which will require little cooperation from human beings."
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) August 3, 2014 5/Important to note this isn't just about toys for rich people; it's about energy conservation, water conservation, security, and safety.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 23, 2014 6/Human nature expresses itself fully, for the first time in history. Without physical need constraints, we will be whoever we want to be.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 1, 2014 7/The happiest people in the world do NOT actually do this.
— Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) May 28, 2014 Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
