What Marc Andreessen thinks about optimism

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Wrote the Techno-Optimist Manifesto and “Why AI Will Save The World”.

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1. 25 Jan 2022

   Our readingOpen access to information makes a closed information regime on the Soviet model fundamentally impossible to sustain.

   Their wordsit's like could you ever have another Soviet Union like in the era of the internet? Um you know North Korea's doing their damndest to try to maintain that model you know but without going full North Korea like I'm not sure you can. I I mean, I guess I'm an optimist on this point. Like I tend to think open access information basically makes a lot of these historical things, you know, fundamentally impossible.

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