The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
“Our species is 300,000 years old. For the first 290,000 years, we were foragers, subsisting in a way that’s still observable among the Bushmen of the Kalahari and the Sentinelese of the Andaman Islands. Even after Homo Sapiens embraced agriculture, progress was painfully slow. A person born in Sumer in 4,000BC would find the resources, work, and techno…
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2 years ago · Marc Andreessen
This thing is a beast, Paul. But I've always liked Andreessen and have seen him speak to these issues before. Just not all in one place. Saved for future reference. 👍
"David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money." One of many quotables and reasoned thinking. Read slowly, and reread. Thanks, Paul.