Technology

The only thing scary about the manifesto is how much power people like Marc Andreeson have amassed despite seeming to have all the wisdom, awareness, and ability to compose an essay of a high school kid. He even says “elites” as if Silicon Valley billionaires aren’t included.

So, I’m not sure how people are reading parallels to history in it. It’s not really deep enough for all that. (If you want to do that, all you need is that Tweet where he said “Anti-colonialism has been economically catastrophic for the Indian people” when India chose net neutrality over Facebook‘s scheme to privilege its own traffic.)