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Marc Andreessen Is (Mostly) Wrong This Time | WIRED

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Silicon Valley’s preeminent venture capitalist tries to craft the ur-narrative for generative AI, and in doing so lays bare its contradictions.

Save this story Save this story Marc Andreessen occasionally sets the world on its ear with a sweeping hypothesis about the dawn of a new technological era. In his legendary 2011 blog post “ Why Software Is Eating the World ,” the cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz made the then-novel, now-undeniable case that even the most old-school industrial companies would soon have to put software at their core. In 2020, as Covid-19 caught the world desperately short of masks and nasal swabs, he published “ It’s Time To Build ,” a call to arms for reviving investment in technologies that could solve urgent

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