A decade of discontent is coming. | by Joan Westenberg | Dec, 2023 | Medium
Marc Andreessen is a name synonymous with Silicon Valley success. The venture capitalist, billionaire and Twitter influencer has spent 30 years shaping our technological world. And he is currently promoting the novel idea that only the elite are concerned about tech acceleration. Andreessen’s Tweet might look like a defence of emerging technologies against perceived elitist scorn. A (marginally) deeper examination reveals a calculated strategy. Andreessen is intent on reshaping the discourse surrounding AI and VR, steering the backlash away from these technologies and the elites propelling them. To this end, he and his contemporaries have started to adopt the rhetoric of anti-elitism, attempting to recast scepticism towards AI and VR as a form of elitist bias, conveniently sidestepping its recognition as a widespread, legitimate concern among the broader, non-elite populace. The core issues that Andreessen refers to in his tweet — diminishing social connections, crumbling infrastructur
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