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It's Time to Govern — Letters to a Young Technologist

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"It's Time To Build." A year after its publication, Marc Andreessen's essay is still a rallying cry among technologists who lament our inability to solve society's biggest problems. The essay calls out Western societies' inability to build more housing, better transportation, and manufacture products—all exposed by the embarrassing American response to COVID-19. "It's Time To Build" pointed to something important. While software is eating the world, many of our deepest problems are not technology problems. We had the technology to tackle many of the challenges of the past year; for example, distributing COVID vaccines, manufacturing masks, and tracking case numbers. We failed to build because of politics - bureaucracies unfit for a crisis. One of the greatest lessons of the COVID pandemic is that many of the problems we care most about solving, will require technologists to enter politics and help fix our institutions. So it's time to build... better institutions. It's time for technol

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