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Marc Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto… (web.archive.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by fasterandworse@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I don’t really have much to say… it kind of speaks for itself. I do appreciate the table of contents so you don’t get lost in the short paragraphs though

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I figured out this manifesto exists because somebody from the EFF posted: "Nothing depresses me like the knowledge that I am going to have to spend some of my precious workday reading a manifesto." So expect a lot of sanity damage.

(Read the opening, yep, got 1d8 from that already. I'm raising the 'the invention of letters was a mistake' flag).

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Soyweiser Has he been huffing Marinetti's exhaust fumes again?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

yep, it's in there

To paraphrase a manifesto of a different time and place: “Beauty exists only in struggle. There is no masterpiece that has not an aggressive character. Technology must be a violent assault on the forces of the unknown, to force them to bow before man.”

[–] maol@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's quoting the futurists? Didn't half of them go fascist?

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

just making sure everyone knows who he looks up to, telling everyone who it is that inspires him! you know how people gush about their role models