Marc Andreessen - Making the Future

Productivity growth was much higher from, call it, the 1920s to the 1970s than it was from the 1970s until today. Generally speaking, the rate of technological change in the economy has been decelerating for the last four years, not accelerating.

If you ask any responsible parent... 'Would you like your kid to have the same job you do, or would you like them to have a better job?' ... Ask a parent who works in a blue collar profession. Ask a parent who works on an assembly line or works in the frontline of manual labor, the harder work. 'Do you want your kid to be doing that, or would you r... See more

If you want more job creation, if you want higher wages, and if you want more of a sense of opportunity and potential and the ability to be fulfilled and the ability for people to provide for their family and for their kids to have great jobs in the future, you actually want more technology in the economy. You want more productivity growth, you wan... See more

Software is the lever of the world. Somebody types in code, that code runs, the real-world changes. And the real-world changes not just arbitrarily but in a way that's more efficient, that's more organized, that's more productive, that provides more opportunity to people.

There's no limit to how much a house in San Francisco can cost. There is no limit to how much heart surgery in any hospital can cost. There's no limit to what a four-year college degree can cost; it can potentially cost infinite because the government will just keep subsidizing it ... It's obvious what we need to do. We need to technologically disr... See more