What is Marc Andreessen talking about
I saw Marc Andreessen tweet "Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now." and thought there was a solar flare coming or something.
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511929365264805897
He's also been non-stop tweeting about "current thing", is there some SV drama that's gotten him worked up?
He’s talking about how the mainstream media is whipping people up into a fury over one crisis after another while civilization collapses, with free speech crumbing, supply chains failing and the potential for large scale war and disease a real possibility.
Also some stuff might get even more exciting in the political arena, WRT the revelations of corruption around certain high profile figures.
Also the threat of cyber attacks seems very real.
WRT the 'current thing', it's just internet slang for mocking people who go along with trends. Marc also seems to get hold of neologisms very quickly, as with the whole 'wordcel/shape rotator' meme and the informal usage of 'lindy'.
90% of the time guy seems to be trolling for fun.
the "current thing" refers to everyone bandwagoning on supporting ukraine when they didnt do anything to help them for like 10 years and there were tons of people warning "putin is going to invade someday."
He's red and mad about posts. Spending too much time on Twitter will drive even a disciplined mind insane.
In my opinion he was referring to the fact that more and more often older pages on the internet are 'updated' or 'fixed' for political reasons.
This can't happen with books.
He’s talking about Milady NFTs, Urbit, and psychic Zoomers… duh
“Current thing” in this context is the “current thing the Internet is outraged by or is perceived to be overly-concerned about”. An oblique reference to Cancel Culture.
It seems like he’s become emboldened by Elon Musk’s tweeting and is trying to play a similar role.
(I have no opinion of pmarca, good or bad, except perhaps that he wastes too much time thinking about Internet drama.)
Given the rapid change in the way people consume information, books are likely to be as easy to get as Paper Road Atlases are.
He is talking about all time high levels of censorship if you count the number of humans being censored. I've been banned and unbanned 4 times (130k subs on youtube.) An ex president was removed everywhere. Tons of people are banned every single day, with no recourse but to go to empty alt-tech sites where no one watches.
You are also at all time high surveillance. You're also at all time high freedom of movement restriction. I could go on, but I'm tired of gritting my teeth.
He may be talking about Kindle not using an open format.
He's trolling and lampooning people that are obsessed with blindly agreeing with the mainstream-sanctioned narratives (Covid, Ukraine). The book thing is probably a comment on censorship and historical revisionism that is occurring as part of the effort to prop up certain narratives. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten called a right-wing nationalist yet.
You guys severely underestimate how many people have some wine or a beer and tweet lol.
Drunk tweeting is a thing.
I've never heard Andreesen say anything I thought was particularly insightful or intelligent. He seems like a caricature of a Silicon Valley programmer who got lucky and made a bunch of money who now thinks that makes him a genius thought leader for the rest of his life. I hate his tagline "software is eating the world" If a homeless person standing outside a grocery store said these things you wouldn't listen because the sound like the ravings of a crank.