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A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry

21/06/2024 avi maxwel

In 1993, Marc Andreessen was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he also worked at the US-government funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications. With a colleague, the young software engineer authored the Mosaic web browser, which set the standard for cruising the information superhighway in the 1990s.

Andreessen went on to cofound Netscape Communications, making a fortune in 1999 when the company was acquired by AOL for US$4.3 billion.

Since then, through his venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the outspoken billionaire has become one of the most influential wallets in Silicon Valley. His investments – in companies including Facebook, Foursquare, Github, Lyft, Oculus and Twitter – have definitively shaped tech over the past 15 years. (He once described his approach as “funding imperial, will-to-power people”.)

Because of all this, it’s worth paying attention to Andreessen’s recent “techno-optimist manifesto”. Opening with the

Most Dangerous Technology In One Piece

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One Piece might be a series about pirates, but there is no shortage of scientific marvels in it. Oda has not shied away from incorporating scientific elements into his story. Some people might think that it doesn’t gel, but the reality is that it blends nicely with the rest of the story.

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There are plenty of smart characters in One Piece, and they have created some outstanding pieces of technology. Dr. Vegapunk alone has been responsible for the creation of several incredible technologies. While most inventors try to make something that would be useful for the common population, there are others who have made dangerous technological weapons as well.

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