Software is eating the world

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Marc Andreessen’s striking and influential, but paywalled, observation, in 2011, that this time really is different. As with Ray Kurzweil’s similarly bold — and aged — prediction that The Singularity is Near, much time has passed, and large tracts of the world seem, as yet, uneaten.

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