Amidst the deafening anti-technology rhetoric, Marc Andreessen emerges as a champion for the power and potential of tech with his latest essay: 'The Techno-Optimist Manifesto'., which builds on claims Andreessen made in a June essay titled "Why AI Will Save the World".

"We are being lied to," Andreessen begins...

We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of  ruining everything.

We are told to be angry, bitter, and resentful about  technology.

We are told to be pessimistic. The myth of Prometheus – in various updated forms like Frankenstein, Oppenheimer, and Terminator – haunts our nightmares. We are told to denounce our birthright – our intelligence, our control over nature, our ability to build a better world.

We are told to be miserable about the future.

However, Andreessen argues that these are all lies.

Instead, with technology as humanity's spearhead, the Silicon Valley legend foresees a future driven by growth, invention, and unstoppable progress.

"...we have the tools, systems, and ideas to advance to a far superior way of living and being."

And he calls on people to embrace technology and work together to create a better world.

Markets, fueled by technology, offer a decentralized, complex system that promotes collective achievement and prosperity.

"We believe central planning is a doom loop; markets are an upward spiral."

This so-called techno-capital machine, with its unwavering belief in continuous evolution and progress, aligns itself with the power of intelligence and energy.