Marc Andreessen: "Darwin has kicked in"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Marc Andreessen, founder of Internet pioneer Netscape and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, to talk about the early days of the Internet (2:45), the "absurd" power of the web giants (7:30), delivery robots (10:45), the ease of starting an web company today (12:00), the ideal time to invest (15:00), the truth about artificial intelligence (16:30), the “luddite” panic (25:45), industries tech is aiming for next (33:00), why the answer to our problems is more technology (36:00), whether the big Internet companies are too big (37:30), why he told Mark Zuckerberg to turn down a takeover from Yahoo (39:30), how he's not worried about screen time for his 2-year-old son (43:10), and why the disruption of all human activity is only just getting started (44:45).

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0:32.5	Yo, technology.
0:35.5	What is it all about?
0:37.0	When Mark Andreessen created Netscape, the internet browser that ignited the dot-com boom, the world was a very different place.
0:44.3	Just 20 million people were connected to what was more popularly known way back in 1994 as the World Wide Web.
0:52.3	It was so primitive that most people had to log on, download their email, and then log off.
0:57.0	Continuous connection was a luxury few people had.
1:01.0	Today, 23 years on, nearly half the planet is online, and entire industries are being swept aside by the great leveling power of the internet.
1:11.6	But that was only chapter one.
1:14.6	So what happens next? Where do we go from here?
1:17.6	This week on Danny in the Valley, we have brought on other than Mark Andreessen himself to do some future gazing with us.
1:24.6	If you can tell what's a cat in a photo, then, by the way, then maybe you can tell what's
1:29.0	a tumor in an MRI, right, better than a person, right?
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