Tomorrow’s advance man

The New Yorker’s Tad Friend on Marc Andreessen’s plan to win the future.

Pessimism always sounds more sophisticated than optimism — it’s the Eden-collapse myth over and over again — and then you look at G.D.P. per capita worldwide, and it’s up and to the right. If this is collapse, let’s have more of it!

• Marc Andreessen
• Tad Friend