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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Marc Andreessen
Posted October 16, 2023
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Marc Andreessen
entrepreneur · 8 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
Andreessen represents Silicon Valley's explicit articulation of techno-optimism as a governing ideology—the belief that technological progress is inherently good and should drive social organization. His 2023 manifesto appears in the course readings as a primary text exemplifying the techno-utopian worldview that the seminar critically examines alongside cybernetic and AI discourse, serving as a foil for understanding how venture capital frames technological inevitability and its relationship to power.
Background
Marc Lowell Andreessen is an American businessman, venture capitalist, and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first web browser to display inline images; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He co-founded and later sold the software company Opsware to Hewlett-Packard; he also co-founded Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. In 2024, he became an advisor to Donald Trump. As of June 2026, Forbes estimated Andreessen's net worth at $1.9 billion.
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Influence and variants. The TESCREAL bundle of ideologies has become enormously influential, especially within certain powerful corners of the tech industry. Current and former billionaires who subscribe to, or are associated with, one or m…Since we coined the term “TESCREAL,” a new variant of the ideologies in this group, called effective accelerationism (e/acc), has emerged. Effective accelerationists believe that the probability of a bad
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and t…59. Eliezer Yudkowsky Twitter post, archived on 13 February 2023, at https://web.archive.org/web/20230213224423/https://twitter.com/esyudkowsky/status/1131208777032560640, accessed 1 February 2024.
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The Techno-Optimist Manifesto
Marc Andreessen
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