> There is a special pain in seeing ideas you believe in deformed for such purposes. Andreessen and I are not that far apart on some of the basics. For years, I’ve been arguing for politics to take technology more seriously, to see new inventions as no less necessary than social insurance and tax policy in bringing about a worthier world. Too often, we debate only how to divvy up what we already have. We have lost the habit of imagining what we could have; we are too timid in deploying the coordinated genius and muscle of society to pull possibilities from the far future into the near present.
This isn't just some anti-tech screed; Ezra Klein writes a fair amount about the "abundance agenda" of a better future and that per force includes technology. But it's not as simple as "tech - good, anything that stands in the way of any tech - bad".