If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
Marc AndreessenTechnology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.
Marc AndreessenMore and more major industries are being run on software and delivered as online servicesโfrom movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.
Marc AndreessenGoogle is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
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