On: Andreessen: 'In 20 years, every physical item will...

[mdonahoe]

I am reminded of this Thoreau quote:

"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."

[sixbrx → mdonahoe]

Industrial grade condescension, sounds like Thoreau all right. He could have maybe found real wilderness at either of those places, but then mom wouldn't have been able to bring cookies and do laundry weekly.

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum