Prominent venture and tech thinkers are packaging techno‑optimism into an explicit political and cultural program that argues technology and productivity growth should be the central organizing value of public policy. That program will seek to reorient debates over regulation, climate, industrial policy, education, and redistribution toward growth‑first solutions and to build institutional coalitions to implement those priorities.
— If this converts from manifesto into an organised movement (funds, think‑tanks, personnel pipelines), it will reshape who sets the terms of major policy fights—tilting incentives toward rapid permitting, pro‑growth industrial policy, and deregulatory arguments across multiple domains.
2026.01.05
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Marc Andreessen’s Substack 'The Techno‑Optimist Manifesto' (Oct 16, 2023) is an explicit recruitment document by a high‑profile tech investor that frames growth as moral and technology as the primary lever.
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