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The Means Of Destruction
28 November 2023
6 July 2020
Investing in strategic digital technologies in Central Europe will help us overcome the crisis, protect against the next one and ensure our security.
Why do we not have therapies or a vaccine, let alone respirators and lung ventilators? We could have had all of that, but we said no. We chose not to have the mechanisms, the factories, the systems to make these things. We chose not to build.
No, there are not the words of an agitator of an ultra-left, communist militia, but spoken by Marc Andreessen, one of the most influential and richest investors in Silicon Valley.
He is the man who made the Internet browser as we know it and who, with his superfluous company, stands behind companies like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Foursquare, GitHub, Pinterest and many others. He wrote a comment entitled “It’s time to build”.