Technology and society

How machines and economies grow so complex that they behave like living systems.

How humanity and technology together keep widening the opportunities open to people.

Work is splitting between those who work well with smart machines and the rest.

A forecast of a hugely connected future world, with its challenges and benefits.

The technology trends that will reshape daily life over the next thirty years.

Why the platform mattered politically, and what that cost it.

Why the US buys military power wrongly, and the case for cheap autonomous systems.

How trade and payment chokepoints became instruments of state coercion.

Insider manifesto by Palantir's CEO on tech and national power.

1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

Environmentalist case for nuclear power, dense cities and genetic engineering

The pay-TV smartcard hacking operation; the strangest corner of the empire.

Power in a networked age; connection as the source of advantage

How Israel's military tech, from drones to cyber, feeds its commercial industry.

Insider account by Microsoft's president on tech policy and regulation.

Argument that online communities can become sovereign; crypto-native politics

Insiders on Pentagon-Valley contracting where Palantir won

How to use prize competitions, crowdfunding and communities to go big.

A forecast of vast software models that mirror the real world and change society.

How a culture hands its judgement to machines, statistics and technical experts.

Alternating fiction and essay, a rewrite of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a new ending.

How the internet let amateurs topple old professions such as lawyers and stock gurus.

The long-run trends set to reshape economies and markets over the coming decades.

How the problem-solving and teamwork of games could solve real-world problems.

How the internet changed politics and economies in Iran, Estonia, Korea and Senegal.

The case that fast-improving technology will make scarce resources cheap.

How fleeing face-to-face talk harms relationships and work, and how to reclaim it.

How information networks, from the Stone Age to AI, have made and unmade societies.

Standalone edition of the 2023 a16z essay; Andreessen has written no conventional book

A manifesto for redesigning politics, government and the economy around human scale.

A print magazine on how people shape technology and how technology shapes them.