Table of Contents

Breaking Smart: How Software is Eating the World

  1. Introduction (by Marc Andreessen)
  2. A New Soft Technology
  3. Getting Reoriented
  4. Towards a Mass Flourishing
  5. Purists versus Pragmatists
  6. Agility and Illegibility
  7. Rough Consensus and Maximal Interestingness
  8. Running Code and Perpetual Beta
  9. Software as Subversion
  10. Prometheans and Pastoralists
  11. The Allure of Pastoralism
  12. Understanding Elite Discontent
  13. The Principle of Generative Pluralism
  14. The Future in the Rear-View Mirror
  15. A Tale of Two Computers
  16. The Immortality of Bits
  17. Tinkering versus Goals
  18. The Zemblanity of Containers
  19. Free as in Beer, and as in Speech
  20. The Serendipity of Streams
  21. Breaking Smart
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