Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing High Valuations

Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by jval on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:26AM (#7580339)

2024: a post-industrial dystopia where the global economy runs on a cryptocurrency called 'Bitcoin', people wear computers on their faces and the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news.

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by declan on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:41PM (#7583189)

Good line! But in reality -- speaking as a former journalist and a founder of a new SF bay area startup that's in the same business -- news organizations have done this kind of thing forever.

One journalistic function is ingesting a tremendous amount of information, then filter it -- so people reading the WSJ's venture capital blog can bookmark it and read only articles that are relevant. A generation ago it might have been highlighting the best news stories in the trade press. Today it's subscribing to the Twitter feeds of dozens or hundreds of VCs (including Marc A.). Highlighting the best ones provides a valuable service.

Of course the HN-relevant question then becomes: can this be better done, or equally well done for less $$$, algorithmically. :)

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by apu on Sunday April 13, 2014 @03:37AM (#7580607)

the Wall Street Journal has been reduced to reprinting tweets as news

Why 2024? I've already seen this happening for the last few years, where the established press takes original content/reporting/etc. from online sources (blogs/etc.) with scant attribution.

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by vidarh on Sunday April 13, 2014 @03:50AM (#7580624)

I particularly "love" [1] articles where they take screenshots of a bunch of tweets, and present them with interspersed commentary, rather than actually writing a coherent narrative. Guess it makes it easier to recruit "journalists" when you don't need to worry about whether most of them finished high-school.

[1] for certain values of "love"

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by mjcohen on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:48PM (#7582952)

I often enjoy these kind of articles, especially when the interpolated comments give me information and ways to look at things I did not previously have.

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by catshirt on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:40AM (#7580368)

the only real prediction here is that bitcoin will be a standard global currency :)

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by ChrisGaudreau on Sunday April 13, 2014 @02:56AM (#7580513)

Pretty sure that honor goes to Dogecoin, but nice try. :)

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by paul_f on Sunday April 13, 2014 @09:43AM (#7581280)

Nah, it will be a competition between GoogBucks and iMoney. With Google eventually winning. They always do.

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by gress on Sunday April 13, 2014 @11:25AM (#7581575)

They'll win, but they won't make any money from it and nobody else will. This will keep happening with industry after industry, until there is nobody to buy advertising from Google. Then society will fall.

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by leoc on Sunday April 13, 2014 @08:07AM (#7581066)

Everywhere you go, the face of the Leader placed high on giant placards and banners...

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Re:Andreessen: Beware Non-Silicon Valley Investors Bearing H... by benjamincburns on Sunday April 13, 2014 @05:42AM (#7580819)

You missed out on so many upvotes by not going with 2048...

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