Marc Andreessen made a dire software prediction 15 years ago. Now it’s happening in a way nobody imagined
On Aug. 20, 2011, legendary venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published a blog post—and an accompanying essay in the Wall Street Journal —that would become the sacred texts of the Silicon Valley bull run. Titled “Why Software Is Eating the World,” he argued that the global economy was undergoing a “dramatic…
bubmagFebruary 13, 2026