Bits Can Move Atoms

Res Extensa #39 :: How software (and ideas themselves) move things in the physical world

In this interview from a while back in Noah Smith's newsletter, Marc Andreessen made some interesting observations about the "alchemy of software".

Asked about the future of technology, he responds to the common criticism that tech often gives us progress in the virtual, but not physical world:

Software is a lever on the real world.

Someone writes code, an…