Marc Andreessen
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The a16z Show · Marc Andreessen: Monitoring the Situation and the Future of Media · 21 Apr 2026
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I saw what it was like, and this was like that.
Everybody knows everybody else.
By the way, it's the same people year after year after year.
You get to know them way too well.
Everybody's completely up in each other's business.
There's basically no privacy.
And by the way, one of the reasons people leave small towns to go to the big city is because they want to get away from that.
They want to get to a level of anonymity and have a lot more people running around.
But the village kind of has that specific thing.
And what he said was basically modern media is going to turn the entire world into a village.
And so you're just going to be connected.
And this is, you know, pre-internet when he said this, right?
But, you know, it's really happened with the internet where it's just like, okay, you're connected to everybody all the time.
And by the way, like by default, you know, he would find this to be like a very entertaining thing that is actually happening because he would say, of course, you're getting all the downstream effects that you're getting, which is fantastic.
By default, it's going to melt your brain, right?
Like the human animal was not evolved.
The human animal was evolved to have like, you know, it's a Dunbar's number.
You can basically have a direct relationship with like 150 people, sort of famously called the Dunbar number in sociology.
But the global village expects you to have a Dunbar number of like 8 billion people, right?
Because they're all right there and they're all up in your grill, right?
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