The Techno-Optimist and the Lonely Man of Faith

Humans are more than builders. Andreessen overlooks that.

Writer and teacher Philip Graubart reflects on Zoom classrooms during the pandemic, and the problems it poses for manifestos like Marc Andreessen’s…

“We … discovered what had been obvious to any teacher trying to connect through a screen: we hadn’t gotten through. We’d taught almost nothing. It turns out you need full facial connection to teach. The tech…