The phrase “touch grass” has become the internet’s way of telling someone to log off and rejoin the real world. Erik Torenberg, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, thinks the phrase has it exactly backward—and that getting the philosophy right has enormous economic consequences.
In a new essay published through a16z, Torenberg makes a sweeping argument: The internet isn’t encroaching on real life. It has become real life. And what looks like a cultural provocation is, on closer reading, a business thesis about where value will be created in an economy being remade by artificial intelligence.
