{"id":5536,"date":"2013-11-24T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T20:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T20:50:44","slug":"andreessen-on-automotive-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5536","title":{"rendered":"Andreessen on Automotive Disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2013\/11\/21\/marc-andreessen\/\">Andy Serwer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>But people love their cars. They have their stuff in their cars, the car seats for their baby, their Frisbees, their golf clubs\u2014it&#8217;s their second home. People aren&#8217;t going to give that up, are they?<\/ strong><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Ask a kid. Take teenagers 20 years ago and ask them would they rather have a car or a computer? And the answer would have been 100% of the time they&#8217;d rather have a car, because a car represents freedom, right?<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Today, ask kids if they&#8217;d rather have a smartphone or a car if they had to pick and 100% would say smartphones. Because smartphones represent freedom. There&#8217;s a huge social behavior reorientation that&#8217;s already happening. And you can see it through that. And I&#8217;m not saying nobody can own cars. If people want to own cars, they can own cars. But there is a new generation coming where freedom is defined by &#8220;I can do anything I want, whenever I want. If I want a ride, I get a ride, but I don&#8217;t have to worry. I don&#8217;t have to make car payments. I don&#8217;t have to worry about insurance. I have complete flexibility.&#8221; That is freedom too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Serwer: But people love their cars. They have their stuff in their cars, the car seats for their baby, their Frisbees, their golf clubs\u2014it&#8217;s their second home. People aren&#8217;t going to give that up, are they?&nbsp;&nbsp;Ask a kid. Take teenagers 20 years ago and ask them would they rather have a car or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}