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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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Acemoglu and Johnson argue that technology only broadly benefits society when paired with countervailing political power, not by default. Vitalik invokes the book in his techno-optimism essay as the strongest articulation of why naive 'progress' isn't enough.
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Vitalik references Acemoglu and Johnson's Power and Progress in 'My techno-optimism' as a key argument that technology only broadly benefits society when paired with countervailing power.
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