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David D. Friedman

In 'My techno-optimism,' Vitalik points readers to Friedman's Future Imperfect for its prediction of a compromise future where physical life is more surveilled but cryptography preserves online privacy.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson

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.

James C. Scott

Vitalik cites Scott's book in 'My techno-optimism' when discussing how communities in Zomia structured themselves to evade state control - an analogy he uses for crypto and d/acc.