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Books recommended by Vitalik Buterin from vitalik.eth.limo
This source supports 3 books recommended by Vitalik Buterin, including Future Imperfect, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, and The Art of Not Being Governed.
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Future Imperfect
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.
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
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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The Art of Not Being Governed
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.