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If we act now, we can make sure that democratic values—freedom of speech, individual economic privacy, free enterprise, and free capital markets—are encoded in the digital future of money.
J. Christopher Giancarlo, Cameron Winklevoss, • CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money
megalopolis endured three of the ten most costly national disasters since the Civil War.
Mike Davis • Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Globalization
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The growth machine has pushed humans beyond the limits of our minds—but it is also pushing the planet beyond its ecological limits.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more