Books

Currently reading… The Sovereign Individual (1999)

“For the first time in history, information technology allows for the creation and protection of assets that lie entirely outside the realm of any individual government's territorial monopoly on violence”

Written 25 years ago.

 https://nook.social/content/33be3c41-12bc-44c9-992c-56418657373a

"No borders of legacy states were set up with the Internet in mind. They all assume people who live near each other share the same values, but they don’t anymore. Only social network neighbors do.

So: neither socialists nor nationalists have the conceptual framework to deal with the Internet, because all their ideas were developed when there was a land but no cloud."

In my opinion, @balajis.eth  continues the ideas and concepts set out in "The Sovereign Individual" and gives an updated/current version. (Adapted to current technological and political/social developments) 

My recommendation is if you read the book "The Sovereign Individual" also read/listen to Balaji's tweets and podcasts.

The Internet is a globally integrated market, and everyone really is in competition (and collaboration!) with everyone else.

After all: your followers are global, your customers are global, your supply chain is global, and your contractors are global.

Billions of people do…

Balaji

"No borders of legacy states were set up with the Internet in mind. They all assume people who live near each other share the same values, but they don’t anymore. Only social network neighbors do.

So: neither socialists nor nationalists have the conceptual framework to deal with the Internet, because all their ideas were developed when there was a land but no cloud."

In my opinion, @balajis.eth  continues the ideas and concepts set out in "The Sovereign Individual" and gives an updated/current version. (Adapted to current technological and political/social developments) 

My recommendation is if you read the book "The Sovereign Individual" also read/listen to Balaji's tweets and podcasts. 

https://x.com/balajis/status/1873734401097629883

Sapiens qui prospicit - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and religion.

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel..."