Books

Why Decentralization? 

The answer comes in two books, The Master Switch by Tim Wu (2010) that dovetails perfectly into Read Write Own by Chris Dixon @cdixon.eth. I think anyone interested in the "why" of blockchain and decentralization, these two books as a whole provide the much needed color.

Crypto/web3. Author of Read Write Own

readwriteown.com

Atlanta Based Investments. Author of "Not Smart, Just Interested" on Substack (https://paperst.substack.com/)

Not financial advice.

Written in 2010, it ends with an attempt at a solution, but one which was just materializing at the time in blockchain technologies. 

That's where Chris's book provides the solution to the seemingly intractable problems of the past 100+ years of technological capture and centralization.

Tim's book is a deep dive in technological history within the US, which perfectly portrays how new technologies tend to start decentralized and naturally gravitate towards centralization. This occurs almost always by way of regulatory capture and at the expense of innovation and technological progress.