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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Economic history
Acemoglu and Johnson argue that technology only broadly benefits society when paired with countervailing political power, not by default. Vitalik invokes the book in his techno-optimism essay as the strongest articulation of why naive 'progress' isn't enough.
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Vitalik Buterin
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.