BOOK · [079]
Future Imperfect
Technology / Futurism
An economist's tour of how emerging technologies, especially cryptography and surveillance, will reshape the everyday world. Vitalik points to Friedman's 'compromise future' - physical surveillance balanced by cryptographic online privacy - as one of the clearest articulations of where things might land.
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Vitalik Buterin
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.