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If you have never read it, please reconsider. I understand, it's already 25 years old book and it isn't perfect but they got many things right. Like describing Bitcoin in 1997:
In the Information Age, individuals will be able to use cyber currencies and thus declare their monetary independence. When individuals can conduct their own monetary policies over the World Wide Web it will matter less or not at all that the state continues to control the industrial-era printing presses. Their importance for controlling the world’s wealth will be transcended by mathematical algorithms that have no physical existence. In the new millennium, cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede fiat money issued by governments. Only the poor will be victims of inflation and ensuing collapses into deflation that are consequences of the artificial leverage which fiat money injects into the economy.
Love the recommendation and reminder.
I've got a lengthy summary of the book here on StackerNews, for those looking for a taster 👀
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I read this last year and it's crazy how much they got right. For me, it also seriously enforced the importance of learning relevant history. The predictions in the book are based on the path humans have been tracing through time and then imagining where we'll be - given that historical path - farther into the future.
I'm sad to say up until the last few years I loathed studying history. Given trad schooling, I understood history as the study of military battles and international relations. It caused me to completely miss the advantage of studying the history of technology.
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Very true. “The further you look into the past, the further you can see into the future.” - Winston Churchill
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People don't want to read good stuff. They read only gov war propaganda and bullshit news about shitcoins. Most of the people do not want to be educated and well informed, they just prefer to "follow x and y" and do what those said.
We are living the sheeps era.
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I have so many "Bitcoin" books to read that I don't think I'll ever finish them. This is on my back shelf to read some day. When I used to work at the office, I would listen to audio books and finish maybe 2 books a month. That's the only thing I miss about commuting an hour each way to work before I moved to fully remote.
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I hear you. Always have 5-8 Bitcoin related books lined up.
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Yes. Whoever mentions Sapiens, I suggest this one
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