The Sovereign Individual ~ by James Dale Davidson and William Rees Morg

The Sovereign Individual is one of those books that forever changes how you see the world. It was published in 1997 but the degree to which it anticipates the impact of blockchain technology will give you chills. We're entering the fourth stage of human society, shifting from the industrial to an information age. You need to read this book to understand the scope and scale of how things are going to change.

As it becomes much easier to live comfortably and earn passive income anywhere, we already know that those who truly prosper in the new information age will be workers who are not tethered to a single job or career and are location independent. The pull to choose where to live based on price savings is more appealing, but this goes beyond digital nomadism and freelance gigs; the blocks of democracy, government and money are shifting.

The authors expected Black Tuesday and the fold of the Soviet Union, and here they foresee that the rising power of individuals will coincide with decentralized technology nibbling away at the power of governments. The death toll for the nation states, they expected with extraordinary prescience, will be private, digital cash. pancakeswap When that happens, the dynamic of governments as stationary bandits taking hard-working citizens with taxation changes. If you've become someone who can solve problems for people around the globe, then you're about to enter the new cognitive elite. Don't miss this one.

Choice Quotation: "When technology is mobile, and transactions occur on the net, as they increasingly will do, governments will not be able to charge more for their services than they are worth to the people who pay for them. inches

Sapiens: A brief history of Humankind ~ by Yuval Noah Harari

Whenever I want to impress on someone how good this book is, I ask: "Do you want to know the primary difference between humans and monkeys? A monkey can jump vertical on a rock and samsung wave s8500 a stubbornly hang on and screech to his friends that he's seen a threat coming their way. 'Danger! Danger! Lion! woul A monkey can also lie. It can jump vertical on the rock and samsung wave s8500 a stubbornly hang on and screech about a lion when there is, in fact, no lion. He's just fooling around. But what a monkey cannot do is jump vertical and samsung wave s8500 a stubbornly hang on and screech, 'Danger! Danger! Dragon! '"

Why is this? Because dragons aren't real. As Harari explains, it is human imagination, our capacity believe in and talk about things we have never seen or carressed that has elevated the species to come in thousands and thousands with unknown people. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human the law, no laws, no made use of and no justice not in the common imagination of human beings. It is us that makes them so.

All of which is a rather magnificent preamble to where we are today. After the Cognitive Innovation and the Lawn Innovation, Harari guides you into the Scientific Innovation, which got underway only 500 years ago and that might start something very different for humankind. Money, however, will remain. Read this book to understand that money is the greatest story ever told and that trust is the raw material from which every kind of money are minted.

Choice Quotation: "Sapiens, compared, live in triple-layered reality. In addition to timber, canals, fears and desires, the Sapiens world also contains stories about money, gods, nations and enterprises. inches

The internet of Money ~ by Andreas Meters. Antonopoulos

If the two books mentioned above help us to understand the historical context in which Bitcoin first appeared, then this book increases on the 'why' with infectious enthusiasm. Andreas Antonopolous could very well be the most respected voice in the crypto space. He's been traveling the world as a Bitcoin evangelist since 2010 and this book is a summary of discussions he gave on the rounds between 2013 and 2016, all tightened up for publication.

His first book, Mastering Bitcoin, is a technical deep-dive into the technology, aimed more specifically at developers, engineers, and software and systems architects. But this book uses some choice metaphors to elucidate why you can't ban Bitcoin or turn it off, how the running debate doesn't really matter and why Bitcoin needs assistance from designers to lock in mass usage.

"When you first ride your brand new automobile in a city, inches he writes, "you are riding on roads as used by horses with infrastructures designed and used for horses. There are no light signals. There are no road rules. There are no provided roads. And what happened? The cars got stuck because they didn't have balance and four feet. inches But fast forward one hundred years and the cars that were once ridiculed are absolutely typical. If you want to move around in the philosophical, social and historical significance of Bitcoin, this is your starting point.