Book · 2001 · Fiction
The Light of Other Days
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There is this great book, I've mentioned it in the past, by Steven Baxter and Arthur Clark called the light of other days and it's all about how basically all the world's information becomes available to everyone.
Jason Calacanis · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Feb 2026 Listen at 13:00 The best things said about it
I think i've referred to this book called the light of other days before when we talked i think so right yeah um the book is like all about this notion of all information that's available to everyone everywhere.
David Friedberg All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Oct 2021 There's a there's a book by a guy named steven baxter was a science fiction book from years ago and arthur clark called the light of other days and these guys developed wormhole technology they could put it in any house and they could see and listen to everything.
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The Light of Other Days is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. Jason Calacanis mentioned the book on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg to illustrate a point about privacy and the public disclosure of private communications. He noted that it is one of his favorite sci-fi books and even sent copies to his investors. David Friedberg also brought up the work on the same podcast to describe a hypothetical world characterized by hyper-transparency, driven by wormhole technology that allows total information availability. David Sacks similarly discussed the novel on All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, highlighting the futuristic wormhole technology depicted in the story that enables people to see and listen to everything happening inside any house. The speakers frequently returned to this narrative to examine how radical losses of privacy could reshape society, governance, and human behavior. They emphasized that the book serves as a striking cautionary tale about a future where all the world's information becomes completely accessible to everyone everywhere, altering social norms permanently.
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Jason Calacanis There is this great book, I've mentioned it in the past, by Steven Baxter and Arthur Clark called the light… 2
“There is this great book, I've mentioned it in the past, by Steven Baxter and Arthur Clark called the light of other days and it's all about how basically all the world's information becomes available to everyone.”
“there's a a book by stephen baxter called the light of other days it's one of my favorite sci-fi books i sent it out to all of my investors this last uh we do like a book thing every year and i reread it recently”
David Friedberg i think i've referred to this book called the light of other days before when we talked i think so right ye… 1
“i think i've referred to this book called the light of other days before when we talked i think so right yeah um the book is like all about this notion of all information that's available to everyone everywhere”
David Sacks there's a there's a book by a guy named steven baxter was a science fiction book from years ago and arthur… 1
“there's a there's a book by a guy named steven baxter was a science fiction book from years ago and arthur clark called the light of other days and these guys developed wormhole technology they could put it in any house and they could see and listen to everything”
