Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2024-02-28
Books mentioned on Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z’s co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. This week, Marc and Ben are joined by guest Chris Dixon to discuss his recent NY Times bestselling book “Read Write Own”, as well as the future of crypto, blockchain and Web3.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Read Write Own
Read Write Own by Chris Dixon is an exploration of blockchain technology, artificial intelligence, and the decentralized architecture shaping the future of the internet.
Recommended“and obviously of course anybody who hasn't read the book uh definitely should the book is available in physical bookstores the book's available on Kindle”
Where to get it
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani presents a leftist, techno-optimist vision of the future conditioned on humanity maintaining control over artificial intelligence and advanced technology.
Discussed“in various other communist regimes there was always this kind of idea there's actually a book on this from a from a from a modern communist called fully luxur fully automated luxury communism”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Read Write Own
“so what I want to do with the book so I I you know I've spent years talking about this topic and in in those conversations realized that um some of the sort of background context was missing”
Own book Read Write Own
“although one of the critiques of my book so far has been that RSS is actually very successful I it's not not successful at its original Vision at all”