Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2023-10-24

Books mentioned on Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist

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Last week, Marc Andreessen released his new vision for the future – “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/).

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

1. 

   Leviathan

   Thomas Hobbes · at 24:21

   Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes is a foundational 1751 political philosophy treatise that examines the structure of society and legitimate government authority, famously describing life in a state of nature as solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

   Discussed

   “Like nature really has it out for you, um, and if you're unprotected in a state of nature like it, you know, the old, the old thing is you know life and state of nature is, is is is what is it nasty, brutish and short, poor, solitary, nasty, brutish and short, Hobbes, yeah, exactly. And so so look technology,”

   Speaker Why It's Time to Be A Techno-Optimist 2023-10-24 Listen at 24:21

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