James Dale Davidson · 1997
A political and economic forecast arguing that information technology would lead to the decentralization of the nation-state.
Peter Thiel credits it with deeply influencing his perspective on the decentralizing trajectory of the information age.
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“Yeah, so I was extremely influenced by the Reese Mock Davidson book, 1997, The Sovereign Individual, where the thesis was, let's say, the computer technology information age was trending in this very deeply decentralizing libertarian way.”
Why: It deeply influenced his views on the decentralizing trajectory of the information age.
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