/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54955254
It was funny to read that, but keep in mind that the concrete predictions do not really work as the authors have no idea what the technology of the future might be. A great example of this is how they envision digital cash as being backed by physical gold. Unbeknownst to them, digital scarcity would be first achieved with Bitcoin. And the list keeps going, 3d printing (including 3d printed firearms), internet centralization, problems with online identity verification, torrenting, whistleblowers all seem like trends that the authors simply couldn't have been aware of.

>>54966095
You might enjoy early chyperpunk writings as they have similar themes but with a clearly formulated ambition. The cyhperpunk manifesto is in the OP for starters, and their (at the time) very active mailing list has public archives
>https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki
I don't feel like an authoritative source on this, but I'm sure other anons can point to specific essays that are similar in nature or topics. Sadly, I don't know of any books existing.

>>54968530
>Wealth of Nations
Does seem too large to tackle in a simple weekly bookclub, plus it's a tad bit old so it doesn't have the most up-to-date ideas. What about "What Has Government Done to Our Money" by Murray N. Rothbard? It is relatively short (~112 pages in the pdf with a thin page width) and it does deal with monetary theory, (hyper)inflation, money, and the government's actions to the economy.