The Sovereign Individual takes as a starting point a roughly Thomas Friedman-esque “the internet flattens the world” and a set of predictions about technology that were prevalent in the 1990s. This is particularly true given the pointed nature of that book’s views, as I will highlight below. Intellectual standards are often quite limited in that world and it thus seems worth bringing a bit to bear on something that has gained such currency with so little real scrutiny.
However, I’ve become aware, thanks to Max Chafkin’s recent and compelling biography of Peter Thiel, of a book that is rarely read, especially in standard intellectual circles, but has been exceptionally influential in the world of technology. I have never written one of a book published more than two decades prior.
Sovereign Nonsense: A review of The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
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