Is There a Filter Bubble?

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People who complain about filter bubbles are complaining that there's more than one. They want the isleof lucy environment of 19 50, where there's just one telephone company and two super powers and three television stations. That level of centralization of power was actually very typical through history. But what is missing is, essentially, the world's going to change. And i'm going to get a share of that new world by taking some risk in it.

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country, set for release July 4, 2022.

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