Peter Thiel
Co-founded PayPal and Palantir, was Facebook's first outside investor, and is a partner at Founders Fund. Wrote Zero to One with Blake Masters.
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13 Apr 2009
Our reading
Their wordsIn our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms — from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called “social democracy.”
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13 Apr 2009
Our reading
Their wordsBecause there are no truly free places left in our world, I suspect that the mode for escape must involve some sort of new and hitherto untried process that leads us to some undiscovered country; and for this reason I have focused my efforts on new technologies that may create a new space for freedom.
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13 Apr 2009
Our reading
Their wordsThe future of technology is not pre-determined, and we must resist the temptation of technological utopianism — the notion that technology has a momentum or will of its own, that it will guarantee a more free future, and therefore that we can ignore the terrible arc of the political in our world.
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13 Apr 2009
Our reading
Their wordsA better metaphor is that we are in a deadly race between politics and technology. The future will be much better or much worse, but the question of the future remains very open indeed.