{"product_id":"stealing-the-future-isbn-9781917516082","title":"Stealing The Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen does a philosophy become a conspiracy?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2024, Sam Bankman-Fried — once hailed as the future of finance and one of the richest men in America — was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $11 billion and collapsing over a hundred companies. \u003ci\u003eStealing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is the inside story of that unraveling, told by a member of the CoinDesk team that first broke the case.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this is more than a true crime story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a journey into the tangled web of tech-utopianism, libertarian idealism, and the seductive ideologies of Silicon Valley — from Effective Altruism to transhumanism — that helped cloak one of the biggest financial frauds of the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs these philosophies increasingly fuel the global far right, \u003ci\u003eStealing the Future \u003c\/i\u003easks: what happens when abstract theories gain real power — and who’s really paying the price?\"\u003ci\u003eStealing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e nails Sam Bankman-Fried for what he truly is: an overly-confident, ineffective and amoral narcissist.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Paul Dylan-Ennis, \u003c\/b\u003eAssistant Professor, School of Business, University College Dublin\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Sam Bankman-Fried was Bernie Madoff cosplaying as Sheldon Cooper from \u003ci\u003eThe Big Bang Theory\u003c\/i\u003e. Too many people who should have known better fell for his act, enabling one of the largest financial frauds in American history. The inimitable David Z. Morris offers a high-minded take on this tragic farce, exploring the wide-eyed philosophies that SBF used (and perhaps twisted) to rationalize his destructive behavior.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Marc Hochstein, \u003c\/b\u003eVice President for Research, Galaxy Digital; Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief, \u003ci\u003eCoinDesk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“\u003ci\u003eStealing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e explores the past to explain a present beset by futurists... It’s a plea for us to resist that fraud, and indeed, the grander fraud at the core of our society today: that the elites know better than us.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– Josh Cincinnati, \u003c\/b\u003ePresident of the Interchain Foundation and Former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation, cypherpunk and privacy advocate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Among the most important books of the year.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e– The American Prospect\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Z. Morris\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most respected and longstanding journalists covering cryptocurrency. He was part of the team at CoinDesk that exposed and brought down Sam Bankman-Fried. As a staff writer at Fortune he coveredTesla and a variety of tech firms, and has written about technology for The Atlantic, Slate, and Aeon.","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233583280357,"sku":"NP9781917516082","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781917516082.jpg?v=1767737293","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/stealing-the-future-isbn-9781917516082","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}