A single book can change your life.

24 books that will put you ahead of the world (in 2024): 🧵 @alexisohanian @anafabrega11 @chaykak @NitaFarahany @emollick @ZachWeiner @jovialjoy 1. Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

by @cdixon

If you want to understand the most powerful technology in the world and learn how use it to succeed in the future.
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AI Twitter/X can be confusing.

WTF is e/acc, effective altruism, doomerism, safetyism, d/acc?

A thread with everything you need to know 🧵 EFFECTIVE ACCELERATIONISM - E/ACC

Pronounced “e-ack.”

A 21st-century philosophical movement advocating a techno-optimist stance.

Its proponents believe AI-driven progress is a great social equalizer which should be pushed forward.

Blockchain technology & web3 are the future.

But 99% are unaware.

Here's a list of 25 key terms so you can get up to speed: 1. AUTONOMOUS WORLD - an online game world that is built on a public blockchain.

It's a digital space owned and controlled not by a single, centralized entity but by a decentralized network of people.

It's a new genre in gaming.

Check out @0xPARC @Improbableio

With more than 5 billion users, the internet runs the world.

But in the 1990s, many thought it would fail. HUGE MISTAKE!

Here's what you need to know: FEB 27, 1995 - NEWSWEEK

The Internet? Bah!

"Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries, multimedia classrooms . . . virtual communities, commerce & business shifting from offices and malls to networks and modems. BALONEY." Clifford Stoll

A small group of the smartest technologists are already working in 2030.

They will soon run the world (& be worth $Trillions).

Here's what you need to know: These smart people are rebuilding the internet using blockchain technology.

They are transforming money, finance, securities, investing, gaming, music, events, privacy, science, and more.

Let's dive in!

The smartest 1% never stop learning.

If you want to succeed in the future, here's everything you need:

50 worldclass resources (all free) 👇 YOUTUBE CHANNELS

1. Big Think
2. MIT OpenCourseWare
3. TED-Ed
4. Khan Academy
5. Huberman Lab
6. Smart History
7. Crash Course
8. Veritasium
9. Kurzgesagt
10. freeCodeCamp

Links 👇

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Future of work - AI
Future of money - crypto
Future of finance - defi
Future of the internet - web3
Future of knowledge - AI
Future of learning - VR
Future of ownership - NFT
Future of real estate - tokenization
Future of privacy - ZK
Future of healthcare - precision medicine
🧵 The future is here & now.

Powerful converging technologies are transforming every aspect of how we think, work, & live.

By 2030, a wave of powerful DECENTRALIZING technologies will sweep the world.

It will transform every aspect of business, society, & life.

Here's what you need to know: We're in the midst of a massive global paradigm shift.

By 2030, tokenization of real-world assets will be a $16 TRILLION industry.

It will entirely transform real estate, private equity, stocks, bonds, and most forms of investing.

Here's what you need to know: The total tokenized market will be 10% of global GDP by 2030.

On the high end it could be worth as much as $68 trillion.

The future is happening. FAST.

The 1% who understand it will rule the world.

10 things you need to learn (starting today): Generative AI
Prompt Engineering
Extended Reality - VR & AR
The Metaverse
Asset Tokenization
Smart Contracts
Zero Knowledge & Privacy
UI/UX Design
Online Community Building
Computer Science

Web3 is the future—of the internet and the world.

Everyone must learn it.

Here are the top 2023 resources to learn web3 (for free): 1. Web3 and how we got here | @cdixon

100+ minutes that will forever change how you think about the internet.

If you want an incisive understanding of how web3 transforms the most powerful technological force on the planet☑️

The world has more than 8 billion people.

Less than 1% will be ready for 2030.

Here's a mega-thread to get you up to speed (starting today): We are now in the 4th Industrial Revolution:

A fusion of advances in exponential technologies that is remaking how we think, work, & live.

This is the age of AI.

You will only succeed if you have uniquely human, AI-proof skills.

Here's what you need to know: AI beats humans at speed, accuracy, & memory.

AI has long surpassed humans at chess, Go, and video games.

The future is already here.

The 1% who understand it will run the world.

Here's a list of 24 top resources to get up to speed (for free): ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

1. The TED Talks AI Playlist

The best of the 2023 Ted Talks AI including @YejinChoinka @tomgtgraham @GaryMarcus & @gdb

If you want to get smarter and better equipped to participate in any conversation on AI. ☑️

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Everyone is talking about ChatGPT.

Most have no idea that AI will soon massively disrupt their work & careers.

Here's what you need to know: Education

AI can:
- analyze a student's learning style & needs
- use sophisticated prompts to encourage deeper thinking
- remember a student's history
& provide personalized learning.

AI is about to upend everything we know about teaching and learning.
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I’ve been thinking about how GPT4 and other large language models will impact our daily lives.

There’s so much that’s still unclear. What we do know is that the big companies are already making changes.

They are replacing future jobs with AI.

And wherever and whenever possible, they will substitute machines for people.

With 100M users in 2 months, ChatGPT disrupted every major industry.

And this is just the beginning.

Here's a list of AI startups gunning to entirely transform how you think, work, & live: Scale AI @scale_AI

Collects, curates, & labels data—the fuel for AI models. ✔️

Site: scale.com

I write about the technologies that are shaping the future & help normal people get up to speed.

Here are some of my more popular threads: The 10 technologies shaping the future.

https://twitter.com/mishadavinci/status/1528368458894741505

By 2025, ChatGPT will destabilize hundreds of millions of white-collar jobs.

It could mean mass job loss for the highly educated.

Here's what you need to know: Historically, automation negatively impacted lower paid workers.

From robots to phone-answering systems, technology simply replaced factory workers, receptionists, and others.

But ChatGPT and other generative AI will disrupt knowledge workers and creatives.

AI is eating the world.

Humans are not ready.

12 videos in 12 days to update your brain for GPT4 & more: 1. TED | The Inside Story of ChatGPT’s Astonishing Potential by OpenAI cofounder @gdb

Learn how ChatGPT will soon automate the world and force you to rethink everything you do at work.

ChatGPT, Bing Chat, Google's Bard—AI is infiltrating the lives of billions.

The 1% who understand it will run the world.

Here's a list of key terms to jumpstart your learning: Artificial Intelligence (AI)

A machine’s ability to make decisions and perform tasks that simulate human intelligence and behavior.

Example: Siri can answer your questions and follow voice commands.