Stealing The Future
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Tech Utopians
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Watkins Media Limited
Publishing:11th Nov '25
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 11th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
When does a philosophy become a conspiracy?
Stealing the Future is the first book to tell the true and full story of Sam Bankman-Fried and his historic crimes. It chronicles the $11 billion FTX fraud with the detail and nuance of a financial fraud expert and cryptocurrency insider - but unlike any book before it, it also traces the ideas that enabled the crime. "Effective Altruism" and related tendencies, such as longtermism and transhumanism, remain dangerously influential in today's Silicon Valley. Despite Bankman-Fried's pose as a cuddly liberal philanthropist, they are now center stage in the global rise of the far right, and also lie at the heart of OpenAI, the tech darling that took FTX's place as the face of the future.
"Stealing the Future nails Sam Bankman-Fried for what he truly is: an overly-confident, ineffective and amoral narcissist."
– Paul Dylan-Ennis
"Sam Bankman-Fried was Bernie Madoff cosplaying as Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. 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."
– Marc Hochstein
“Stealing the Future 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.”
– Josh Cincinnati, President of the Interchain Foundation and Former Executive Director of the Zcash Foundation, cypherpunk and privacy advocate
ISBN: 9781917516082
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 369g
300 pages