Exploring the Transformation of the Digital Economy: How Blockchain is Redefining Data and Business in the Post-Google Era

Walter M. Nichols: Worth the read. I plan on going through it's pages again.

Canada on Nov 18, 2022

Alberto: I can only say... this is scary and gives you a lot to think of. It is a book we will be looking back in time in some 20 years and go "He did warn us though". Beautiful.

Mexico on May 18, 2022

Pooja: The book was very technical and it lacked flow.

Canada on Oct 30, 2021

John Walker: In his 1990 book  Life after Television , George Gilder predicted that the personal computer, then mostly boxes that sat on desktops and worked in isolation from one another, would become more personal, mobile, and be used more to communicate than to compute. In the 1994 revised edition of the book, he wrote. “The most common personal computer of the next decade will be a digital cellular phone with an IP address … connecting to thousands of databases of all kinds.” In contemporary speeches he expanded on the idea, saying, “it will be as portable as your watch and as personal as your wallet; it will recognize speech and navigate streets; it will collect your mail, your news, and your paycheck.” In 2000, he published  Telecosm , where he forecast that the building out of a fibre optic communication infrastructure and the development of successive generations of spread spectrum digital mobile communication technologies would effectively cause the cost of communication bandwidth (the quantity of data which can be transmitted in a given time) to asymptotically approach zero, just as the ability to pack more and more transistors on microprocessor and memory chips...

United States on Mar 17, 2020

Andrew: A must-read for anyone interested in DLT. Very detailed and well laid out.

Canada on Dec 23, 2018

Ricky: George Gilder is one of the big thinkers on our planet right now. In this book he argues that we are leaving the world of google ‘big data’ and entering the world of ‘blockchain’. That is, we are moving away from the world where all our data is centrally held by the technology companies, in favour of our data being held by the individual. Blockchain provides financially-secure, crypto-currency technology that hands back power to the individual, while allowing all financial transactions to be transparently evidenced on the internet.
Gilder refers to Sir Isaac Newton as developing a ‘system of the world’, which not only accounted for the laws of physics but also for developing a gold-standard. It led to the wealth of the British Empire. Google and other tech companies have developed a second ‘system of the world’, which has led to the rise of globalism and invested power in the hand of organisations such as google. This has been referred to as ‘Google Marxism’.
Block chain technology fixes the faults in an internet that was never constructed to handle financial transactions securely. It also puts ‘Individualism’ rather than ‘collectivism’ back on...

United Kingdom on Nov 09, 2018

Mark Vande Pol: I have had a long appreciation for George Gilder. We might have been friends, having the same sort of eclectic interests albeit from entirely different set structures. This reminds me of Doug Hofstadter’s Gödel Escher Bach, The Eternal Golden Braid, which I read back in the early ‘80s just to keep myself sane whilst seeking an engineering bachelor’s at the wrong end of a fire hose like Harvey Mudd. Accordingly, in 1985 I wrote my senior humanities thesis on the psychological archetypes making a potential union between human mind and computer a catastrophic singularity appropriately titled MANIAC.

I had run across Mr. Gilder’s work at the Discovery Institute some 20 years ago while writing my first book proposing a system of free-market environmental management to which, as a libertarian, he is predisposed. So I was really pleased to see Mr. Gilder showing up on various talk shows centering on some of those same objections I’d had about where AI was going as a student, specifically for those who consider their own minds to be information processing machines seeking deterministic outcomes. Anyone with the humility to respect mightily the depth of human ignorance...

United States on Aug 30, 2018