Life after Television, George Gilder
Life after Television, George Gilder
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Life after Television
The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

Author: George Gilder

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 2 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2014


Synopsis

In this remarkably prescient book, Gilder predicts how television will merge with other technologies and evolve into the telecomputer, a personal computer adapted for video processing and connected by fiberoptic threads to other personal computers around the world. This interactive system will change how we do business, educate our children, and spend our leisure time. It will imperil all large, centralized organizations, including broadcasting and cable networks, phone companies, government bureaucracies, and multinational corporations. But the United States has only to unleash its industrial resources to command the telefuture, in which new technology will overthrow the stultifying influence of mass media, renew the power of individuals, and promote democracy throughout the world.

About George Gilder

George Gilder is a journalist, New York Times bestselling author, and preeminent economic thinker who is credited with helping develop the supply-side economic theory. He has served as chairman of the Lehrman Institute's Economic Roundtable, was program director for the Manhattan Institute, and is cofounder of the Discovery Institute. He is the author of many popular books and has written for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Forbes, and other publications. He lives in New York with his wife.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Agnel

Steve Jobs predicted a new medium after TV, Google street view and voice recognition in 1983. Check it out at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Doug

This was an interesting read about the future of television and computers written in the early 90s. He was quite accurate about many things, and the things he was wrong about are instructive as well.......more

Goodreads review by Mystery

A guy who truly understands both technology and markets. This book is waaay underrated.......more