Telecosm

Name: Telecosm
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: George Gilder
ISBN: 9781441799838

Author: George Gilder

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/14/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Technology & Engineering, Telecommunications

Synopsis

The computer age is over. After a global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosmthe world enabled and defined by new communications technology. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time.George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, famous for understanding and predicting complex technologies as well as for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change and what it means for our daily lives. He foresaw the power of fiber optics and wireless networks, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers; now, he brings you the bible of the new age of communications.

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 Larry

Tech-cheerleading companion to Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology. It interesting to see how the authors predictions have stood the test of time, 21 years later. Bandwidth is not so abundant as to be "too cheap to meter", as he put it (quoting claims from a generation earli......more

Goodreads review by Thomas

My review follows more than 15 years after reading the book. After reading an article in the Economist ([URL not allowed]) I picked up this book while the dot.com was bursting. I found a lot to like in it. Gilder's authoritative voice and unwavering faith in unlimited bandwidth wa......more

Goodreads review by Doug

HILARIOUS BOOK. This was pointed to me as "the" telecom bubble book, and it did not disappoint. It is freaking promotional and very new age-y. very good zeitgeist read if you were looking for what optimism in 1999 for the telecom / internet revolution felt like. That being said, meh book.......more

Goodreads review by Arthur

二十年前的趨勢書，如今讀來已是歷史。......more