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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Nothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever introduced at anything else lower than the fullest philosophical decibel... Mr. Gilder sounds much less like a tech guru than a poet, and his phrases tumble out in a romantic cascade.”
“Google’s algorithms think the sector’s long run is not anything greater than the following second in a random procedure. George Gilder displays how deep this assumption is going, what motivates other people to make it, and why it’s incorrect: The long run will depend on human motion.” — Peter Thiel, founding father of PayPal and Palantir Applied sciences and writer of 0 to One: Notes on Startups, or Tips on how to Construct the Future
The Age of Google, constructed on massive knowledge and machine intelligence, has been an incredible era. However it’s coming to an finish. In Existence after Google, George Gilder—the peerless visionary of era and tradition—explains why Silicon Valley is struggling a anxious breakdown and what to anticipate because the put up-Google age dawns.
Google’s marvelous talent to “seek and kind” draws all of the international to its seek engine and numerous different candies—movies, maps, electronic mail, calendars….And the whole thing it provides is unfastened, or so it sort of feels. As an alternative of paying right away, customers post to promoting. The machine of “combination and put it on the market” works—for a whilst—if you happen to regulate an empire of information facilities, however a marketplace with out costs strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Web right into a desolate tract of commercials.
The situation is not only financial. While advances in synthetic intelligence result in delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has just about given up on safety. The Web firewalls supposedly protective all the ones passwords and private knowledge have proved hopelessly permeable.
The situation can’t be solved throughout the present pc and community structure. The long run lies with the “cryptocosm”—the brand new structure of the blockchain and its derivatives. Allowing cryptocurrencies akin to bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it is going to give you the Web a protected world bills machine, finishing the mixture-and-put it on the market Age of Google.
Silicon Valley, lengthy ruled via a couple of giants, faces a “nice unbundling,” on the way to disperse pc Energy and trade and develop into the economic system and the Web.
Existence after Google is nearly right here.
For fanatics of “Wealth and Poverty,” “Wisdom and Energy,” and “The Scandal of Cash.”
