Der Absturz von Big Data und der Aufstieg der Blockchain
Erst einmal Google fragen! Die Suchmaschine ist aus dem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken – und sie ist völlig kostenlos. Nicht ganz, meint George Gilder. Denn: Der Google-Kunde ist gläsern, er bezahlt mit seinen Daten, wird mit Werbung überschwemmt. Und zu allem Überfluss hebeln Bots und Malware die Internetsicherheit aus. Genau aus diesen Gründen steht das Geschäftsmodell von Google, aufgebaut auf Big Data und finanziert durch Werbeeinnahmen, vor dem Aus. An seine Stelle tritt die Blockchain-Technologie, die das Internet revolutionieren und damit die großen Internetfirmen unserer Zeit in Bedrängnis bringen wird. Gilder beschreibt diesen fundamentalen Umbruch und zeigt auf, wie die Welt nach Google aussehen wird: sicherer, werbefrei und kostenpflichtig.
In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency.
Legendary economist, investor, tech philosopher, and public treasure George Gilder argues that a hard-driving culture of entrepreneurial ideas is now in conflict with a growing mindset of government regulation combined with a total surrender of the individual imagination. The winner of this battle may determine a new paradigm of economics and thought for the next century, whether we like it or not.Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom.Gilder breaks away from the supply-side model of economics to present a new economic the epic conflict between the knowledge of entrepreneurs on one side, and the blunt power of government on the other. The knowledge of entrepreneurs, and their freedom to share and use that knowledge, are the sparks that light up the economy and set its gears in motion. The power of government to regulate, stifle, manipulate, subsidize or suppress knowledge and ideas is the inertia that slows those gears down, or keeps them from turning at all.One of the twentieth century’s defining economic minds has returned with a new philosophy to carry us into the twenty-first. Knowledge and Power is a must-read for fiscal conservatives, business owners, CEOs, investors, and anyone interested in propelling America’s economy to future success.
Meet Mitchell "Sam" Brewer. Young. African-American. An ex-Marine with charm and intelligence. Highly valued by his employers in his state job. Yet Sam repeatedly gets into trouble - much of it the kind that lands him in hospitals and police stations. George Gilder, one of the most important sociopolitical authors of our time, brings us a life in which the ultimate trap is not racism, but the very system that's meant to help. Not since Claude Brown's "Manchild in the Promised Land" has there been such a forthright, unvarnished, and humanizing portrait of life and struggle for young African-American men in the inner city.From the author's new introduction decrying the lack of vision in welfare reform to the chilling postscript on the story's protagonist, "Visible Man" rings even more disturbingly true today than when it was first published.
The narrative explores the dynamic world of Silicon Valley, highlighting the interplay of genius, ambition, and serendipity that fuels the rise of startups into major corporations. Through George Gilder's insider perspective, readers are introduced to a cast of brilliant and eccentric innovators driving significant changes in the tech industry. The book captures the excitement and unpredictability of this landscape, offering an engaging look at the personalities and stories behind technological breakthroughs.
Israel is the crucial battlefield for Capitalism and Freedom in our time. George Gilder's global best-seller Wealth and Poverty made the moral case for capitalism. Now Gilder makes the case for Israel, portraying a conflict of barbarism and envy against civilization and creativity. Gilder reveals Israel as a leader of human civilization, technological progress, and scientific advance. Tiny Israel stands behind only the United States in its contributions to the hi-tech economy. Israel has become the world's paramount example of the blessings of freedom. Hatred of Israel, like anti-Semitism through history, arises from resentment of Jewish success. Rooted in a Marxist zero-sum-game theory of economics, this vision has fueled the anti-Semitic rantings of Hitler, Arafat, Osama, and history's other notorious haters. Faced with a contest between murderous regimes sustained by envy and Nazi ideology, and a free, prosperous, and capitalist, Israel—whose side are you on?
For more than two hundred years, capitalism spread wealth around the globe, bringing unprecedented prosperity and progress, liberating human potential. But something has gone terribly wrong in the world economy. The bestselling futurist and venture capitalist George Gilder explains why economics is not an incentive system to be manipulated but an information system to be freed. Material resources are essentially as plentiful as the atoms of the universe. What drives economic growth in a free market is our limitless human ingenuity and creativity.
Google's algorithms assume the world's future is nothing more than the next
moment in a random process. George Gilder shows how deep this assumption goes,
what motivates people to make it, and why it's wrong: the future depends on
human action. - Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies and
author of Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future If you
want to be clued in to the unfolding future, then you have come to the right
place. For decades, George Gilder has been the undisputed oracle of
technology's future. Are giant companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook the
unstoppable monopolistic juggernauts that they seem, or are they dysfunctional
giants about to be toppled by tech-savvy, entrepreneurial college dropouts? -
Nick Tredennick, Ph.D., Chief Scientist, QuickSilver Technology The Age of
Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era.
But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder-the peerless
visionary of technology and culture-explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a
nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's
astonishing ability to search and sort attracts the entire world to its search
engine and countless other goodies-videos, maps, email, calendars....And
everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly,
users submit to advertising. The system of aggregate and advertise works-for a
while-if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices
strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The
crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence
induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty
much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all
those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The
crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture.
The future lies with the cryptocosm-the new architecture of the blockchain and
its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and
Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system,
ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long
dominated by a few giants, faces a great unbundling, which will disperse
computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet. Life
after Google is almost here. For fans of Wealth and Poverty, Knowledge and
Power, and The Scandal of Money.