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How We Got Here:
A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets
by Andy Kessler
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Expanding on themes first raised in his tour-de-force, Running Money, Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the industrial revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut [by an unscrupulous editor] from the original manuscript were intended as a Primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments.
Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student at Cornell or on the day he started on Wall Street. In the style of James Burke, it connects the dots through history to how we got to where we are today. Presented with his trademark wit and smart-ass assessments, How We Got Here offers readers an original and refreshing look at history.
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Silicon Eye
by George Gilder
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George Gilder goes behind the scenes at a cutting-edge technology company poised to change the way computers see. Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywhere—PDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information technology, and Federico Faggin, inventor of the CPU—the chip that runs every computer.
George Gilder has covered the wizards of high tech for twenty-five years and has an insider's knowledge of Silicon Valley and the unpredictable mix of genius, drive, and luck that can turn a startup into a Fortune 500 company. The Silicon Eye is a rollicking narrative of some of the smartest—and most colorful—people on earth and their race to transform an entire industry. 12 illustrations.
"A compelling narrative that reads like a brilliant detective story with deep insights into the concept of designing our technology." --
Ray Kurzweil, artificial-intelligence innovator and author of The Age of Intelligent Machines
Telecosm:
The World After Bandwidth Abundance
By
George Gilder
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The supreme abundance
of the telecosm is the electromagnetic spectrum, embracing all the
universe of vibrating electrical and magnetic fields, from power line
pulses through light beams to cosmic rays. The scarcity that unlocks
this abundance is the supreme scarcity in physical science: the absolute
minimum time it takes to form an electromagnetic wave of a particular
length. Set by the permeability of free space, this minimal span determines
the speed of light.
Microcosm
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Taking the reader inside the tiniest computer chips as well as the greatest
minds of Silicon Valley, George Gilder explores the unrecognized technological
and entrepreneurial revolution we are now experiencing, one which is creating
unprecedented opportunities for business and technology. Microcosm contains
vivid accounts of the latest inventions and revealing portraits of the
leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs at the frontiers of knowledge.
Published by Simon & Schuster in 1989.
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Wealth
and Poverty
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Wealth and Poverty
is a phenomenon a bestseller that is also one
of the most important books of its kind for decades. In his bold and
brilliant work George Gilder already widely known for the originality
of his mind and the verve of his prose ó provides a fresh and
illuminating study of what is perhaps the most critical problem of contemporary
society: how to increase wealth and curtail poverty.
First published by Basic Books in 1981.
Current edition by ICS Press.
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Life
After Television
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Television
has long been identified as a dead hand on culture; but
as George Gilder so brilliantly reveals here, this centralized,
authoritarian
institution is also a dying technology whose grip on our imaginative
and economic life threatens to impede America's competitiveness in the
next century. Gilder's optimistic message is that the U.S. 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.
First published in 1990 by Whittle Books. Currently
published by W.W. Norton & Co.
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Recapturing
the Spirit of Enterprise
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Entrepreneurship,
to George Gilder, is more than an economic activity. It is a way of life.
The same spirit of enterprisethe impulse to
freedom and self-governancethat animates people to originate bold
new products and services, to devote the fruits of their talents, energies,
and acumen to improving the material well-being of their fellows, also
guides their engagement in the other workings of society. Among the images
that fill this book, perhaps none is more inspiring than the group portrait
of the Cuban immigrants in Miami, eho in barely thirty years have created
one of America's showplaces ó an economically innovative, civically
vibrant community in their new homeland. It is in the hope of stimulating
citizens across America to awaken their own spirit of enterprise that
we proudly publish this book.
Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., President
Institute for Contemporary Studies
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1984.
Revised edition published in 1992 by ICS Press as Recapturing The
Spirit of Enterprise.
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Visible
Man
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A forthright, unvarnished portrait of life and struggle for young African-American
men in the inner city. Decrying the lack of vision in welfare reform,
George Gilder asserts that whatever the problems of young African-American
men today, invisibity is no longer among them.
First published in 1978 by Basic Books. Currently
published by ICS Press.
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Men
and Marriage
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A
chilling indictment on the state of the American family, and
the recent drive to deny the fundamental differences between
the sexes, Men and Marriage is "an outstandingly important
and well-argued book, strangely moving in its combination of
scholarly dilligence, common sense, courage, and devotion to
the res publica of human civilization."--National Review
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Speaking
of George Gilder
Edited by Frank Gregorsky
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Finally,
a Gilder book for those of us who want to get right to the
point!
From tapes, transcripts, and corporate conclaves, you get the SPOKEN
wit and wisdom of George Gilder - on money and morals, technology and
telecom. It's all here, and it's easy to use.
A little over a third of Speaking of George Gilder consists of speeches
and a previously unreleased 12,000-word interview. The rest is quotes
- mainly short ones - organized "topically."
And this is NOT a rework of George's books and magazine articles. Even
George's most loyal readers will not have seen most of what's in this
book.
That's because the contents of Speaking consist overwhelmingly of his
SPOKEN words - from magazine interviews, radio and TV appearances, and
remarks to corporate and academic groups.
Speaking is comprehensive yet concise, deep while still digestible. It
is the ONLY way you can sample ALL of George Gilder's ideas and recommendations
- simply and easily.
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The
Meaning of the Microcosm
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"In
The Meaning of the Microcosm, George Gilder introduces
us to some of the inventors and
their innovations
that are building America's future in the Digital Age.
Gilder brings to life in an easy to understand way often
complex technologies. He explains what is driving the fundamental
change in the way we live and the way we work."
Steve Forbes
Published in 1997 by The Progress and Freedom
Foundation.
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