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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 Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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.	Wealth and Poverty Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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.
Life After Television Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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.	Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise Buy Now From Amazon.com! Entrepreneurship, to George Gilder, is more than an economic activity. It is a way of life. The same spirit of enterprise—the impulse to freedom and self-governance—that 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.
Visible Man Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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.	Men and Marriage Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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
Speaking of George Gilder Edited by Frank Gregorsky Buy Now From Amazon.com! 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.	The Meaning of the Microcosm Buy Now From Amazon.com! "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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