Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

Gilder, George

Published by Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C., 2018

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New condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Prologue: Back to the Future - The Ride; Epilogue: The New System of the World; Some Terms of Art and Information For Life After Google; Bibliography; Notes and Index. "Silicon Valley's Nervous Breakdown. 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 era dawns. Google's astonishing ability to "search and sort" atttracts 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 hoplessly 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 aggreagate-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." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: George Gilder, one of the leading economic and technological thinkers of the past forty years, is the author of nineteen books, including Wealth and Poverty, Life After Television, Knowledge and Power, and The Scandal of Money. A founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his study of information theory, and an influential venture investor, he lives with his wife in western Massachusetts. Seller Inventory # 004086

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Title: Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and ...

Publisher: Regnery Gateway, Washington, D.C.

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New