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The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future—through the very unique lenses of more than 100 of the world’s foremost futurists, including David Brin, Po Bronson, Sanjiv Chopra, George Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, Ray Kurzweil, Jane McGonigal, Lord Martin Rees, Byron Reese, and many other luminaries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295666581877,"sku":"9780999736449","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780999736449_9e3d94b1-f423-4d54-8450-83804341fc47.jpg?v=1786016396"},{"product_id":"9781684512935","title":"Life After Google","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE MONTH \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNothing Mr. Gilder says or writes is ever delivered at anything less than the fullest philosophical decibel..\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMr. Gilder sounds less like a tech guru than a poet, and his words tumble out in a romantic cascade.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“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\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Life after Google is almost here.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303089222005,"sku":"9781684512935","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781684512935_7a4a300b-0242-48c6-aff9-d017e0d018c1.jpg?v=1786024737"},{"product_id":"9781684512249","title":"Life after Capitalism","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor of national bestseller \u003ci\u003eLife After Google\u003c\/i\u003e and generation-defining \u003ci\u003eWealth and Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e, venture capitalist, futurist, and pioneering thinker extraordinaire George Gilder pinpoints how the clash of creativity with power at the heart of economic systems leads to global cognitive dissonance and argues that the creation of the novel taps capitalism's infinite promise and is humanity's only path of escape from stagnation and tyranny. Gilder once more rocks the archetypes of modern information theory and economics with a paradigm-shifting salvo of sheer brilliance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe capitalist era is over—get ready for life after capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreativity and faith in the future—capitalism’s crucial ingredients—seem to have run out. The elites think they can maintain a nation’s wealth by printing money and investing it in favored industries. Their trust in bureaucratic experts, their cautionary paranoia, and their delusional belief that they can “control” everything from the spread of a virus to the weather, are sucking the life out of the economy. Ordinary people, their freedoms restricted, their prospects dim, are losing their faith in their institutions. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch misguided corporatism and pride, confusion and despair, are the result of a deep misunderstanding of capitalism itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. 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