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George Gilder with a microphone in the foreground
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May 15, 2019
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George Gilder: Why Entrepreneurship Can’t Just Be Automated

In business, an entrepreneur is the “oracle,” the one element that cannot be programmed or computed
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May 15, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Natural Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind

Creativity always comes as a surprise to us. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t need it. We could program it on our machines. But because it’s always surprising, it can’t be planned.

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George Gilder talks at CNAI Dallas Launch
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April 25, 2019
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George Gilder: Google Does Not Believe in Life After Google

He offers chilling insight into the ultimate visions of technocrats
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April 25, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Social Factors

If the surveillance technology developed for China catches on in the West, however numberless the Googlers' infinite parallel universes may be, Americans will be constantly and closely observed while sitting behind on the beach.

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Jonathan Bartlett
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December 31, 2018
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Social Factors, Work
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How Can Information Theory Help the Economy Grow?

New information is the true source of new wealth; everyone wins when we learn how to produce it more efficiently
Jonathan Bartlett
December 31, 2018
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Social Factors, Work
What gives humans the ability to increase in prosperity, according to Eric Holloway, is our ability to “read” from Plato’s Library of new ideas, thus providing an ever-growing supply of side information that powers the economy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2018
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Data Privacy, Machine Learning
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Life after Google: More private and more profitable?

Reviewing Gilder’s Life after Google, Ralph Benko asks, If our attention is worth billions, shouldn’t we market it?
Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2018
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Data Privacy, Machine Learning
In a more open market, the user’s time and attention would no longer be a free service of nature. One expects incentives to follow naturally from more competition for the user’s attention.
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Mind Matters
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October 15, 2018
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Natural Intelligence
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George Gilder explains what’s wrong with “Google Marxism”

In discussion with Mark Levin, host of Life, Liberty & Levin
Mind Matters
October 15, 2018
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Natural Intelligence
Gilder: Marx’s great error, his real mistake, was to imagine that the industrial revolution of the 19th century, all those railways and “dark, satanic mills” and factories and turbine and the beginning of electricity represented the final human achievement in productivity so in the future what would matter is not the creation of wealth but the redistribution of wealth. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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September 30, 2018
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George Gilder talks tech at World News Daily

In a three-part interview the tech philosopher explains why he thinks Google is doomed
Mind Matters
September 30, 2018
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Machine Learning, Social Factors
“The Google dream is a supermind in the sky that knows everything,” Gilder told WND. “My dream is to distribute information as human minds are distributed.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 15, 2018
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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors
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The true cost of “free” social media

It’s free but… are we? George Gilder points a way forward.
Denyse O'Leary
September 15, 2018
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Ethics, Machine Learning, Social Factors
He thinks that expected massive increases in computing power will enable blockchain technologies that allow users to safely bypass the global data monopoly that Google and similar firms represent. Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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August 31, 2018
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Business and Finance, Machine Learning
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Imagining Life after Google

Reviewers of George Gilder's new book weigh in
Mind Matters
August 31, 2018
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Business and Finance, Machine Learning

If we have simply taken the big software, hardware, and social media companies who dominate our lives for granted, the reactions from the business world to Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy should give us a lot to think about.

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Denyse O'Leary
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August 14, 2018
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George Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay

People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”
Denyse O'Leary
August 14, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Social Factors

In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.

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