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COSM 2025: Publisher Steve Forbes’ Take On National Debt Crisis
He will be one of the participants in a panel discussion on That Unpleasant Subject at COSM 2025 in Scottsdale, Arizona, in November this year
Are Crypto and Blockchain Key to a Tech Renaissance?
A former director of the US Mint thinks that the market will gravitate toward these solutionsA panel discussion at COSM explored the future of crypto currencies like Bitcoin and blockchain technologies in general. What might they mean for global money, global security, and internet architecture? The panel, moderated by Wired contributing editor Spencer Reiss, comprised futurist George Gilder, Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, Ed Moy, former Director of the U.S. Mint, and William Dembski, mathematician, entrepreneur, and philosopher: Can Crypto and Blockchain Reverse the Tech Decline (and Enable an Internet Renaissance)? Here are some snatches from the dialogue (aired September 11, 2020): George Gilder (on what’s wrong with the internet): It’s a broken paradigm. How do you tell a broken paradigm? The more money you spend on it, the worse it gets. Read More ›
Is Crypto Just a Flash in the Pan?
Or, to put it more bluntly, will blockchain ever grow up to be a real financial system? Forbes says yes, cautiously
Cryptocurrency a “High-Tech Cry for Help” Says Steve Forbes of Forbes Media
Chair of Forbes Media Says Money Is About Trust
Experts forecast the future of money in general at COSMFacebook wants to start minting its own money. Amazon is said to be thinking about it. Bitcoin has many enthusiasts. But what determines the value of money in a digital age?
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Will Money Be “Real” in an Information Society?
Now that Facebook is proposing Libra, a cryptocurrency, this might be a good time to askMany of us know cryptocurrencies only from passing headline news. Yet thoughtful people argue that such currencies will help shape an information society. Why?
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George Gilder: Why Student Debt Should Simply Be Wiped Out
Universities are preparing students to resent, not join, the new decentralized economy“The colleges that took this money and enriched themselves, and hired hundreds more bureaucrats should have to give the money back.”
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George Gilder: Why Does Google Seem To Be Having a Corporate Nervous Breakdown?
Gilder tells Forbes that its whole culture is “kind of self-defeating and wrong.”"This whole business of aggregating people by giving them free stuff—in order to collect data to provide guidance for advertisers—it’s just a circuitous means of a business plan that I don’t think will finally prevail."
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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 computedCreativity 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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