Gilder's Words Can Carry Weight Among Investors
Wall Street Journal

George Gilder's newsletter often is so thick with technological jargon that even some on Wall Street say they have a hard time understanding it. [Full text]

George Gilder
Wired

George Gilder's wife prohibits anything stronger than Lipton tea at home, so when his connecting flight from Chicago O'Hare to Vancouver, British Columbia, is delayed, he takes advantage of her absence to hit the Starbucks for a bolt of caffeine or two. Or four. Four cappuccinos! Gilder is on turbodrive all the way west, taking notes on issue after issue of IEEE Journal. [Full text]

The Gospel According to George
The Red Herring

George Gilder stopped by The Red Herring's Venture Market East conference in Cambridge, MA and preached to us about the miracle of unlimited bandwidth and the second coming of Bill Gates. Mr. Gilder is currently an editor at Forbes ASAP and a fellow at The Discovery Institute in Seattle, WA. He is the author of several best-selling books, including Wealth and Poverty and Microcosm. His forthcoming book will be titled Telecosm. [Full text]

Auguring the Matrix
iWorld

George Gilder has been offering up surprising visions of future technology spiced with political commentary for more than a decade. A graduate of Harvard University, he majored in government, studied under Henry Kissinger, and later taught as a fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Politics. He is the author of 10 books, including Microcosm (1988), Life After Television (1990), and the forthcoming Telecosm, as well as a contributing editor to Forbes ASAP and a fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, a futurist think tank with a free-market bent. He also is a co-author with Esther Dyson, George Keyworth, and Alvin Toffler of the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age, which has served to inform the political establishment associated with Newt Gingrich about Net-related issues. [Full text]

Talking with George Gilder
Educom Review

An information technology visionary who writes compellingly about the relationship between technology and economics, George Gilder is the author of Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (1989), Wealth and Poverty (1981), and numerous other works. His 1990 book Life after Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life is now being issued by W.W. Norton Co. in a revised paperback edition with five new chapters. [Full text]

Interview with George Gilder
Upside

George Gilder is one of the few real futurists in high technology. Most of those who call themselves futurists do little more than paste together the latest fads and press clippings into a few good sound bites. But Gilder is different. He immerses himself in the technology by learning the underlying science, and gets out and talks to the people involved, ranging from engineers in the labs to entrepreneurs forming new companies. [Full text]

George Gilder: When Bandwidth Is Free
Wired

George Gilder mixes high technology and social politics. His best-selling book, Wealth and Poverty, practically outlined our loving embrace of high- tech entrepreneurs in the 1980s. Research for that book led him deeper into the physics of silicon microchips. He emerged with Microcosm, a book about how silicon-chip technology causes matter to "collapse" into a microcosm where the usual economies of scale are reversed: Small is better. [Full text]