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Telecosm
- How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Categories: Money & Finance, Investing & Trading
Non-member price: $30.06
Publisher's Summary
George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, and "the man who put the 's' in telecosm" (Telephony magazine). He is equally famous for understanding and predicting the nuts and bolts of complex technologies, and for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change, and what it means for our daily lives. His track record of futuristic predictions is one of the best, often proving to be right even when initially opposed by mighty corporations and governments. He foresaw the power of fiber and wireless optics, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers, among many trends. His long-awaited Telecosm is a bible of the new age of communications. Equal parts science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in our lives.
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- James
- 14-11-2003
Learn about broadband and wireless
Gilder was a bet selling economic writer who became a famous technology writer and stock picker in the 90s. His stock picking has fallen down, but his technology writing is still excellent: he explains the physics and economics of the bandwidth revolution we are in the middle of, and does it in a compelling and understandable way.
Add 5 years (sometimes more) to his predictions and realize that the companies that developed the great technology don't always benefit from it.
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- Ms. P
- 19-08-2015
Explained simply, delightful stories
This is a must-read for the full-stack marketer looking for a good foundation in telecommunications.
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- David Chan
- 11-01-2020
Great book but clunky editing
Performance was good but editing bad. Noticeable pauses litter the work which distract unnecessarily. Otherwise a great book
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- Mark A. Fitzpatrick
- 24-10-2003
Telebubble
This book is a gem for historians. If you are longing for those bubble days, here's the book that let's you relive the nonsense. Play it on your home stereo at parties and laugh along with your friends and what you were crying about only two years ago. As an added bonus, you can memorize some of the lines from this comedy classic and use them as catch-phrases around the office water cooler. Your colleagues will say "where does she come up with this stuff? She's the coolest."
Seriously, it was borderline factual at points, did have some interesting and accurate history, but really smells of the euphoria of thse bygone days of yesteryear. If you find yourself wondering "what were we thinking", you can get the answer here. I really do recommend this book, but it certainly does not belong in Science, perhaps not in Information Age - Audible, please move this one to Comedy.
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- Mark E. Twiz
- 25-08-2014
No longer relavent
Shrugged. Not interesting when it was first released, and certainly no longer interesting today. There are many more important titles for your money today.
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- William
- 04-04-2013
Not really ground breaking stuff here
ISDN and DSL ,, this book has a couple of glimmers of hope but really not an inside look at the future of communications.
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