Telecosm cover art

Telecosm

How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
1 credit a month to buy any audiobook in our entire collection.
Access to thousands of additional audiobooks and Originals from the Plus Catalogue.
Member-only deals & discounts.
Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Telecosm

By: George Gilder
Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
Try Premium Plus free

Auto-renews at $16.45/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $20.99

Buy Now for $20.99

About this listen

 The Computer Age is over. After a cataclysmic global run of 30 years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm - the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high-tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to communication power, or bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time.

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.

©2000 by George Gilder (P)2000 by Blackstone Audiobooks, All Rights Reserved Investing & Trading Personal Finance
All stars
Most relevant  
Overall I think this audio book was exceptional with the only downside being that if you don’t like the narrator then you will struggle. If you did struggle, I urge you to push past it or get a paperback version of this book.

Onto why I think this is exceptional:

The overall structure begins with explaining the concepts of how communication works, then onto business concepts and then followed by history of how various sources of the current telecommunications world came to be.

Even in 2021, this book is fantastic at providing a background knowledge of telecommunications up to 2000, which if you’re someone who works in this industry and wanted to know the history and concepts in more depth, then this book hits the nail on the head.



A great book that blends history, concepts and telecommunications

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.