George F. Gilder

Wealth and Poverty

A look at television as a dying technology describes how government restrictions may hinder American companies from realizing their potential at the forefront of telecomputer development

Life After Television

The wellspring of capital will not be found on Wall Street or in the stuffy halls of corporate America, but instead in the hopes and dreams of people who want to create new products and new approaches to problem solving. It is this wellspring that will ultimately cleanse the soul of corporate America corrupted by power and age. George Gilder's 1984 classic was substantially revised for the 1990s and remains relevant today. This authoritative book looks at what went right in the 1980s and how we can jump-start the economy of the new millenium, featuring unforgettable portraits of entrepreneurs of today and tomorrow, from Bill Gates to members of the dynamic Cuban immigrant community of Miami.

Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise

Proposes that a revolution of high-speed, high-powered networks, not limited to the capacity of the PC, will enable users to transmit information at an exponentially higher rate.

how infinite bandwidth will revolutionize our world

Telecosm

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Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong AI

Are We Spiritual Machines?

George Gilder has written on of the most important books on sex, society and the women's role to have appeared in many years. Sexual differences, Gilder asserts, are at the root of our entire moral and social order. In a book that has been compared to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, he demonstrates that just as our natural environment is being endangered, our sexual ecology is threatened by a pollution of ideas and technology. The result is an erosion of love and family that reduces sex to a from of meaningless sensual massage. Both men and women are losers, and the society succumbs to anarchy and crime. Gilder argues that the "women's liberation" movement leads finally to a bitter harvest of male chauvinism and sexual conflict. The chief effect of feminism is not to liberate women, but to liberate men to oppress them. For all but an elite of careerists, the movement subjects women to a new bondage to the marketplace--freeing them not for creative careers but for mops, switchboards, and sexual exploitation. He believe that most observers in the women's movement and elsewhere fail to understand the vital economic and social importance of love, it is through love that men are induced to submit their impulsive and short-circuited sexuality to the long term goals and horizons of female sexuality: motherhood, family and community. Love is crucial to sustaining civilization and sexual differences are crucial to sustaining love. Examining a wealth of anthropological, economic, social, and psychological data, Gilder demonstrates that familial breakdown is the chief cause of the violence and drug addiction, the welfare explosion and the crime that afflict our nation's cities. By weakening family ties, the women' movement programs would worsen these problems. Crucial to restoring the balance of the sexes is maintenance of the male role as provider. Although career women make indispensable contributions to the nation's welfare and economy, the woman in the home performs the most important work of civilized society. From her maternal and domestic responsibilities derive the moral and social values necessary to human individuality and democracy. The alternative is a child care state to care for children and a police state to discipline men. Pointing to statistics proving that single men are the chief source of crime and social disruption, Gilder argues that marriage is essential to male socialization in the modern world--from dust jacket

Sexual Suicide

Documents the ongoing efforts of the billion-dollar technology company, Foveon, to develop sophisticated digital capabilities for artificially intelligent machines that will far outstrip the abilities of today's computers, in an account that profiles the company's key contributors while citing their role in transforming startups into Fortune 500 businesses. 30,000 first printing.

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"Timely when originally published, Men and Marriage is essential now given the the warlike climate ofmale-female relationships, unfortunately fostered by radical feminism."Rush LimbaughMen and Marriage is a critical commentary that asks theburning question, How can society survive the pervasive disintegration of thefamily? A profound crisis faces modern social order as traditional familyrelationships become almost unrecognizable.George Gilder's Men and Marriage is a revised and expandededition of his 1973 landmark work, Sexual Suicide . He examinesthe deterioration of the family, the well-defined sex roles it offered, and howthis change has shifted the focus of our society. Poverty, for instance, stemsfrom the destruction of the family when unmarried parents are abandoned bytheir lovers or older women are divorced because society approves of theirhusbands' younger girlfriends. Gilder claims that men will only fulfill theirpaternal obligations when women lead them to do so, and that this civilizinginfluence, balanced with proper economic support, is the most important part ofmaintaining a productive, healthy, loving society. He offers a concrete planfor rebuilding the family in America. His solutions challenge readers to returnto these roles and reestablish the family values that were once so crucial instaving off the ills that plague our country.Gilder insists that it is time to reexamine what "liberation" haswrought and at what cost. Only a return to traditional family values, hecontends, can stem the tide of disaster.George Gilder is the author of Wealth and Poverty , thebest-selling critique of Reaganomics, The Spirit of Enterprise ,Visible Man , Naked Nomads , and The Party ThatLost Its Head . He was a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan and now writesregularly for The Wall Street Journal and National Review aboutmaterial advances and their effect on society. His most recent books includetwo other well-known social commentaries, Microcosm and Life AfterTelevision. Also available in paperback.

George F. Gilder

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