George Gilder on Artificial Intelligence, Economic Innovation, and the Promise of Cryptocurrency
We live in an era of cultural whiplash. Never has the potential for technological advances been more pronounced, and at the same time, the potential for wrenching societal dislocations so threatening. What are we to make of such times as these? Should we be excited or fearful, optimistic or quaking in our boots?
For answers, Wesley turned to George Gilder, one of America’s most prominent and innovative thinkers about technology and the economy and a co-founder of Discovery Institute where he directs Discovery’s Technology and Democracy Project and is a senior fellow of the Center on Wealth and Poverty.
Mr. Gilder attended Exeter Academy and Harvard University. At Harvard, he studied under Henry Kissinger and helped found Advance, a journal of political thought. In the 1970s, as an independent researcher and writer, Mr. Gilder began an excursion into the causes of poverty and wealth, which led to his best-selling Wealth and Poverty.
A few of his more recent contributions are Knowledge and Power, in which Gilder presents a new theory of economics, based on the breakthroughs from information theory that enabled the computer revolution and the rise of the Internet. The book won the Leonard E. Read prize at FreedomFest in Las Vegas in 2013. He also recently penned Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs, and Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money.
Gilder is a contributing editor of Forbes magazine and has been published in The Economist, The American Spectator, the Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. He is also Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Related Resources
- Technology & Democracy Project | Discovery Institute
- Gaming AI: Why AI Can’t Think but Can Transform Jobs | Amazon
- Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism | Amazon
- Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money | Amazon
- Life After Googe: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy | Amazon