Life After Google by George Gilder Summary
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In "Life After Google," tech visionary George Gilder predicts the collapse of Silicon Valley's data monopolies and blockchain's revolutionary rise. This 2018 manifesto sparked fierce debate by challenging big tech's entire business model - what if your data becomes yours again?
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The Digital Revolution's Unexpected Challenger
Imagine a world where Google's reign comes to an end-where the tech giant that promised to organize all human knowledge falls to a radically different vision of the internet. This is the provocative premise of "Life After Google." The book has become required reading in Silicon Valley boardrooms and cryptocurrency startups alike, with tech leaders keeping dog-eared copies close at hand. At its core, this isn't just another critique of Big Tech-it's a manifesto for a fundamentally different digital future. Google has built an empire on the premise that information should be free, that artificial intelligence will eventually surpass human capabilities, and that centralization creates efficiency. But what if these foundational assumptions are fundamentally flawed? What if the future belongs not to massive data centers and advertising algorithms, but to decentralized networks where individuals control their own data and security comes first? This vision of a "cryptocosm"-a new digital ecosystem built on blockchain technology-challenges everything we've come to accept about how the internet should work.
Google's System of the World: A Digital Empire Built on Sand
The Cult of the Free: How Google's Philosophy Undermines Its Future
The Cryptocosm Revolution: Ten Laws of a New Digital Order
Building the New Internet: Security as Foundation
The Great Unbundling: Restoring Value in a Digital World
Beyond Google: Reclaiming Our Digital Humanity
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