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Life after Google : the fall of big data and the rise of the blockchain economy / George F. Gilder

By: Language: English Publication details: Washington, DC : Regnery Gateway, 2018Description: xv, 320 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781621575764
  • 1621575764
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/760979473
LOC classification:
  • HC 107 G468l 2018
Contents:
Prologue: Back to the future the ride 1. Don't steal this book 2. Google's system of the world 3. Google's roots and religions 4. End of the free world 5. Ten laws of the cryptocosm 6. Google's datacenter coup 7. Dally's parallel paradigm 8. Markov and Midas 9. Life 3.0 10. 1517 11. The heist 12. Finding Satoshi 13. Battle of the blockchains 14. Blockstack 15. Taking back the net 16. Brave return of Brendan Eich 17. Yuanfen 18. The rise of sky computing 19. A global insurrection 20. Neutering the network 21. The empire strikes back 22. The Bitcoin flaw 23. The great unbundling Epilogue: The new system of the world Bibliography Notes Index
Summary: "The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder--the peerless visionary of technology and culture--explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to 'search and sort' attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies--videos, maps, email, calendars ... And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of 'aggregate and advertise' works--for a while--if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the 'cryptocosm'--The new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a 'great unbundling, ' which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet."
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 107 G468l 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000165709

Word "Google" on title page and spine printed upside down and backwards

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue: Back to the future
the ride
1. Don't steal this book
2. Google's system of the world
3. Google's roots and religions
4. End of the free world
5. Ten laws of the cryptocosm
6. Google's datacenter coup
7. Dally's parallel paradigm
8. Markov and Midas
9. Life 3.0
10. 1517
11. The heist
12. Finding Satoshi
13. Battle of the blockchains
14. Blockstack
15. Taking back the net
16. Brave return of Brendan Eich
17. Yuanfen
18. The rise of sky computing
19. A global insurrection
20. Neutering the network
21. The empire strikes back
22. The Bitcoin flaw
23. The great unbundling
Epilogue: The new system of the world
Bibliography
Notes
Index

"The Age of Google, built on big data and machine intelligence, has been an awesome era. But it's coming to an end. In Life after Google, George Gilder--the peerless visionary of technology and culture--explains why Silicon Valley is suffering a nervous breakdown and what to expect as the post-Google age dawns. Google's astonishing ability to 'search and sort' attracts the entire world to its search engine and countless other goodies--videos, maps, email, calendars ... And everything it offers is free, or so it seems. Instead of paying directly, users submit to advertising. The system of 'aggregate and advertise' works--for a while--if you control an empire of data centers, but a market without prices strangles entrepreneurship and turns the Internet into a wasteland of ads. The crisis is not just economic. Even as advances in artificial intelligence induce delusions of omnipotence and transcendence, Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on security. The Internet firewalls supposedly protecting all those passwords and personal information have proved hopelessly permeable. The crisis cannot be solved within the current computer and network architecture. The future lies with the 'cryptocosm'--The new architecture of the blockchain and its derivatives. Enabling cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ether, NEO and Hashgraph, it will provide the Internet a secure global payments system, ending the aggregate-and-advertise Age of Google. Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a 'great unbundling, ' which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet."

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