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Title: Telecosm

Subtitle: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

Author: George Gilder

Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-06-01

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

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.

Members Reviews:

Learn about broadband and wireless

Gilder was a bet selling economic writer who became a famous technology writer and stock picker in the 90s. His stock picking has fallen down, but his technology writing is still excellent: he explains the physics and economics of the bandwidth revolution we are in the middle of, and does it in a compelling and understandable way.

Add 5 years (sometimes more) to his predictions and realize that the companies that developed the great technology don't always benefit from it.

Explained simply, delightful stories

This is a must-read for the full-stack marketer looking for a good foundation in telecommunications.

Telebubble

This book is a gem for historians. If you are longing for those bubble days, here's the book that let's you relive the nonsense. Play it on your home stereo at parties and laugh along with your friends and what you were crying about only two years ago. As an added bonus, you can memorize some of the lines from this comedy classic and use them as catch-phrases around the office water cooler. Your colleagues will say "where does she come up with this stuff? She's the coolest."

Seriously, it was borderline factual at points, did have some interesting and accurate history, but really smells of the euphoria of thse bygone days of yesteryear. If you find yourself wondering "what were we thinking", you can get the answer here. I really do recommend this book, but it certainly does not belong in Science, perhaps not in Information Age - Audible, please move this one to Comedy.

No longer relavent

Shrugged. Not interesting when it was first released, and certainly no longer interesting today. There are many more important titles for your money today.

Not really ground breaking stuff here

ISDN and DSL ,, this book has a couple of glimmers of hope but really not an inside look at the future of communications.