Life After Google

by George Gilder

  Langville, Amy and Carl D. Meyer, Google’s Page Rank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006, 2011).

  Lanier, Jason. Dawn of the New Everything (New York: Macmillan, Henry Holt & Company, 2017).

  Lanier, Jaron. Who Owns the Future? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013).

  Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not a Gadget (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).

  Levy, Steven. In hhe Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011).

  Lewis, C. S. The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1949).

  Lewis, Nathan K. Gold: The Final Standard (New Berlin, NY: Canyon Maple Publishing, 2017).

  Lewis, Nathan K. Gold: The Monetary Polaris (New Berlin, NY: Canyon Maple Publishing, 2013.

  MacCormick, John. Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas that Drive Today’s Computers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).

  McKay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (New York: Harmony Books, 1980).

  Marx, Karl. The German Ideology (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1998).

  Mauldin, John and Jonathan Tepper. Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings from the Coming Crisis (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2014).

  O’Hagan, Andrew. The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age (New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2017).

  Oram, Andy. ed., Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 2001).

  Peirce, Charles S., edited with an Introduction by Morris R. Cohen, with a supplementary essay by John Dewey, Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1923).

  Popper, Nathaniel, Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money (New York: HarperCollins, 2015).

  Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged (New York: Signet, New American Library, 1957).

  Rifkin, Jeremy. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2016).

  Sabino, Carlos and Wayne Leighton, Privatization of Telecommunications in Guatamala: A Tale Worth Telling, Case Study (The Antigua Forum, 2013).

  Schmidt, Eric and Jonathan Rosenberg, with foreword by Larry Page. How Google Works (New York: Hachette, 2016).

  Shannon, Claude, with Sloane, N.J.A. and Aaron D. Wyner, ed, Collected Papers (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1993).

  Stephenson, Neal. Reamde (New York: HarperCollins, 2011).

  Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash (New York: Bantam Books, 1992).

  Stephenson, Neal. The System of the World, (New York: HarperCollins, 2004).

  Stoll, Ira. Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway (New York: Doubleday, 1995).

  Taplin, Jonathan. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy (New York: Little Brown and Company, 2017).

  Thiel, Peter, with Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (New York: Crown Business, 2014).

  Thierer, Adam, and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. What’s Yours is Mine: Open Access and the Rise of Infrastructure Socialism (Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2003).

  Sweigart, Al, Cracking Codes with Python, an Introduction to Building and Breaking Ciphers (San Francisco: No Starch Press, 2018).

  Tapscott, Don and Alex Tapscott. Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World (New York: Penguin Random House, 2016).

  Tegmark, Max. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017).

  Turner, Fred. Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production (Sage Journal, 2009).

  Turing, Alan. “On Computable Numbers, With An Application to the Entscheidungsproblem” (Princeton: Princeton Graduate Press, 1936).

  Turing, Alan. Systems of Logic, edited and introduced by Andrew W. Appel (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012).

  Vigna, Paul and Michael J. Casey, The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015).

  Whiteside, D.T. The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton, (Cambridge, UK: University Press, 2008).

  Wu, Tim. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside our Heads (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).

  Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires revised paperback edition (New York: Vintage Books, 2011).

  Yockey, Hubert. Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

  Periodicals

  Andreessen, Marc. “Why Bitcoin Matters,” The New York Times, January 21, 2014.

  Andreessen, Marc. “Why Software is Eating the World,” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2011.

  Appelbaum, Binyamin. “Is Bitcoin a Waste of Electricity, or Something Worse?” New York Times, February 28, 2018.

  Arthur, W. Brian. McKinsey Quarterly, October 2017.

  Auspitz, Josiah Lee, “The Wasp Leaves the Bottle: Charles Sanders Peirce,” The American Scholar, 2001, 602–19.

  Ayau, Manuel F. “Philosophy Statement and Inaugural Address,” Universidad Francisco Marroquin, 1972.

  Bell, Gordon “Bell’s Law for the Birth and Death of Computer Classes.” Communications of the ACM. 51 (1), January 2008.

  Boring, Perianne. “Protecting Blockchain from the Mad Hatter,” The Hill, November 21, 2017.

  Dally, William James and John Nickolls “The GPU Computing Era,” IEEE Micro, March/April 2010.

  Dally, William James et al “Scaling the Power Wall: A Path to Exascale,” IEEE Micro, September/October 2011.

  Eich, Brendan. Brave Software, Basic Attention Token (BAT), Blockchain Based Digital Advertising, White Paper (March 13, 2018).

  Gilder, George. “The Information Factories,” Wired, October 1, 2006.

  Hajdarbegovic, Nermin. “Lingusitic Researchers Name Nick Szabo as Author of the Bitcoin Whitepaper,” Coindesk, April 16, 2014.

  Levy, Steven. “Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy”, Wired, Dec. 11, 2015, https://www.wired.com/2015/12/inside-deep-dreams-how-google-made-its-computers-go-crazy/.

  Lewis, Nathan K. “The Gold Standard and the Myth about Money Growth,” Forbes.com, February 16, 2012.

  Lieber, Franz. “Appointment in Tomorrow,” Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951.

  Nelson, Jude and Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shea, Michael J. Freedman. “Extending Existing Blockchains with Virtualchain,” Workshop on Distributed Cryptocurrencies and Consensus Ledgers, Chicago, IL, July 2016.

  O’Hagan, Andrew. “The Satoshi Affair,” London Review of Books, Vol. 38, number 13, June 30, 2016. Also, The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age (New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2017).

  Rabiner, Lawrence. “Hidden Markov Models”, Proceedings of the IEEE, February 1989.

  Roberts, Jeff John and Adam Lashinsky, “Hacked: How companies fight back,” Fortune, June 22, 2017.

  Shannon, Claude Elwood. “A Mathematical Theory of Communications” in The Bell System Technical Journal, October 1948.

  Tredennick, Nick and Brion Shimamoto, “Embedded Systems and the Microprocessor,” Microprocessor Report (Cahners) April 24, 2000.

  von Hilgers, Philipp and Amy Langville, “The Five Greatest Applications of Markov Chains”, Proceedings of the Markov Anniversary Meeting. Boson Press, 2006.

  Index

  A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.

  A

  Adams, Henry, 280r />
  Age of Google. See Google Era

  Alexa, 41–42, 64

  Ali, Muneeb, 159–62, 165–69, 171

  Alphabet, 26, 29, 167

  Amazon, 8, 26, 39–42, 64, 78, 80, 121, 166, 168, 171–72, 187, 189, 193–97, 205–6, 223, 233, 244, 261, 269, 284

  Ammous, Saifedean, 154, 253, 255–56

  Andreessen, Marc, 2, 124–26, 129, 135, 162, 166–67, 217–18, 243–44

  Andresen, Gavin, 129, 147–48, 151–52

  Android, 23, 29, 39, 41, 67, 201

  Apple, 2, 4–5, 8, 29, 39, 64, 154, 168, 190, 223, 233–34, 269, 284

  Arthur, W. Brian, 1

  artificial intelligence (AI), 2–4, 7, 20–21, 41–42, 66, 72–73, 89, 94–101, 104, 106–8, 191–92

  Asilomar, 93–99, 105–7

  Assange, Julian, 131

  AT&T, 229, 233–35

  Atlas Shrugged, 123

  Attention Merchants, The, 235

  Ayau, Manuel, 213–16

  Ayre, Calvin, 146

  B

  Back to the Future, xi–xii, xiv, 70

  Bagehot, Walter, 88

  Baird, Leemon, 150, 245, 266–67

  Balaban, Stephen, 117, 189–98, 223–24

  Baroque Cycle, 11

  Battlestar Galactica, 5

  Baum, Leonard E., 77, 80, 90

  Beasley, Cole, 272

  Bechtolsheim, Andy, 26, 59–60

  Belch, Danny, 274

  Bell, Gordon, 53–54, 61, 198, 202, 231, 268

  Benet, Juan, 204

  Berners-Lee, Tim, 164, 168

  Berninger, Daniel, 227–31, 233, 235–36

  Bezos, Jeff, 26

  Bharara, Preet, 145, 244

  Bitcoin Magazine, 107, 110, 152

  Bitcoin Standard, The, 154, 253

  bitcoins, 110, 120, 124, 126–27, 133, 145–46, 216–18, 252, 257, 279

  Blade Runner, xii

  blockchain, 106–8, 110–11, 129–30, 139, 141, 146–57, 165, 169, 171–76, 184–85, 202–4, 206–11, 217–18, 223–24, 227–28, 231–32, 234, 239–41, 243–47, 255, 258–61, 263–66, 268–69, 277, 279, 281–83, 285

  Blockstack, 121, 159–60, 164–65, 169, 172–76, 201–2, 247, 260, 263, 265

  Boltzmann, Ludwig, 18, 76, 280

  Bostrom, Nick, 7, 93

  Boltzmann, Ludwig, 18, 76, 280

  Bowyer, Jerry, 37

  Bradley, Bill, 110

  Bradski, Gary, 191, 194

  Brin, Sergey, xv, 4, 7, 25–27, 29–31, 33, 37, 54, 59, 90, 181

  Brodsky, Ira, 35

  Brynjolfsson, Erik, 93

  Buckley, William F., 6

  Buffett, Warren, 125, 243

  Burning Man, 32–34, 95, 193

  Buterin, Vitalik, 106–8, 110–13, 117, 150–54, 156–57, 169, 184, 192, 203, 220, 223–25, 244, 258, 264

  C

  Calzada, Gabriel, 216

  Canizaro, Frank, 68

  Carmack, John, 185

  Carnap, Rudolf, 15–16

  Casado, Martin, 161–62, 165

  Chaitin, Gregory, 18–19, 73–874, 247, 277, 280

  Chalmers, David, 93

  Chandna, Asheem, 5

  Chaun Li, 197

  Cheriton, Dave, 26

  China National Petroleum, 11

  Christensen, Clayton, 114, 259

  Church, Alonzo, 190, 247

  Clark, Jim, 166

  Clarkson, Steve, 197

  Cleland, Scott, 35

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind, xii

  Coase, Ronald, 9

  Coase’s Law, 259

  Cohen, Bram, 132,

  Computer and the Brain, The, 70

  Cook, Tim, 4, 29

  Cortana, 64

  cryptocosm, 43, 45–46, 50, 108, 131, 202, 210, 243, 245, 264, 266, 269

  cryptography, 107, 202, 217, 259, 268, 282, 284

  Cybernetics, 77

  D

  Dalles, The, 51–54, 56, 58, 61, 69, 82, 195, 199

  Dally, Bill, 26, 63–65, 67–72, 195, 209–10

  Darwin, Charles, 7, 46, 115

  Dawn of the New Everything, 272

  Dean, Jeff, 41, 67, 69

  Deep Mind, 3, 41, 94

  de Grey, Aubrey, 4

  Demeester, Tuur, 216, 218

  Denton, Michael, 106

  Dick, Philip K., 193

  Dimon, Jamie, 125, 243

  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 193

  Doerr, John, 26

  Donald, James, 133

  Draper, Tim, 244

  Dreamscope, 193, 196–98

  Drexler, Eric, 93

  Drucker, Peter, 12, 86

  Dyson, Esther, 63, 183

  E

  Education of Henry Adams, The, 280

  Edwards, Doug, 38

  Eich, Brendan, 48, 166, 169, 176, 179–87, 207

  Eichenholz, Jason, 115

  Einstein, Albert, 72, 76, 79, 89–90

  Ethereum, 106–7, 111, 121, 127, 150–55, 157, 173–74, 176, 180, 184, 203–4, 207, 223–24, 244, 263–65, 267–68

  Eugene Onegin, 76

  Euler, Leonhard, 14–15

  Everquest, 127

  Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 257

  Exxon, 11

  F

  Facebook, 4, 8, 54, 80, 93, 126, 164, 167–69, 172, 182–83, 185, 187, 198, 201, 206, 220, 224, 229, 233–34, 269, 272, 284

  Fano, Robert, 81

  Ferguson, Niall, 130

  1517 Fund, 109, 111–12, 220, 223

  Finney, Hal, 119–20, 123–24, 134–35

  Firefox, 179

  Forthrast, John, 127

  Fortune, 5

  Fourier, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 86

  Fox, Michael J., xii

  Freedman, Michael J., 157, 159, 161, 165, 265

  G

  Galt, John, 123, 130

  Gates, Bill, 26, 124, 224

  Gelernter, David,

  German Ideology, The, 6

  Gibson, Mike, 109–11, 194, 221

  Gilder Publishing, xi

  Gingrich, Newt, 130

  Gmail, 2, 54, 58, 97

  Gödel, Kurt, 15–19, 73–74, 84, 100–1, 103, 105–6, 149, 247, 262, 278, 280–81, 283, 286

  Goldberg, Ian, 107

  Good, I. J., 94

  Google, xv, 2–5, 7–8 25–26, 146, 150, 153–54, 157, 164–69, 171–73, 176, 181–84, 187, 189, 191–98, 220, 222–25, 247

  “system of the world,” 11–23, 276

  philosophy, 25–35

  use of advertising, 37–43

  rule of communications, 45–46

  compared to the cryptocosm, 48–50

  data center, 51–61

  machine learning/innovation, 63–71

  influence of Andrey Markov, 75–92

  work with AI, 93–108

  cloud technology, 199–211

  Internet regulation, 227–41

  the “great unbundling,” 259–69

  Google Brain, 67–68, 71, 94, 192, 223

  Google Era, 13, 45, 49, 57, 63, 75–76, 78, 80, 89, 247, 261–62, 277

  Gosling, James, 179

  Grainger, Alissa, 205, 207, 209

  Grigg, Ian, 153

  H

  Harari, Yuval Noah, 4, 7

  Harik, Georges, 196–98

  HashCash, 123, 134

  Hassabis, Demis, 41, 93, 99

  Hearn, Mike, 153, 245

  Hennessy, John, 26, 222

  Heyting, Arend, 15

  Hilbert, David, 14–17, 247

  Hillenmeyer, Hunter, 271–74

  Hillis, Danny, 71

  Hinton, Geoffrey, 41, 93, 192

  Hoffman, Reid, 274

  Hölzle, Urs, 53–56, 58, 67, 71, 82, 195, 199–202, 209, 232, 241

  Horowitz, Ben, 125, 162

  Horowitz, David, 162

  Hoskinson, Charles, 153–54, 264–65

  How to Create a Mind, 79, 101

  I

  Ibárgüen, Giancarlo, 215–16

  Inception, 192
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  Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, 11

  iTunes, 8

  Ivan on Tech, 204

  J

  James, Daniel Colin, 39–40

  JavaScript, 48, 166, 176, 179–80, 185–86

  Jelinek, Fred, 81, 88

  Jobs, Steve, xv, 8, 64, 144

  Jouppi, Norm, 65, 69

  K

  Kelley, Nick, xi

  Kelly, Kevin, 184–85, 191

  Kendall, Mike, 249–50, 253–58

  Khosla, Vinod, 26

  King, Mervyn, 263

  Kleiman, David, 140, 145–46

  Klugmann, Mark, 216

  Knuth, Donald, 26

  Kolmogorov, Anton, 73

  Kowalski, Jeff, 186

  Krauss, Lawrence, 93

  Krugman, Paul, 126, 136, 243

  Kubrick, Stanley, xi

  Kurzweil, Raymond, 25, 68, 79, 89, 93, 95–101, 103, 280

  L

  Langley, Samuel P., 224

  Langville, Amy, 75

  Lanier, Jaron, xiv, 60, 82–83, 89, 104, 185, 272, 275

  Larimer, Dan, 153, 245, 265–66

  Laughlin, Robert, 87

  LeCun, Yann, 93, 99

  Leibniz, Gottfried Willhelm, 12

  Levandowski, Anthony, 41

  Levy, Steven, 30–31

  Lewis, C. S., xiv

  Life after Television, xiv–xv, 30–31, 182

  Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 95

  Liljeqvist, Ivan, 204

  Limbaugh, Rush, 42,

  Lombard Street, 88

  London Review of Books, 144

  Los Angeles Times, 214

  Lubin, Joe, 107

  Lucas, George, xii

  Luther, Martin, 111, 213, 220

  M

  Machine Learning, 2–3, 6, 64–65, 67–70, 76, 94, 97, 105, 190, 192–93, 195, 204, 209, 247, 265, 276–77, 280, 284

  Macintosh, 2–3, 64

  Mackay, Charles, 257

  Maddow, Rachel, 110

  Manning, Peyton, 271

  Markov, Andrey, 75–92, 277

  Marquand, John P., 131

  Marroquín, Franciso, 213–16

  Martin, Laura, 38

  Master Switch, The, 235