Life After Google Quotes

“Chaitin proved that physical laws alone, for example, could not explain chemistry or biology, because the laws of physics contain drastically less information than do chemical or biological phenomena.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

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― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“Oil-futures trading has risen by a factor of one hundred in some three decades, from 10 percent of oil output in 1984 to ten times oil output in 2015. Derivatives on real estate are now nine times global GDP. That’s not capitalism, that’s hypertrophy of finance.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“Feeding on the air of entitlement of fading upper-class institutions that accomplish “little with a lot” of other people’s funds, the Harvard initiative reflected the increasing inebriation of elite American education. Focusing on stopping progress, barring new power plants, dismantling chemical facilities, mobilizing against Israel, and other reactionary pursuits, Ivy institutions are pursuing the fancies of a declining intellectual and business elite, full of chemophobic nags and luddite lame-ducks quacking away on their miasmic pools of old money as the world whirls past them.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“Traditionally the haven currency was the U.S. dollar, but since early 2018—from Greece to Venezuela, from Argentina to Zimbabwe—the haven has increasingly been bitcoin.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“In the United States, unmoored Markovian money can be manipulated at will by the Federal Reserve in the interests of its sponsors in government and their pseudo-private cronies.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“But the most impressive Markov warriors and Siren Servers are not at Google or Amazon or Facebook. They reside at a little-known but astonishingly successful company transforming the world of finance. The real Markovian masters of the universe run a venture in Setauket, Long Island, called Renaissance Technologies. It is the Google-era titan of finance and investment.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“In the age of Big Data, the von Neumann bottleneck has philosophical implications. The more knowledge that is put into a von Neumann machine, the bigger and more crowded its memory, the further away its average data address, and the slower its functioning.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“Whereas Google envisages an era of machine dominance through artificial intelligence, you will rule your machines, and they will serve you as intelligent, willing slaves. You will be the “oracle” that programs your life and dictates to your tools.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

“Money, like the cosmos, has become relativistic and reversible at will. The three hundred years of Newtonian prosperity having come to an end, the new multiverse seems unable to repeat the miracle of a golden age of capitalism. It is now widely held that citizens are essentially owned by the state on which they depend. Slavery, in the form of servitude to governments, is making a comeback as money transactions become less trustworthy.”
― George Gilder, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy