Telecosm
The World After Bandwidth Abundance
With his books (including the groundbreaking Microcosm), top-selling newsletter, testimony before Congress, and annual Telecosm conferences, George Gilder has become the premier prophet of bandwidth and connectivity. In this revised version of Telecosm, Gilder takes technology buffs and investors on a mind-bending tour inside the worldwide webs of glass and light, explaining how fiber optics and wireless breakthroughs are pushing new technologies and new companies to the fore.
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- Free Press |
- 368 pages |
- ISBN 9780743215947 |
- October 2000
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Chapter 1: Maxwell's Rainbow
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
-- James Clerk Maxwell, discoverer of electromagnetism
"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
-- Mae West
The supreme abundance of the telecosm is the electromagnetic spectrum, embracing all the universe of vibrating electrical and magnetic fields, from power line pulses through light beams to cosmic rays. The scarcity that unlocks this abundance is the supreme scarcity in physical science: the absolute minimum time it takes to form an electromagnetic wave of a particular length. Set by the permeability of...
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