Praise the baud.(Review)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 9, 2000 | Copyright information

TELECOSM: HOW INFINITE BANDWIDTH WILL REVOLUTIONISE OUR WORLD. By George Gilder. Free Press; 352 pages; $26

George Gilder transformed himself from free-market apostle into techno- evangelist. Will he be right a second time?

FOR the past several years, George Gilder has held an annual conference in Lake Tahoe, California, called Telecosm. The topic of these gatherings--as of this book whose title it shares--is simply put: the future of communication in a world ...

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