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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Narrado por Eric Michael Summerer
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You can say goodbye to today's Internet, New York Times bestselling author George Gilder says.
Soon the current model of aggregated free content populated with "value-subtracted" advertising will die a natural death, due, of course, to the simple fact that absolutely no one wants to see online advertising. What will tomorrow's Internet look like?
>In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money.
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Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
Narrado por Eric Michael Summerer
Descrição
You can say goodbye to today's Internet, New York Times bestselling author George Gilder says.
Soon the current model of aggregated free content populated with "value-subtracted" advertising will die a natural death, due, of course, to the simple fact that absolutely no one wants to see online advertising. What will tomorrow's Internet look like?
>In Life After Google, Gilder takes listeners on a brilliant, rocketing journey into the very near-future, into an Internet with a new "bitcoin-bitgold" transaction layer that will replace spam with seamless micro-payments and provide an all-new standard for global money.
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Unusual and visionary, offers a fresh perspective for the world
Rating: 5
Ideas worth listening to. I found it a little too opinionated and not all the visions that are presented are convincing enough.
Rating: 3
A gratifying read about technology, business, behemoth technology firms. where technology is going and what will stop its progress.
Every reader should be empowered knowing the people still hold sway and the upper hand.
Rating: 5Every reader should be empowered knowing the people still hold sway and the upper hand.
Well-researched thoughtful insights from an astonishing individual observing the cross-currents of technology.
Rating: 5Starting out as an interesting albeit slapdash and intellectually imprecise description of the development of computer science up until the point of Google dominance the leaps of logic eventually pile up until the author has charted enough of the way towards his own personal fringe opinion which ultimately comes down to: "It's intelligent design, folks. God made all the stuff. There couldn't be stuff outside of the creator's mind, so there can't be AI, so Google can't be on the right track." Very disappointing listen.
Rating: 1Es una visión muy interesante de la futura evolución tecnológica. Creo que hay que seguir de cerca los cambios que aquí se mencionan y el impacto que puede tener la tecnología blockchain en el mundo.
Rating: 5God what a bad book. It's rambling with no coherent thesis, often borderline incoherent, unless it is something like "Google is going to be killed by Bitcoin and the blockchain BECAUSE PRIVACY". Which makes about as a much sense as saying "TV is going to be killed by Gold BECAUSE INFLATION" - they just don't have much to do with each other.There are periodically good insights but they never seem to go anywhere, and the book is filled with either assertions that are entirely dubious or factually false. For example:"If your product is free, it is not a product, and you are not in business, even if you can extort money from so-called advertisers to fund it. " - Where to start with this idiocy? Google does indeed have customers that pay them gazillions of dollars - it's just not those of us pushing the search button. They are not extorting advertisers, the advertisers are throwing money at them because it works. This is just stupid.He then proceeds to attribute the saying "if you're not paying for the product, you are the product" to Tim Cook. I'm sorry, Tim Cook has said something like this but he did not invent this phrase. It's just incorrect.I'm a technologist - I understand the concepts we're dealing with here, so this isn't based on not understanding the basics, the book is just a rambling mess. I'm probably sympathetic to much of his worldview, I'm sympathetic to his outlook that the big guys aren't good for our privacy, and sympathetic to his indictment of the current higher education situation, but this book doesn't really establish that cryptocurrency and the blockchain are the solution.If you want to understand bitcoin, save your money and just google some bitcoin 101 web posts.
Rating: 1I picked up this book thinking it would talk about the intricacies of bit coin / blockchain. I was wrong. The first half of the book talks mainly about Google and how it works. The second half talks about how blockchain will impact our future.The writing about blockchain could have been simplified as I had to read those sections a couple of time to understand it. I do admit of having only a basic understanding of blockchain data structure.
Rating: 3
Fantastic review of blockchain and the future of economies worldwide.
Rating: 5The prologue is hilarious and the book a good read. The narrator does an excellent job. My only concern is that the whole thesis may be already obsolete with quantum computers, but nevertheless I liked it
Rating: 4