"The computer of the future will be as portable as your watch and as personal as your wallet. It will recognize speech and navigate streets, collect your mail and your news."I wrote that in 1990 in my book Life After Television.Seventeen

The current internet infrastructure was built for a simple purpose: sharing information.The information superhighway was launched by academics to allow researchers on various projects around the world to collaborate.But as you know, the internet is now used for much more than

Editor’s Note: Back in 1990, a technological prophecy was made in a book called Life After Television. "The computer of the future will be as portable as your watch and as personal as your wallet. It will recognize speech and navigate streets,

By George GilderThe great Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek said it best: “The root and source of all monetary evil is government control of money.”Ironically most fully developed by free market economist Milton Freedman, monetarism has become the source and root of

By George GilderThis decade of the financial crisis — the “Great Recession,” with constant rumors and alarms of war — saw an epochal confrontation between the dollar and gold.At first, through 2011, gold surged and the dollar merely survived. Goldbugs claimed

By George GilderMain idea: Currency fluctuations are so independent of economic growth - and used as weapons by politicians. Moving to the gold standard is the only option. The idea of trekking back through twentieth-century history to excavate the ruins of

By George Gilder[Editor’s Note: The following article has been adapted from the book The Scandal of Money, written by George Gilder and originally published in 2016.]“I am more convinced than ever that if we ever again are going to have sound money

By George Gilder[Editor’s Note: The article below has been adapted from the book The Scandal of Money by George Gilder, originally published in 2016.]Every year we are told to expect another interest-rate spike, an abandonment of the dollar, a wild commodity boom,

By George GilderWhen I say the word “blockchain,” most people immediately think of bitcoin.Of course, they’re right. Blockchain provides a secure framework for bitcoin transactions.But the technology’s reach goes far beyond just bitcoin. Blockchain holds the key to an entirely new system

By George GilderThe idea of a universal basic income has gained traction lately.And not just among politicians. The notion that everyone should be entitled to a guaranteed paycheck is supported by the Silicon Valley elite, as well.Their reasoning is tied to