Life After Google
The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
George Gilder 2018
Tigard Lib 338.761 GIL
I only clawed my way through 40 pages of this book, with scattered "index sampling" of the rest. Gilder's turns of phrase are minimally deft, and the book itself is disorganized and rambling. He dislikes Google and its power - he doesn't even mention Wikipedia and wiki technology in general, alternative paths to knowledge (and reviewed publishing) for and by the billions of people who aren't Google.
Rise of the "Blockchain Economy"? Speculations on the identity of Satoshi Nakamura? Bitcoin mining ceasing "only" 116 years from now? Gilder's obsessions differ from my own.
My "obsession" is that bitcoin mining can occur ANYWHERE within a few light-minutes distance from Earth, if the power is cheap and the heat sink "ample".