Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World by George Gilder is a rather interesting audio book on the subject of the internet and the telecommunications companies and how greatly increased bandwidth is changing our lives and the world around us. It’s highly recommended if you want to get a good idea of where we are heading with fiber optic technology as regards communications networks.

Publisher Description:

The Computer Age is over. After a cataclysmic global run of 30 years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm – the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. Chips and software will continue to make great contributions to our lives, but the action is elsewhere. To seek the key to great wealth and to understand the bewildering ways that high-tech is restructuring our lives, look not to chip speed but to communication power, or bandwidth. Bandwidth is exploding, and its abundance is the most important social and economic fact of our time.

George Gilder is one of the great technological visionaries, and the man who put the ‘s’ in telecosm (Telephony magazine). He is equally famous for understanding and predicting the nuts and bolts of complex technologies, and for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change, and what it means for our daily lives. His track record of futuristic predictions is one of the best, often proving to be right even when initially opposed by mighty corporations and governments. He foresaw the power of fiber and wireless optics, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers, among many trends. His long-awaited Telecosm is a bible of the new age of communications. Equal parts science story, business history, social analysis, and prediction, it is the one book you need to make sense of the titanic changes underway in our lives.