Talk:George Gilder/Archives/2020

claims
Gilder claims that he correctly predicted all sorts of things, such as the role of the mobile telephone many years before even the first iphone. Can these claims be verified or demonstrated to be misleading or wrong? Kdammers (talk) 06:24, 21 March 2020 (UTC)


 * yeah, he totally did - I went out and bought "The Death Of Television" (1994 ed) just to check these claims, and he really did, 13 years ahead of time. Of course, all these ideas were in the air at the time - very little he says in "The Death Of Television" would surprise anyone who was on Usenet in the late 1980s - but they were absolutely not in the mainstream, and he brought them there. There's good reason people took Gilder seriously, and the shine didn't really come off until the Discovery Institute and the Wedge Document - David Gerard (talk) 12:31, 22 March 2020 (UTC)