Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson

George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future

AUDIO ONLY Author of Life After Google, George Gilder on the future of technology.

Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson•September 24, 2018
George Gilder: Forget Cloud Computing, Blockchain is the Future

Recorded on August 28, 2018

Is blockchain the technology of the future? George Gilder, author of Life After Google, argues that bitcoin and blockchain technology is revolutionizing the internet. He sits down with Peter Robinson to discuss technology, cloud computing, big data, and the growing role of blockchain in innovating new technologies.

Gilder argues that cloud computing, while it was the hot new technology ten years ago, has reached its limits as the physical limitations of big data storage centers maxes out. Improvements in parsing big data are incremental at this point and it’s time for the next big technology to take its place. Gilder points to blockchain as the technology of the future with its ability to prevent corruption and manipulation of transaction data and the infinite uses the technology could have in third world countries.

Gilder discusses the history of technology, artificial intelligence, and the revolutionary bitcoin. He argues that artificial intelligence can never replace human intelligence and creativity and that in principle, it is impossible for machines to take over.

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George Gilder

George Gilder

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