Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And TechnologyThe crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions, revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictGilder connects his fascination with the computer as a savior of the conservative ethic with his mystical economic theories (as in his Wealth and Poverty , LJ 3/1/81) in this densely written account ... Read full review
Contents
Preface | 11 |
THE OVERTHROW OF MATTER Chapter 1 The Message from the Microcosm | 17 |
The Prophet | 32 |
Wires and Switches | 46 |
THE TECHNOLOGY OF MIND Chapter 4 The Silicon Imperative | 61 |
The Monolithic Idea | 73 |
Flight Capital | 82 |
Intel Memories | 91 |
The New Balance of Power | 220 |
THE IMPERIAL COMPUTER | 233 |
Patterns and Analogies | 235 |
Analog People | 247 |
The Age of Intelligent Machines | 262 |
The IBM Machine | 280 |
The Neural Computer | 290 |
The Death of Television | 307 |
Intel Minds | 101 |
The Curve of Declining Entropy | 113 |
Japans Microcosm | 127 |
THE TRANSFORMATION OF CAPITAL 163 | 129 |
The CMOS Slip | 139 |
Mountain of Memories | 150 |
Meads Theory | 165 |
From Boltzmann to Conway | 180 |
The Silicon Compiler | 193 |
Competing Visions | 208 |
THE QUANTUM ECONOMY | 317 |
The New American Challenge | 319 |
Revolt against the Microcosm | 331 |
The Law of the Microcosm | 345 |
The Eclipse of Geopolitics | 353 |
Triumph over Materialism | 371 |
Bibliographical Notes | 385 |
Acknowledgments | 403 |
Index | 407 |
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