**George Gilder *, one of the leading economic and technological thinkers of the past forty years, is the author of nineteen books, including Wealth and Poverty *, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money, and Life after Google. A founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his stud...

**George Gilder *, one of the leading economic and technological thinkers of the past forty years, is the author of nineteen books, including Wealth and Poverty *, Knowledge and Power, The Scandal of Money, and Life after Google. A founding fellow of the Discovery Institute, where he began his study of information theory, and an influential venture investor, he lives with his wife in western Massachusetts