Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World by George Gilder; Unabridged MP3 Audio Book; Narrator Jeff Riggenbach

The computer age is over. After a global run of thirty years, it has given birth to the age of the telecosm—the world enabled and defined by new communications technology. 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 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, famous for understanding and predicting complex technologies as well as for putting it all together in a soaring view of why things change and what it means for our daily lives. He foresaw the power of fiber optics and wireless networks, the decline of the telephone regime, and the explosion of handheld computers; now, he brings you the bible of the new age of communications.

“[A] riveting work of history and Web-age soothsaying…[Gilder is] more than just a whiz-kid technocrat; he has insights about economics, society, and well-known industry characters that will knock your socks off. This is indispensable listening for people touched in any way by the communications revolution. Jeff Riggenbach's reading is both intense and understated…the author's wry humor, as well as his confidence and grasp of his subject, will keep it on your front burner for the entire twelve hours.”—AudioFile

George Gilder is the author of Microcosm, the 1981 bestseller Wealth and Poverty, Life After Television, and Men and Marriage. He writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, National Review, American Spectator, Forbes, and other publications. He has been a fellow of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and is at present a senior fellow of the Hudson Institute. Gilder live in Tyringham, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.