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George Gilder, born in 1939, is an American libertarian philosopher, futurologist, antifeminist, anti-evolution, techno-utopian intellectual, and cyber-optimist.

=**Education**=

Exeter Academy [|Harvard University], graduated in 1962

=Awards=


 * The White House Award for Entrepreneurial Excellence (1986)

=Works=


 * Assistant founder, editor of __Advance__, a journal of political thought
 * Co-author (with Bruce Chapman) of __The Party That Lost Its Head__
 * Co-editor of __Ripon Forum__
 * Speech writer for Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, and Richard Nixon, etc.
 * Author of __Men and Marriage__ (1972)
 * Author of __Visible Man__ (1978)
 * Author of __Wealth and Poverty__ (1981)
 * Editorial page of __The Wall Street Journal__
 * Author of The Spirit of Enterprise (1986, republished in 1992)
 * Author of __Microcosm__ (1989)
 * Author of __Life After Television__ (1992, republished in 1994)
 * Author of __Telecosm__ (2000)
 * Author of __The Silicon Eye__ (2005)
 * Founder and contributor to __Forbes ASAP__
 * Editor of __Forbes__
 * Writer of __The Economist__
 * Writer of __The Harvard Business Review__

=Theory=

What he dismissed:

 * HDTV and interactive television
 * 3DO game machines
 * CD-I multimedia
 * TDMA
 * Nextel cellular compression
 * pervasive ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) networks

What he embraced:

 * All-optical networks
 * Smart radios
 * Qualcomm
 * Stratacom frame relay
 * Mediaprocessors
 * Netscape browsers
 * Sun's programming language

=Contact George Gilder=

Email George Gilder: info@gilder.com Call Gilder Publishing, LLC: (413) 644-2100

=Works Cited=

__Big Thinkers - George Gilder__. KurzweilAI.net. February 25, 2006 .

__Technology and Democracy – George Gilder Archives__. Discovery Institute. February 25, 2006 .

=Images Credits=

“George Gilder.” Online image. Duke University. February 25, 2006 .

“The Silicon Eye.” Online image. Amazon.com. February 26, 2006 .