Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

by George Gilder

Book Overview

Television has long been identified as a dead hand on culture; but George Gilder suggests here that this centralized, authoritarian institution is also a dying technology and that the telecomputer - a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393311589
• ISBN13: 9780393311587
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Back to the future is great subtitle for Gilder's bible about TV

George Gilder is one of the new media visionaries who saw that television is really about screens and interface and content -- the big three not about programming or about Networks or about producers or even about writers. This truly one of the bibles of the new media industry although it was published many years before the Internet took off. I've enjoyed it and we used it as a reference in writing my own books. It's still a fascinating resource for those of you who are creating new content.

amazing

Fiber and wireless, he is amazingly correct in predicting the technology trends, can't wait to see what he is going to talk about in his next book.

More than a TV treatise! Better prognosticator than Popcorn!

George Gilder has been hailed as one of the foremost science and technology writers for Forbes Magazine. His book, Wealth and Poverty, was one of the "Bibles" of '80s supply-side economics. Although I may not totally agree with his economic views, his extensive research of telecommunications and how this vast and intertwined conglom of industries affects humanity is unquestionably thorough, thought provoking, intellegent, and timely. Some craggy rocks which potentially ground Gilder's predictions of a tidal wave on the technoscape are FCC auctions; mis-directed consumer advertising; lack of consumer education on what cell phone towers "really" are (you know, fear of radiation, cancer scare, etc.), and the inability of competing telecoms, cable companies, computer megopolies, etal to install fiber-optic cable and satellites at a break-neck enough pace. All I know is, wherever TCI has tried Internet services, the "Alpha Test" consumers not only wouldn't give it up after the test was over, some people would not move to an area where they couldn't purcase the service! So readers: Ride premiere prognosticator Gilder's technowave, and be one of the first to hang ten in a prospective post-Mellenium promised land! And be sure to pick up his other books, such as Microcosm. I believe he is updating this for 1998, and he's "write-on" in his first edition. Surf's up!

Gilder is the best in predicting technology / economy.

As former Director of Broadcast Engineering for Alabama Public Television, (America's oldest PBS Network) I can say that my 38 years of Telecom, Technology, and Broadcast experience strongly suggests that everthing I've ever read by George Gilder is excellent. George's books and Forbes /ASAP articles are an excellent reference for anyone concerned in how technology has and will continue to affect the economy of the U.S. and the World. James Foley -- Alpha Communications & OMNI Telecom