Microcosm (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: George Gilder
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Economics; science and technology
- Time of Work: The 1960’s to the 1980’s, with historical background
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: Carver Mead, Andrew Grove (Anders Graf), Walter Jeremiah (Jerry) Sanders III, Lynn Conway, Robert Widlar, Raymond Kurzweil, Fred Jelinek
- Genres: Nonfiction, Economics
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Science or scientists, Economics, Information science or systems, Technology, Computers, Physics or physicists, Atoms
- Locales: United States
Books about economics do not usually begin with a discussion of quantum physics, but George Gilder’s Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology breaks more than one convention. Quantum physics has shown that subatomic particles do not operate in the same way as ordinary physical objects. By using and extending the concepts of quantum physics, computer pioneers developed the microchip computer, and Gilder thinks that the microchip will radically alter the pattern of industry. Large corporations will decline, the United States will triumph over Japan on the...
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