In George Gilder’s 2018 book entitled Life After Google he discusses how we have managed to reach the technological oligarchic state that we are in. He also talks about how it has already reached its apex and will be replaced by a more open-sourced and decentralized future. In the final chapters of his book he outlines what he believes will replace the current system. It should be no great surprise that he believes decentralized ledger technology (blockchain) and crypto will be a big part of what’s next to come.
In Chapter 23: The Great Unbundling he lists his favorite and most influential blockchain projects / companies. Blockstack comes in at number 4 on the list which includes (in order): Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitmain, Blockstack, NEO, Cardano, EOS and IOTA.
Life After Google
George Gilder copyright 2018
Chapter 23: The Great Unbundling
“Blockstack has been in operation on the Net for four years, with hundreds of thousands of users It is a platform for security and identity for a new distributed internet. It provides a domain name service rooted in the bitcoin blockchain, a $25 million dollar venture fund, and a scalable model that reserves the blockchain for pointers to memory addresses rather than for data storage itself. It thus uses the blockchain for what a blockchain can offer – security, identity, and trust – while freeing the blockchain from what it cannot offer – huge transaction speeds and storage space. Its key figures and Muneeb Ali, Ryan Shae, Luke Nelson and Michael J. Freedman of Princeton. “
