Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World

And that one was very interesting.

There's a book over my shoulder here called Telecosm by George Gilder.

And he really dissects the fiber boom and he's spot on.

And he wrote... more than 20 years ago and looked ahead and he nailed it.

And if you have all the data and you know the data, don't use water and they're going to bring you some economic benefits and they don't pollute your air and they're not going to make your electrical rates go up, but you still don't want one because you just don't want a big building in your backyard, like totally get it, right? That's your right as a member of a community.

But let's get the data out there.

Well, you mentioned the book, The Telecosm, earlier.

I see you have Friedrich Hayek over your shoulder as well.

I can date the onset of my unease to the day I met Ray Kurzweil, the deservedly famous inventor of the first reading machine for the blind and many other amazing things.

Ray and I were both speakers at George Gilder's Telecosm conference, and I encountered him by chance in the bar of the hotel after both of our sessions were over.

I was sitting with John Searle, a Berkeley philosopher who studies consciousness.

While we were talking, Ray approached and a conversation began, the subject of which haunts me to this day.