The guru of high technology and a man whose "slightest utterance can move stocks" ("The Wall Street Journal") presents a clear, cogent vision of the future of telecommunications, what it will mean in readers everyday lives, and how savvy investors can get on the bandwagon today.

Contents

Prologue: Abundance and Scarcity

Part One: New Light

1. Maxwell's Rainbow

2. The Imperial Science

3. Enter the Laser

4. The Light-Speed Limit

Part Two: The New Paradigm

5. The Road to the Fibersphere

6. The Collapse of the Seven Layers

7. The Law of the Telecosm

8. The Wireless New World

9. The Satellite Ethersphere

10. The Coming of Component Software

11. The Storewidth Paradigm

Part Three: Revolt Against Abundance

12. Betting Against Bandwidth

13. Tilting Against Monsters

Part Four: The Triumphal Telecosm

14. The Rise of a Paradigm Star

15. Deluge of Dumb Bandwidth

16. Searching for a New Intel

17. The TeraBeam Era

Part Five: The Meaning of the Light

18. The Lifespan Limit

19. The Point of Light

Afterword: The Twenty Laws of the Telecosm

Appendix A. A List of Telecosm Players

Appendix B. Nine Stars of the Telecosm

Appendix C. The Telecosm Glossary

Acknowledgements

Index

George Franklin Gilder is an investor, author, economist, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute.