"Listen to the technology," Carver Mead, professor of physics at Caltech advised his famous student. George Gilder listened carefully. If he strained his ears enough, he believed he could almost hear the cosmos speaking. "Buy!" he thought he heard. Gilder did not usually buy. Judging from the press reports, he has about the same interest in picking stocks that we do…and the same fashion sense. But this Ulysses of the Telecosm had forgotten to plug his ears or have himself lashed to the mast. Thus, the sirens at Global Crossing got him…and drove him crazy. An article in the July … Continue reading End of the Gildered Age