George Gilder – Life After Google

The current internet infrastructure, dominated by advertising-supported models like Google, represents a broken paradigm that prioritizes data extraction over user privacy and transaction efficiency. Blockchain technology offers a necessary evolution, enabling a decentralized, hack-proof layer for commerce and communication that moves beyond the deterministic constraints of current search engines. Human intelligence remains fundamentally distinct from machine learning; while algorithms excel at processing data at high speeds, they lack the creative, non-deterministic capacity of the human mind, which operates with vastly superior energy efficiency. Silicon Valley’s reliance on "Google Marxism"—the belief that technology can achieve an eschaton that renders human labor and choice obsolete—ignores the reality that wealth is derived from the accumulation of knowledge and time, not merely the automated distribution of existing resources.