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Publishers Weekly Likes Gilder Book, The Silicon Eye

Originally published at Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly published a review of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder's book The Silicon Eye.

Known for weaving engrossing stories from material knotted with numbing complexity, Gilder (Telecosm; Microcosm) delves once again into the world of high-tech business, this time focusing on the company Foveon and its efforts to develop a device that will allow digital machines to see as the human eye does. "Computers can perform instantaneous calculus… and search the entire contents of the Library of Congress in a disk-drive database," he writes. "But they cannot see. Even today, recognizing a face glimpsed in a crowd across an airport lobby, two human eyes can do more image processing than all the supercomputers in the world put together." The book traces a circuitous path in its investigation of Foveon's "silicon eye" — leading through discussions of the magnetic codes on paper checks and of notebook computer touchpads — but Gilder is a competent, eloquent guide.

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