Technology

This article, published by The SunSentinel, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Hance Haney: A recent study by Hance Haney of the Discovery Institute found that Florida could receive an economic impact of $7.5 billion through greater broadband availability and potentially add or save 143,405 jobs. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by The Cutting Edge, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Gilder has now written over 15 books, including the incendiary Sexual Suicide (later reprinted as Men and Marriage), the ground-breaking Wealth and Poverty, which helped fuel the supply-side revolution, and more recently Microcosm, marking his emergence as high-tech guru. The rest of the article can be found here.

Should we fear the rise of ‘intelligent’ computers? In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of “Jeopardy!,” the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the two previous human champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. At the end of the first round, aired on Valentine’s Day, Jennings Read More ›

This article, published by The Wall Street Journal, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: “Eat People” does outsource a bit of its argument to the futurist and technology guru George Gilder. We hear morsels of deep thought from Mr. Gilder as he sips a fine Bordeaux that Mr. Kessler brings to lunch. We get more from Gilder emails. The Read More ›

This article, published by Forbes, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: Our guest this week is George Gilder, Chairman of Gilder Technology Group, which sponsors Gilder Telecosm Forum, a Web-based conference related to his longtime publication Gilder Technology Report. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, mentions a study done by Discovery Institute: A recent study by the Discovery Institute, commissioned by Wired Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Technology Council, concluded more than 50,000 jobs could be created statewide if telecom regulations are recast. The rest of the article can be found here.

This article, published by NextGenWeb, contains an interview with Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: NextGenWeb recently sat down with George Gilder, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute, Editor in Chief of the Gilder Technology Report, and contributing editor to Forbes magazine (for a complete bio, click here). The rest of the article can be found here.