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Democracy & Technology Blog Another Tech Summit Shifts from West Coast to Arizona as State Rises in Advanced Manufacturing

George Gilder
November 3, 2025
COSM
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 Originally published at Phoenix Business Journal

The following excerpt comes from an article published in the Phoenix Business Journal by George Gilder on Friday, October 31. It explains why we have moved COSM, our annual conference on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it, from Seattle to Phoenix. We invite you to join the brightest minds Nov. 19-21 to explore the future of emerging technologies. Register at cosm.tech.

How did Arizona suddenly surge into the center of transformative new technology?

For nearly 50 years, we have held COSM tech conferences around the country. Nearly all took place in Seattle, where Microsoft and Amazon reign, or in Silicon Valley, home to Intel, Meta, Google, and hundreds of tech vendors.

But this year, all our sensors and signaling devices lit up whenever we cite Arizona. Why your state?

Continue Reading at Phoenix Business Journal

George Gilder

Senior Fellow and Co-Founder of Discovery Institute
George Gilder is Chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. A co-founder of Discovery Institute, Mr. Gilder is a Senior Fellow of the Center on Wealth & Poverty, and also directs Discovery’s Technology and Democracy Project. His latest book, Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (2018), Gilder waves goodbye to today’s Internet.  In a rocketing journey into the very near-future, he argues that Silicon Valley, long dominated by a few giants, faces a “great unbundling,” which will disperse computer power and commerce and transform the economy and the Internet.