Life After Television (Revised): The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life

by George Gilder (Author), George Gilder (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1985

  $19.95

  In Life After Television, George Gilder imagines a world in which the boob tube has given way to the living room telecomputer. . . . Mr. Gilder's case is galvanic, at times even intoxicating. -Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal

• Used

  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.25

  Television has long been identified as a dead hand on culture; but George Gilder suggests here that this centralized, authoritarian institution is also a dying technology and that the telecomputer - a powerful interactive system that will affect all aspects of life, from education to business to leisure time - will replace it. America is presently at the forefront of telecomputer development, but government restrictions - such as those that limit the wide use of fibre-optic technology - may hinder the American companies in the vanguard. Gilder's optimistic message is that the United States has only to unleash its industrial resources to command the telefuture , in which new technology will overthrow the stultifying influence of mass media and renew the power of individuals.