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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (123590)9/4/2002 12:39:03 PM
From: Jon Koplik   of 152472
 
Text of July 2002 Wired magazine article on George Gilder :

wired.com

Here is some from the beginning :

The Madness of King George

George Gilder listened to the technology, and became guru of the
telecosm. The markets listened to his newsletter, and followed him
into the Global Crossing abyss. yet he's never stopped believing.

By Gary Rivlin

The lunch plates were cleared long ago, and the waitress gazes vacantly out over an otherwise
empty dining room. But George Gilder, his legs propped on a nearby chair, seems rooted in
place, not quite ready to leave. We're lingering at a restaurant down the street from his office in
Great Barrington, a hamlet set along a rural highway that winds through the southern tip of the
Berkshires in western Massachusetts. Here, one of the tech world's more famous - and
controversial - prophets is contemplating how he could have been so right over the past
half-dozen years and yet seen everything turn out so terribly wrong. A look of anguish clouds
his face.

"I knew that it was going to crash, I really did," Gilder says ...

Copyright © 2002 Wired Digital, Inc. All rights reserved.
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