Gilder does go further than most in picking champions. For instance, he says that JDS Uniphase will achieve the same dominance of the telecosm that Intel currently enjoys. Yes, he really writes like that. The flow of the book can be as difficult as the prose. Gilder does provide a useful reader s guide to this epic work, which he has been writing, and publishing pieces of, for the past eight years.
Some sections can be fun to read.
He is particularly good in the section on the development of science, where he tells gossipy tales that show how entrepreneurs developed the technologies that are forming the telecosm. Still, expect to have to work at this book, to find some of it confusing, and to disagree with much of it. Even Gilder can t possibly believe all the things he writes. But read it, anyway. Telecosm s breadth, detail, insight, and entertainment quotient make it an important book.