George Gilder AKA George Franklin Gilder Born: 29-Nov-1939 Birthplace: New York City
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Pundit Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States Executive summary: Technological futurist pundit Former speech writer for Nelson Rockefeller and Richard M. Nixon. Frequent contributor to Forbes, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal. His prognostications have had mixed results.
Great-great-grandfather was Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany & Co.. Godfather was David Rockefeller. One of his Harvard roommates was Bruce Chapman, Discovery Institute founder. Father: Richard Gilder (ACLU attorney, d. WWII) Mother: Anne Alsop Wife: Nini Gilder (four children) Daughter: Nannina Gilder (b. circa 1986)
High School: Phillips Exeter Academy University: Harvard University (1962)
Forbes Contributing Editor Club for Growth Discovery Institute Senior Fellow National Conservative Campaign Fund National Advisory Board The Independent Institute Advisory Board World Technology Network Evolution Skeptics
Author of books:
Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America The Party That Lost Its Head (1966, politics) Sexual Suicide (1973, social studies) Visible Man: A True Story of Post-Racist America (1978, social studies) Wealth and Poverty (1981, social studies) The Spirit of Enterprise (1984, nonfiction) Men and Marriage (1986, social studies) Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology (1989, nonfiction) Life After Television (1990, social studies) Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise (1992, nonfiction) Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (2000, nonfiction) The Silicon Eye: How a Silicon Valley Company Aims to Make All Current Computers, Cameras, and Cell Phones Obsolete (2005, corporate history) The Israel Test (2009, nonfiction)
Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.
Do you know something we don't?
Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile
Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications
|