So George Gilder is a neocon's neocon. Co-founded the Discovery Institute (of "teach the controversy" "intelligent design" fame). Laffer Curve? Voodoo Economics, for sure, but also a mathematical expression of the moral underpinnings of Morning in America. We're talking about a guy who thinks the best thing for America is men working without taxes to support women because God wanted it that way.

He recently wrote a little book that basically says we don't need to worry about Facebook, Google or Amazon because smart contracts and NFTs are going to make them all extinct within ten years. He wasn't sure if it was going to be Ethereum or Ripple that we'd all use; he made room for the idea that there's no need for one blockchain to rule them all and that Bitcoin would probably go to a million simply because banks are obsolete. Either way, his take was that blockchain tech allows people to do that stuff we rely on big tech to do, without big tech siphoning off our privacy and money.

It's worth a read, neocon viewpoint notwithstanding. There's an odd bit in there that's basically "the ballad of Robert Mercer."