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Gilder and Gingrich met in the early '80s, at the time when Wealth and Poverty was making waves. "I've had a friendly relationship with him for years," Gilder says, "particularly with the people around him." Gilder admits he does not have the close friendship with the new Speaker that the Tofflers enjoy. "But," he adds, "my ideology is more akin to Gingrich's." He also claims he knows more than the Tofflers do about such new technologies as fiber optics and semiconductors. "That's my business. Gingrich is interested in it. He's consulted me from time to time...
...quintessential Tofflers can be found in The Third Wave (1980), which Gingrich has called "one of the great seminal works of our time." The book's argument can easily be summarized. There have been three major changes, or waves, as the Tofflers like to call them, in human history. The first took place some 10,000 years ago, when certain hunter-gathering tribes discovered agriculture and settled down. The second occurred with the Industrial Revolution 300 years ago. People flocked to the cities, where the new manufacturing jobs sprang up; they were mass-educated for mass-production. Power shifted from...
...that the Tofflers and Gilder have constructed foresees the withering away -- thanks to the private access to technology -- of nation- states as they now artificially exist, of centralized authority, of outmoded political alliances and of all old-fashioned restraints on entrepreneurial imaginations. It is not hard to grasp why Gingrich the conservative outsider found this prospective shake-up attractive. But now that he has become the ultimate insider, the Speaker's reaction to the rich potential for cyberspace anarchy -- which apparently worries neither the Tofflers nor Gilder -- will be interesting to watch. Putting congressional proceedings online, which Gingrich has already...
...noise comes from talk radio. Its conservative hosts are the kings of AM radio and the kingmakers of the new Republican majority; one survey showed that hard-core listeners to the format voted 3-to-1 Republican. As could be expected, the hosts showed little interest in ribbing Newt Gingrich and the G.O.P. They had bigger fat to fry. Have a listen...
They knew how to do it too. Last September, when Gingrich announced the Contract with America, the Republican National Committee had lined up 300 talk-radio interviews for its signatories. Coordinating the blitz was Virginia's Contract Information Center, which has 500 radio talk shows on its superefficient fax network. CIC sent pro-Contract clips and talking points to the shows; many hosts read the material verbatim on the air. The scheme worked handsomely; the Rush Republicans went to the polls. Limbaugh's clout is immense; former Congressman Vin Weber says Rush is as responsible as anyone else...