AI, Blockchain, Crypto, and Life After Google
COSM is a premier national summit on the converging future of technology. Held in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the summit highlights the interplay between global innovations and the pullulating Seattle scene of some of the world’s leading tech companies responding to rapidly shifting opportunities. Focusing on the “systems of the world” competing to shape our economy and society, the mission of the conference is to stimulate debate and deliberation on the cosmic unities animating an array of apparently divergent technology areas. From artificial intelligence and blockchain to 5G and crypto-currency, from autonomous vehicles and cloud computing to the biotech revolution and internet commerce, it is all converging in Seattle, and at COSM.

The overthrow of matter in science leads plausibly to the ascendancy of information and mind in contemporary technology, and hence in economics as well.
George Gilder, Microcosm

The computer era is falling before the one technological force that could surpass in impact the computer’s ability to process and create information. That is communication, which is more essential to our humanity than computing is.
George Gilder, Telecosm

The first rule of the cryptocosm is the barn-door law: “Security first.” Security is not a procedure or a mechanism; it is an architecture.
George Gilder, Life After Google