George Gilder (born 1939, in New York City) is a libertarian, right-wing, United States philosopher, futurology, and Author. He is a prominent oracle of Techno-utopianism. He is editor-in-chief of the Gilder Technology Report and chairman of Gilder Publishing LLC.

He helped found the Discovery Institute with Bruce Chapman.

Gilder writes books about technology and marriage. He has written articles for many publications include Wired Magazine magazine. His book Men and Marriage was one of the most scathing early criticisms of feminism. The first mention of the word Digerati on USENET occurred in 1992, and referred to an article by George Gilder in Upside magazine magazine. His other books include Life After Television , about the death of TV; Microcosm , about Carver Mead and the CMOS microchip revolution; Telecosm , about the promise of fiber optics; and his latest, The Silicon Eye , about the Foveon X3 sensor, a digital camera imager chip.

He was a long time supporter of The American Spectator magazine, and after becoming a Dot-com millionaire he purchased the magazine. His goal was to turn it into a profit-making glossly with significant media buzz. Numerous staff members, demoralized by the ever-looming budget crises, were laid off or departed after Gilder s hand-picked but inexperienced editors Richard Vigilante and George s cousin Joshua Gilder took the reins and vowed to reach a new technology- and business-savvy audience. Circulation and budget losses continued and even increased in the Gilder era, and at one point the entire Washington-based staff other than founder R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., and executive editor and web-site editor Wladyslaw Pleszczynski were laid off as operations were moved to rural Massachusetts, where the rest of George Gilder s businesses were based. Not long thereafter George Gilder, who had lost most of his fortune with the bursting of the Internet stock bubble, sold the magazine back to Tyrrell and the American Alternative Foundation for $1 in 2003, and it moved operations once-again to the Washington-D.C. area.

During the bubble years of the late 1990s, critics accused Gilder of front running ; purchasing stocks in little known companies and before using his media influence to drive up their prices, then dumping them on the market. In practice it is difficult to prove or disprove such accusations. In Gilder s case, the practice would not be illegal, since he was not a licensed broker or analyst. Many if not most of the compainies lauded by Gilder in his Gilder Report went bankrupt in the post 2000 Nasdaq meltdown. Gilder later claimed that he saw the Nasdaq meltdown coming, however he never shared this insight with his subscribers at the time, and his personal investment losses do not speak well of his prescience.

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