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Now is your chance to register for the Gilder/Forbes Telecosm
Conference, to be held November 4-6, 2001 at the Fairmont Hotel in
San Francisco. (For an updated agenda and additional conference
details, go to http://tm0.com/forbes/sbct.cgi?s=217208226&i=398248&d=1848540 )

This summer I declared in The Wall Street Journal that we stood on
the brink of the "Telechasm"--a high-tech depression driven by a
long siege of deflationary monetary policy and obtuse regulation
that has shriveled hundreds of debt-laden telecom companies and
brought Internet expansion to a halt.

Then came the events of September 11th. Desperate Luddites armed
with hijacked technologies and apocalyptic grudges aimed a stake at
the heart of our markets and the infrastructures of freedom they
symbolize. But the network stood. And now we are sifting through
the fallout, looking for answers to the essential question: What next?

Even before September 11 we stood at a pivotal moment in the
history of the Telecosm (the intelligent, networked communications
infrastructure enabled by advanced technologies.) Passion and
innovation are at an all-time high and stock prices are at an
all-time low. Wall Street and Washington are waging war on the key
sources of renewal and invention that drive forward the broadband
future.

In short we have on our hands a crisis that we must turn into an
opportunity if the dreams we have all pursued for so many years are
not to be aborted by adversity.

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Since I launched it five years ago, the Gilder-Forbes Telecosm
conference has been designed as a place where business leaders come
to "listen to the technology" and divine the strategic
imperatives for the industry. A place where the greatest minds and
movers, entrepreneurs and engineers from our world gather to debate
sometimes with surprising ferocity the future of our common
enterprise, to test grand visions against the imperious realities
of the physical world and the horizons of the technology.

Telecosm is a lot more than talk. It's a breeding ground for new
companies, new money, new opportunity, new stars, and even new laws
of physics and technology (every year from the likes of Carver
Mead, Bill Joy, Bob Metcalfe, and Ray Kurzweil.)

This year the debate will be more important than ever. For the sake
of both our nation and our industry we have a crucial task to do.
The Telecosm is supremely the realm of what have been called "the
technologies of freedom", the technologies which inherently
undermine any form of tyranny whether a dictatorial government, or
the new tyranny of terror that the Luddites would unleash.
Information is power said a wise man once, and by liberating
information our technologies liberate mankind.

Those same technologies can also find alternatives to the grim
prospect of "locking down" our free society in order to thwart,
or uncover, a handful of terrorists who threaten it. By finding
solutions in freedom, they can also save hundreds of billions now
being budgeted for private and public security, and police and
military solutions.

That is just one of the challenges we face. It is also time for the
leaders of the Telecosm to get political in other ways. On at least
two counts, Washington is the leading suspect in the bloodletting
we have all been through over the past 18 months, and it is time to
come together to do something about that too.

For all these reasons, we are, even as I write this, dramatically
enhancing the agenda for Telecosm, which we have now rescheduled
for November 4, 5, and 6 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
Every day we are adding crucial leaders from our industry, from the
political world, and the capital markets. In this special time--and
for this very special Telecosm only--we have moved Telecosm to San
Francisco to make it easier for most industry leaders to get there
despite travel challenges.

If you have been to one of my Telecosm conferences before, you know
why you need to come back this year. If you have never been to
one, then this is the one to come to. You'll find all the
conference details you need at
http://tm0.com/forbes/sbct.cgi?s=217208226&i=398248&d=1848540 -- including the
up-to-the-minute conference agenda and other critical information.


There are three things I get out of a great conference and Telecosm
delivers all three in abundance:

1. Rapid progress on the learning curve. The leaders of the pack
are always at Telecosm, and the news they bear this year is
absolutely crucial to the next 18 months of our industry, perhaps
the most decisive since Ciena launched commercial WDM in 1996.

2. Intimate conversations with the leaders of our industry and the
hottest new companies proposing to join that leadership. Sure the
program is great. But as always I am tempted to just can the
program and spend three days talking in the hallways and conference
rooms. Whether you're looking for allies or acquisitions, clients
or vendors, investments or investors, you need to be there.

3. But the biggest reason is the hardest one to explain. Just call
it serendipity. The upside surprise. Every time I go to a great
conference some speaker or company from whom I wasn't expecting
much amazes me. I always end up realizing that the whole cost of
the conference-especially my time, always the biggest cost-was more
than covered by that one crucial encounter.

But this year there is an even bigger reason. We need to come
together, not only physically, but personally, strategically,
politically, even spiritually for the sake of the dream we have
dreamed together these many years, and for country and the world
for which we dream it.

Come and be a part of the future.

With admiration and thanks,

George Gilder

PS: I have included a hotlink to the usual registration form for
you to complete. But I don't really want you to wait that long
to decide. Just pick up the phone and call my conference
registrars at 1-800-720-1112 today and reserve your place.
They'll provide you everything you need to know and will take
care of all the details regarding your conference attendance while
you're in San Francisco.