COSM is an exclusive national summit on the converging technologies remaking the world as we know it. For decades, George Gilder has written presciently about the technological revolutions shaping our world, from the microchip in Microcosm, broadband in Telecosm, and the cryptocosm in Life After Google. COSM 2026 will chart the parallel shifts in technology, and in the culture. COSM 2026 will be November 18-20 at the Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, AZ.
Cosm — the root of the English words cosmos, microcosm, and cosmopolitan — comes from the Greek word kósmos and means order, government, world, universe.
Reality Check
As Albert Einstein famously warned in an Oxford speech in 1933, “Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards to reality.”
In an age of simulated worlds and “singularities” — AI, AGI, and xAI, and the proliferating large language models and small-minded logic machines — COSM 2026 offers an Einsteinian Reality Check.
Transcending multi-gigawatt data centers, we’re gathering something far more powerful: human minds — operating on just a dozen watts, yet capable of insight, imagination, and discovery. Against the race to quantum computing and qubit counting at near-zero Kelvin, we bring together living intelligence — thinking, creating, and debating in balmy Scottsdale.
To the rise of purely analytical, left-brain machines, we’re bringing right-brain imagination and creativity.
To catacombs of scarcity and greed, we’re bringing bonanzas of superabundance in an information theory of economics.
It’s COSMic as ever. And true to scale: from micro to nano and pico, from billions to uncountable trillions, from milliseconds to millennia, and infinitesimals mounting to infinities.
This COSM is countering materialist superstitions with an incandescence of human consciousness and cognition. To sandcastles of chips and chiplets, meshed amid mazes of links and lasers, interposers and transceivers of codes, we bring the majestic simplicities of wafer scale and human scale.
To fears of carbon pollution, we offer a carbon solution of graphene and a vista of 2D transformations. In contrast to the sterile vision of sexless machines, we celebrate the full humanity of embodied minds — men and women thinking, creating, and discovering together.
Dashing human dreams of glory and divinity decades ago, Popstar physicist Carl Sagan told us that the multitude of stars in the universe outnumbers all the grains of sand on the world’s beaches. The Reality Check offers a different perspective: not fewer wonders, but more — each grain of sand itself a universe of possibility.
Drawing on the work of topological physicist Jennifer Cano, which reveals the rich and intricate structure of matter at the smallest scales, COSM takes a further step. We celebrate each grain of sand as a gift of mind — containing more electrons than the universe has stars — offering a silicon constellation of new possibilities for human realization and creativity in the image of our Creator.
COSM 2026 is a gathering grounded in reality — yet open to the fullest horizons of human purpose, creativity, and innovation.
The future meets here. Come join us.