Bill Gates
Technology today is present in our everyday lives. ATMs, watches, PC's right down to the TV we watch everynight, technology plays a major role. Who determines what will be next? It is not the topic of what will be next that this paper will deal with but the person who will have a hand in it and his insights and predictions, Bill Gates and the Microsoft corporation. " The Road Ahead" written by Bill Gates founder of Microsoft, reads like a Nostradamis forecasting book. The book answers seven major questions: "How will our lives change?"," How long will it take?", "Will our jobs become obsolete?"," What about privacy?", "What about our children?"," What are good opportunities?", and "How should we prepare?". Bill Gates " The Road Ahead completely revised and up-to-date" is the second edition to his best selling book "The Road Ahead". The book comes with a interactive CD-ROM that gives you a look ahead of things to come, a tour of the Gate's multi-million dollar house in S!eattle Washington, a sit down interview with Mr. Gates on were the Internet and Microsoft is going, direct access to The Road Ahead web site and the text of The Road Ahead complete with hundreds of multimedia hyperlinks. It is in these three hundred plus p
Chapters four five and six deals with the future of the Internet and how it will effect us in everyday life. It brings up futuristic items that may or may not come true. The book is dated in 1996 and deals with the most current technology of the that time. Moore's law , were the speed and technology will double in eighteen months time, has taken effect. Reading this book three years from when it was written, the reader can see how accurate Bill Gate's predictions really are. One item that the book mentions is the use of ISDN lines(integrated services digital network) that would allow us to transmit at speed from 64,000 to 128,000 bits per second. Cyberstation, a Internet provider for the Wichita Falls area, sent an electronic mail to all it's customers asking to sign up for ISDN line into your home for $50 to $75 a month. Just as written in the book at that time an ISDN line was $500 but he( Bill Gates) said in time it would come down to $50 to $20. He also makes reference to! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ at interest to see the Internet expand to include video and audio exchange. With the introduction of even midband networking, the speed in which people are able to access the Internet will increase greatly. Mr. Gates's look ahead is not far off. If anybody has the foresight to see ahead on what is to come, Bill Gates is that person. One reason why most of what Bill Gates predicts will come true is that him and Microsoft will help develop this technology. ocedures and pilots on how to fly. Some of these practices are already in there beginning stages. Bill see the virtual reality aspect go to new levels with the introduction of connecting a computer to a human's nerves system. This may be decades away and people may have a great debates on this very topic, like people argue the right of free choice, I feel it will be a reality someday. All these instruments of broadband networks and better presentations tools are not a dream but a look into the future. ages that Bill Gates foresees what and how life will change. If this paper were to deal with all if Mr. Gates's predictions, it would exceed the 1500 to 2000 word limit. It is the scope of this paper to deal with several topics that this writer feels is crucial to development of technology and were it is going and how it is going to get there. s as Excel, Word and PowerPoint. Microsoft has not stopped with the development of the Office
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Approximate Word count = 1674
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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