The Road Ahead

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•What is the information highway? • How will the new technology change our lives? • Do I have to learn to use a computer? • Will my job become obsolete? Welcome to The Road Ahead. We have all been bombarded by the seemingly endless hype about the information highway and the coming age of technology. Now, Bili Gates-who built Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in the world-gives us his vision of what the future holds for us. The Road Ahead is his bird's-eye view of the undiscovered territory on the information highway-an authoritative, thought-provoking, and very readable travel guide for the journey. In this optimistic and refreshingly realistic book, Gates looks ahead to show how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives. As he says, we are on the brink of a new revolution, and crossing a technology threshold that will forever change the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other. In The Road Ahead, Gates takes us back to when he chose to drop out of Harvard to start his own software company in order to participate in the rise of the personal computer he foresaw. Just as the personal computer revolutionized the way we work, the tools of the information age-which are, even now, becoming everyday reality-will transform the way we make choices about almost everything.
Bill Gates is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. Led by the belief that personal computers would be on every desktop and in every home, he co-founded Microsoft in 1975. His enduring vision and goal of making software easier and more enjoyable for people are central to Microsoft's success and continue to shape the entire software industry. Born and raised in Seattle, Bili and his wife, Melinda, still reside in the Seattle area. Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D., is Group Vice President, Applications & Content Group, at Microsoft Corporation. He joined Microsoft in 1986, when it acquired a company he had founded, Dynamical Systems. Myhrvold alsó held a position at Cambridge University working with Stephen Hawking and received a doctorate in theoretical/mathematical physics from Princeton University. He is a member of the U.S. Advisory Council on the National Information Infrastructure. Peter Rinearson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who met Bili Gates in 1982, when he wrote the first major newspaper profilé of Gates and Microsoft. Rinearson wrote the leading books on the use of Microsoft Word and founded Alki Software Corporation. He is alsó president of Raster Ranch, Ltd., a digital production studio. Vissza