The Road Ahead - CD-vel

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"Bill Gates is in fine form at what he does best-looking out. . . to see what's coming for technology and society." -Fortune
Bill Gates-whose vision of the personal computer propelled Microsoft into one of the world's leading companies-astonished the business community in 1996 by abruptly reinventing his entire company around the Internet. In this fully revised and updated edition of his bestseller, The Road Ahead. Gates explains why the Internet is revolutionizing not just Microsoft but everything else too-and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated. Gates describes the implications for everybody of a world connected by interactive computer networks, and addresses our most pressing questions.
How will our lives change? What about our children?
How long will it take? What are good opportunities?
Will our jobs become obsolete? How should we prepare?
What about privacy?
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring book, Gates shows how the new tools of the... Tovább

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"Bill Gates is in fine form at what he does best-looking out. . . to see what's coming for technology and society." -Fortune
Bill Gates-whose vision of the personal computer propelled Microsoft into one of the world's leading companies-astonished the business community in 1996 by abruptly reinventing his entire company around the Internet. In this fully revised and updated edition of his bestseller, The Road Ahead. Gates explains why the Internet is revolutionizing not just Microsoft but everything else too-and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated. Gates describes the implications for everybody of a world connected by interactive computer networks, and addresses our most pressing questions.
How will our lives change? What about our children?
How long will it take? What are good opportunities?
Will our jobs become obsolete? How should we prepare?
What about privacy?
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring book, Gates shows how the new tools of the Information Age are transforming forever the way we buy, work, learn, communicate, and have fun together. The Road Ahead is Gates's bird's-eye view of the undiscovered territory ahead—an authoritative, thought-provoking, and very readable guide for the journey
"Fun to read What really excites Gates is the 'magical' nature of the new electronic world we're about to enter." -James Atlas, The New York Times
"An important book. It comes with an excellent CD-ROM. If only 10 percent of this book actually happens, our lives will be transformed." -New York Post
CD-ROM includes the complete book text with hundreds of multimedia hyperlinks, a new interview with Bill Gates (which can also be heard on your audio CD player), video demonstrations of future technology, a World Wide Web browser, and more.
Bill Gates's proceeds from The Road Ahead will fund grants to encourage the use cf technology in education administered through the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education.
Cover photograph «1995 Annie Leibovltz/Contact Press Images. Cover design by Martin Ogolter. Vissza