- 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,
Bill 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 in 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,
Bill 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 also
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 Bill Gates in 1982, when he wrote the
first major newspaper profile of Gates and Microsoft. Rinearson
wrote the leading books on the use of Microsoft Word and
founded Alki Software Corporation. He is also president
of Raster Ranch, Inc., a digital production studio.
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