The Road Ahead
by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Peter Rinearson
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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, 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.
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Information superhighway, Computer networks, Information technology, Computer industry, Telecommunication, Information superhighway -- United States, Large type books, Autobiografie, Computerindustrie, Geschichte, Technischer Fortschritt, Informationstechnik, Datenautobahn, Autopista de la información, Informática, Redes informáticas, Industria de computadoras, Telecomunicación, Technology, history, united states, Social aspects, Computers and civilization, Computers, social aspects, Technological innovations, Readers, Readers for new literates, Readers (Primary), Technologie de l'information, Prévision, Télécommunications, Prévisions, Ordinateurs, réseaux de, Autoroutes de l'information, Informatique, Industrie et commerce, Autoroute de l'information, Industrie de l'informatique, Réseau d'ordinateurs, Technologies de l'information, TélécommunicationPlaces
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La route du futur
1997, Robert Laffont
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Yong bao wei lai: "zi xun gao su gong lu" wei lai xin lan tu
1996, Yuan liu chu ban gong si
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The road ahead
1996, Penguin Books
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Bill Gates' 1995 analysis of the impact of information and computer technology on society and predictions about the future. Includes a great overview of ancient counting machines to mainframe big-iron to the dramatic changes of personal computing. Talks about the early years of Microsoft, Apple and Steve Jobs, DEC and Compaq, IBM and IBM compatibles. In addition, the importance of software and its complexity, power, and cost of production.
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