03-06-2006, 01:00 AM
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Swami
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 4,303
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10 Years On: "The Road Ahead"
"Love him or loathe him, there's no denying the achievements of William Henry Gates III. You may not agree with Microsoft's business practices but it's questionable that you would be sat here reading this today without the vision and sheer determination of one bespeckled �ber-geek from Seattle. Gates transformed himself from Harvard drop-out to World's Richest Man within two short decades, witnessing the death of the traditional mainframe and minicomputers and the birth of the Personal Computer (PC)."
For some historic off topic reading, how about a spin through the past 10 years of computing? Why? Well, it's been ten years since Bill Gates wrote a book about his vision of where computing was going, called "The Road Ahead". Yogi Berra once said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." Overall Bill comes out pretty well, with a good number of hits and few misses. The Bit-Techs article is good recap of where we've been and where we might be going in IT.
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03-06-2006, 04:58 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 312
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Wonder when can I get the audio version on iTunes... :twisted:
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03-06-2006, 06:03 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 52
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Road Again
It came out pre-98 with a CD. Trouble is it will not play in today's flavor of Windows. Ironic that forecasts from past are silent by the technology of the future. :?
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03-06-2006, 04:21 PM
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Linear Mode
