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Description Of Bill Gates At 30
I like Bill Gates the philanthropist, though Bill Gates the extrepreneur was a real a-hole. Longreads put up a link to a Fortune profile about Bill Gates from 1986, when the 30-year-old tech titan was...
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“Through Computers, And The Internet, The Notion Of Amateurs Working Together...
Tyler Cowen: "Maybe it is stretching the concept, but you can interpret Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as amateurs too." An excerpt from a post by economist Tyler Cowen on Marginal Revolution about the...
View Article“Oh No, Allow Me, You Got The Last One”
The future of mobile commerce, as predicted by Bill Gates in a CD that came with his 1995 book, The Road Ahead. Microsoft’s new video predicting the future of tech:
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“Bill Gates Didn’t Think The Internet Would Be Big”
In his speech, “Libraries: Where It All Went Wrong,” Nat Torkington (not to be confused with Karl Pilkington) draws a parallel between how book-lending facilities were destabilized by the Internet in...
View Article“Of The Great Entrepreneurs Of This Era, People Will Have Forgotten Steve Jobs”
Malcolm Gladwell recently discussing entrepreneurship in Toronto, reassessing tech titans Jobs and Gates. (Thanks Cnet.)
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“Microsoft Had A Prototype E-Reader Ready To Go In 1998″
The toughest thing for a company to do is to become successful. The second toughest thing is to survive success and continue innovating. From a new Vanity Fair piece about the decline of Microsoft:...
View Article“We Will Have Serious Voice Recognition”
Bill Gates predicted Apple’s Siri in 1987. From the great Paleofuture blog at the Smithsonian: “Gates predicts the perfection of a technology that has been around for decades, but one that many people...
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“It May Well Change The World”
The opening of “A Robot in Every Home,” Bill Gates’ famous 2007 Scientific American piece which compared the nascent robotics industry to computers of the Homebrew era: “Imagine being present at the...
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“Things Are A Lot Better Than They Were 200 Years Ago”
A few exchanges follow from the new Bill Gates Ask Me Anything on Reddit. _______________________ Question: What’s your worst fear for the future of the world? Answer: Hopefully we won’t have...
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“I Wanted To Share With You A Look At Their Work On Creating Alternatives To...
The opening of Bill Gates’ self-published multimedia, slide-show piece, “The Future of Food,” in which the technologist and philanthropist is encouraged by in vitro alternatives to protein-rich meals:...
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“Dealing With Refusals Is A Huge Part Of This”
Bill Gates has, unsurprisingly, taken a data-driven approach to disease eradication during his second and staggering act as a philanthropist of the highest rank. Aiming to eliminate polio in the near...
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“I Guess It’s Fun, Because You Shoot Rockets Up In The Air”
Two exchanges from the new Bill Gates interview in Businessweek in which he criticizes, unfairly I think, the high-tech endeavors of Brin & Page, Bezos and Musk. ____________________ Question:...
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“Hey, This Thing Is Happening Without Us”
Following up his authorized Steve Jobs bio, Walter Isaacson is writing a book about the icons of the Digital Era. Let’s hope he employs a large team of fact-checkers because such people tend to be...
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“Gates Often Sounds At Odds With The New Generation Of Billionaire Technocrats”
Because Bill Gates has only done three million interviews thus far in his life, the Financial Times’ headline writers thought they should label the paper’s new dialogue with him as “exclusive.” The...
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“The Dream Of Having The World Database At Your Fingertips Will Have Become A...
In 1987, two software moguls, Bill Gates and Dr. Timothy Leary, were asked by Omni to make predictions about life 20 years in the future. Gates was more accurate in his prognostications, though Leary...
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“They Went Around The Country And Created Computer Clubs Everyplace They Went”
At Medium, Walter Isaacson posted a new excerpt (which awaits your crowdsourcing) from his forthcoming book on Silicon Valley creators. His latest segment concerns the famed Homebrew Computer Club,...
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“Well, That Was Quick”
Magnus Carlsen, best chess player in the world, destroys Bill Gates in nine moves.
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“Can You Describe Your New Role At Microsoft?”
Bill Gates’ As Me Anythings are always among the best, with wide-ranging and intelligent discussion. A few exchanges from the most recent one at Reddit. _________________________ Question: Hey Bill,...
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“It’s All So Brand New That There’s Nothing To Go By Yet”
Steve Ditlea, who wrote the 1981 Inc report about Apple Computers banishing typewriters from its offices, published a piece in the same publication the following year about the birth of the software...
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“They’re Based On His Belief That Technology Progresses Exponentially”
A passage from Carole Cadwalladr’s new Guardian profile of futurist and Google employee Ray Kurzweil, who is often, though not always, right when making his bold predictions about technology: “Bill...
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