- Information superhighway, Computer networks, Information technology, Computer industry
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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Cool, earnest, classical in form and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 332
- Publisher
- Wheeler Pub., Pearson Education Limited, Penguin
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Spanish, French, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9782266075152
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American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen
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