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The Road Ahead

Bill Gates

  • 332 pages · about 6 hours
  • First published 1995
  • 21 editions
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1 About this book

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.

  • Information technology
  • Computers and civilization
  • Computers, social aspects
  • Computer networks
  • Computer industry
  • Telecommunication
  • Technological innovations
  • Industria de computadoras

2 About Bill Gates

Born 1955

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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