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3 :,„ 10:56:01 -0700 Message-Id: <9310081756.AA27745@ netmail.microsoft.com> X- Msmail-Message-Id: 15305A55 X-Msmail-Conversation-Id: 15305A55 From: Bill Gates To: [email protected] For years after the telephone was invented, in 1876, people thought it was a device that would transmit news, drama,
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our society
or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,
ys? I took this as a sign I was becoming a digital guy. Around the same time, I read an essay in Wired magazine by Paul =Saffo, who is a director of the Institute for the Future, a think tank =in Menlo Park, which argued that the information highway is going to cause a flowering of personal expression not seen in our societ
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