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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,
ood doctor or read a good book? We can make all of these things work so well--its empowering stuff. Enough for now. I wrote a message titled "TV as the Opium of the People": Some people are afraid of interactive TV. TV is a drug, goes the argument, and the technology that Microsoft and others are supplying is going to
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,
ood doctor or read a good book? We can make all of these things work so well--its empowering stuff. Enough for now. I wrote a message titled "TV as the Opium of the People": Some people are afraid of interactive TV. TV is a drug, goes the argument, and the technology that Microsoft and others =are supplying is going t
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,
ood doctor or read a good book? We can make all of these things work so well--its empowering stuff. Enough for now. I wrote a message titled "TV as the Opium of the People": Some people are afraid of interactive TV. TV is a drug, goes the argument, and the technology that Microsoft and others =are supplying is going t
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