Epstein Secrets

390 It is often said by Gates' detractors that he has never invented anything, and this is true in a sense, but you could say the same thing about Henry Ford. When the Model T appeared, in 1908, it was by no means the best car on the mad, but it worked well enough, and it was affordable and easy to produ

ital 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 since the sixties, and that

ht. It is often said by Gates' detractors that he has never invented anything, and this is true in a sense, but you could say =the same thing about Henry Ford. When the Model T appeared, in 1908, it =was by no means the best car on the road, but it worked well enough, and it was affordable and easy to prod

al 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 since =the sixties, and that

ht. It is often said by Gates' detractors that he has never invented anything, and this is true in a sense, but you could say =the same thing about Henry Ford. When the Model T appeared, in 1908, it =was by no means the best car on the road, but it worked well enough, and it was affordable and easy to prod

al 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 since =the sixties, and that

his phenomenon in the 1890s: “Diminishing Returns”. As any line of business gets more competitive, the profits - or “returns” to investment - shrink. Henry Ford invents a car, he has no competition at first and fairly prints money. But Ford doesn’t enjoy his monopoly for long. Pretty soon the Dodge brothers f

e work is done in rooms within rooms within rooms. To drive along the dulled, anodyne asphalt stretch of road that runs in front of Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park almost hurts your head: Inside the offices on revolutions are dreamed, debated and funded. And it looks, for the most part, like a row of mildly pros