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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
ld Bill Gates care about those guys? 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 flowe
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
the giant, all-knowing brain, and that this is what =the information highway means to him. It's a place where curiosity is rewarded. Not long ago, Paul Saffo, of the Institute for the Future, said to me, "Bill Gates is an introvert. He is not the kind of =person you want building the social network of the
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
the giant, all-knowing brain, and that this is what =the information highway means to him. It's a place where curiosity is rewarded. Not long ago, Paul Saffo, of the Institute for the Future, said to me, "Bill Gates is an introvert. He is not the kind of =person you want building the social network of the
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