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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
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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
s," which will at first be animated characters that occasionally appear in the corner of =your TV screen and inform you, for example, that President Aristide is =on "Meet the Press," because they know you're interested in Haitian politics, but will eventually be out there on the information highway, =fil
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
s," which will at first be animated characters that occasionally appear in the corner of =your TV screen and inform you, for example, that President Aristide is =on "Meet the Press," because they know you're interested in Haitian politics, but will eventually be out there on the information highway, =fil
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