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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
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines more che
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
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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
or it. Because I.B.M. thought that the money was going to be in the hardware, in the =computers themselves, it allowed Gates to retain the rights to ms-dos. =During the nineteen-eighties, the PC was cloned by other American manufacturers and by the Japanese, who could make and sell the machines =more ch
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