Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: The Road Ahead (CD ROM included) by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter M. Rinearson ISBN: 0-14-026040-4 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.51 (117 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: How technology benefits our lives?
Comment: ¡§The Road Ahead¡¨ is written by Bill Gates in 1996. However, I am surprised that most of the content in the book can come true nowadays. For example, videoconferencing, e-mail, e-shopping, e-banking, etc. This book is interesting that we can understand more how computer developed and how it is applied widely in the world nowadays.
The content of this book is about how computer developed and what the trend of the information age is. I got the main point from the book is that ¡§How technology benefits our lives?¡¨ We can divide what Bill Gates has mentioned about the benefits of technology in our lives into four aspects: Individual, education, business, and society. Actually, the evolution of computer and the application of e-mail, ICQ, Intranet, etc affected our communication pattern today. Now, we can use the above methods to communicate with anyone all over the world that overcome our physical separation. Therefore, the world today become smaller and people become more aware of what happens outside the world. And this interactive network can be applied in the above four aspects (Individual, education, business, and society) that improve our standard of living.
For individual, the Internet is widely used that enhance socialization among people. On-line game, ICQ, and newsgroup, etc provides more kinds of entertainment for us that can help people to reduce pressure and train our intelligence.
For education, CD-ROM, World Wide Web, Intranet, e-mail, and educational software, etc can help people to manage information to support thinking and learning, and to assist many education works. For example, students can submit assignments and download academic notes through the campus Intranet and it enables students to keep in touch with other classmates and teachers.
For business, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Web page, videoconferencing, software for scheduling, etc can help to streamline the operation in business internally and externally. And new forms of business begin to emerge, which are e-shopping, e-banking and on-line advertising that help to save operation cost and provide new kinds of business for companies.
For society, Internet, e-mail, and ICQ, etc help to enhance information exchange and enhance culture exchange, and then enhance our standard of living since technology enables people to work efficiently so that it increases our leisure time with better lives.
This book helps me to understand more about how the evolution of technology can bring us so large and good impacts to our world. I am surprising that what Bill Gates said in 1996 can become reality in 2003. We can enjoy the benefits nowadays from the achievement of the people long times ago. Moreover, I learnt how to think and criticize an issue from different angles so that I can analyze an issue in a more objective ways. We can learn this thinking skill from Bill Gates since this book contains many critical thinking by Bill Gates and how he criticized an issue into different angles objectively. This skill is very important for me and it is very useful for my future career.
This book is a valuable book that recorded the evolution of computer and how technology benefits our world. Therefore, I believe that people can get many insights in education and business world from this book. I hope that all the readers can also enjoy reading this book and learning how to think and criticize an issue more objectively.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hard Drive of IT
Comment: I read the first edition of the book a few years ago. It was also translated into Russian in 1997. And now when I'm reading "Business @ Speed of Thought" I take a look into the second edition of "The Road Ahead" and read it again. Considering that this book was written in 1995-96, the predictions he made are quite remarkable in their prophecy. The founder of Microsoft presents his vision for the future in which he sees the digital technologies of the coming years changing the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate. And this man definitely knows the future.
"The Road Ahead" is very much primarily an easy-to-read IT textbook. This book tells you what lies ahead in the future for everyday living world of computers. Will everyone in the world have access to computers in our future? Will everyone gain access to the Internet? Will we be able to walk in a store and pick out whatever we want to, and walk out of the store without being a shoplifter? Read this amazing book and find out the answers to these questions and more.
It also includes CD-ROM containing the complete text of the book, a dictionary with multimedia hyperlinks and an interview with Bill Gates. It is still extraordinary. This CD-ROM illustrates the future of electronic publishing.
I interviewed Bill Gates in 1990 when he visited Moscow for the first time to introduce the very first Microsoft product in Russian language. It was MS-DOS 4.0. Then I wrote several books on MS-DOS and IT for beginners.
Bill Gates was worth "only" $2.5 billion in 1990. It is estimated that hundreds million people today have personal computers in their home. Over ninety-five percent of them are operating Windows Operating Systems. Today Microsoft really enjoys the self-made monopoly. Although many people don't like Bill Gates personally because he's so rich, I wish good luck to Microsoft Corp. and the Microsoft team. And at the same time I also wish good luck to all young entrepreneurs who will start their companies and deprive Microsoft of its reins eventually. This is the capitalism, ladies and gentlemen! This is a great system with opportunities for everyone with guts.
This is a must have book for anyone pursuing a career in computers, the computer hobbyist and the Mac users, too. Get this book today and have it in your library. I highly recommend it, especially to people new to computers and the digital revolution.
Rating: 4
Summary: Mein Kampf meets Microsoft
Comment: Take someone of absolute vision and let them write a book. You get either of the books in this reviews title.
The first book was about hate, intolerance and the systematic corrections required for the author to have a fully efficient society.
The second book is almost identical in it's outlook, apart from the hate and intolerance.
Gates can see a future where true equality exists, a future where common and tax dollars can be monitored from any place on the globe. Votes registered and incapable of being rigged. Crime is instantenously caught. No disability physical, mental, sociatal or otherwise holds you back.
Utopia.
The amazing thing about it is that we are already halfway into that utopia now, only 8 years on.
Mein Kampf was published in 1925, the war ended in 1945.
What will the world be like in 1915?
This book is worth reading -If only to show the underlying reason trapped inside everone. Once logic escapes, it becomes, it governs itself.
Gates is not the inverse of Hitler. But where Hitler was wrong in his beliefs, Gates is not.
He's not absolutley right either though!!!
A truly endearing book, fairly well written with a touch of who Bill G. is. Definetly worth a look!
BTW if you ever get the chance to read 'Bill Gates Super Secret Laptop' a Microspoof, DO!! just remember it was made in 98!!
-Scott
 |
Title: Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy by Bill Gates ISBN: 0446675962 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
 |
Title: Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System by Bill Gates ISBN: 0446525685 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 24 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
 |
Title: Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry by Michael Dell, Catherine Fredman ISBN: 0887309151 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
 |
Title: Hard Drive : Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace, Jim Erickson ISBN: 0887306292 Publisher: HarperBusiness Pub. Date: 26 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
 |
Title: Gates : How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews ISBN: 0671880748 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 21 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
