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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 286 pages
  • Publisher: Viking; First Edition edition (1995)
  • Language: German
  • ISBN-10: 0453009212
  • ISBN-13: 978-0453009218
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (136 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #785,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Man of Vision
By Reading Mom on December 8, 2013
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Love reading what Bill Gates saw ahead, many years ago. In 1980 he was predicting that we would someday be using computers the size of credit cards.
What a visionary he was - and is today! He is a man to be much admired.
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By S. Kelly on June 23, 2014
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Although my ESL students are enamored with Bill Gates, this book is outdated. Since technology has improved by leaps and bounds, this book is no longer relevant.
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fun book!
By Larry on April 19, 2014
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The book was fun. It made me feel like I was a part of the computer world. It's a good one.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Bill Gates does technology past, present and future
By OverTheMoon on January 9, 2008
Format: Paperback
Bill Gates is a first class teacher. That is one of the most striking things you learn about him after reading what he writes. So to his talents of being a first class businessman, a first class programmer, first class mathematician and first class tech leader, you can add not a bad book author, given that this is his first incursion into the field of literature.

The big question however is why you would want to read a book that is dated 1996 about technology? The answer is four-fold. First of all, it's Bill Gates and how he thinks. Second, this book has an odd sort of history to it. Third, only some things in this book are coming to pass and much of it remains open or in development. Forth, you can still learn heaps from it although this stuff that has to come to pass doesn't have the same impact it did when he predicted it. However there is a little bit of controversy over how much he did predict and this is explained in the preface.

Preface
After launching the book in 1995, Bill Gates quickly revised it for a 1996 edition that focused on the Internet. It was only after releasing the 1995 book that Gates watched as the Internet unexpectedly achieved a mass sufficient to turn heads in the industry. Gates responded by making Microsoft Internet orientated and revising his book, The Road Ahead. So this book is a combination of how Gates predicts the future and how he suddenly reacted when the future came in unpredictably ahead of schedule.

1 - A Revolution Begins
Bill Gates discusses his history as a child growing up with computers. He describes what he was doing with very simple machines the size of a refrigerator and how he and Paul Allen in their teens developed software for businesses. He talks a lot about microprocessors and Intel.Read more ›
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Road Ahead Remain Relevant In 2014
By Desertman84 on July 11, 2014
Format: Hardcover
I got a copy of The Road Ahead in 1996 and read it back then.From what I remember,the things that Bill Gates wrote back then remains relevant in 2014.He stated many things about the information highway and how the internet is going to change the lives of people around the world. Coming from someone who built Microsoft,one of the most successful companies in the world,it gives us his vision of the new millennium back then.So far,he is not far from being accurate.He stated on how we are on the brink of a new revolution, and crossing a technology threshold that will forever change the way we live and communicate with one another.Overall,this book is still a joy to read as Gates' vision is on the verge of coming true.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Five Stars
By Kent L. Jones on July 7, 2014
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Great reading.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
from an educator
By A. Krupa on March 25, 2013
Format: Paperback
I thought it was going to just be about Bill Gates and his life at Microsoft, but it was so much more.
First of all, I would consider part of the book to be a primer on the history of computing going back to Gutenberg, Babbage, Pascal and others of historical influence.
I credit Bill Gates with the amazing feat of explaining the binary numbering system so simply and so effectively that I learned it for the first time ever by reading pages 27 and 28. Mr. Gates used an analogy to switches turning light bulbs on and off.
The Road Ahead is not stuffy , and neither is Bill Gates. His fresh point of view, boundless optimism and great curiosity and intelligence make him fascinating to me. I thoroughly enjoyed his book.
After giving the reader a solid foundation in where we came from, where we've been, and where we are now, Bill takes us to the near future, and shares his insight into the way things are likely to work for us. Mr. Gates used several examples of how technological advances of the past were feared or resented, and pointed out that the grim forbodings of earlier times did not pan out.
His chapter on lessons from the computing industry makes it easy to see how Bill ended up where he is today, and how some of the big giants like IBM really shot themselves in the foot by being greedy or not being forward-thinkers.
I think the most important chapter for us as educators is chapter 9, "Education - the best investment.". This quote from Reed Hundt, Chairman of the FCC, says it all:
"There are thousand of buildings in this country with millions of people in them who have no telephones, no cable television and no reasonable prospect of broadband services. They are called schools."
Schools should be ahead of the wave, not just paddling to tread water.Read more ›
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Remarkably accurate predictions of our near technological future, but the downside is underestimated
By Rasih Bensan on March 28, 2009
Format: Paperback
I have been listening to Bill Gates' audiobook titled The Road Ahead regularly for the past 15 years since it was published. I have been amazed to see his predictions actualize so accurately and gradually over the past fifteen years although some of them have yet to be actualized. In the book / audio book the author explains how he got involved in information technology from the time he was a college student, what the developments were in the field until then. He proceeds to describe what the further developments likely to happen were in the 15 years ahead around the world in many different aspects of information technology and how our lives would change as a result. As I write these lines on March 27th 2009 I am amazed to see how accurate his predictions were.

However, are we better off as various societies around the world as a result of these revolutionary advances in information technology particularly in communications technology ? I would be the last person to suggest that we go back to an age without personal computers, internet and cell phones. However, it upsets me to see that like many other technological advancements the unfavorable effects have been too many. In his book Bill Gates talks about for example the dangers of internet to children but that they can be controlled by parental controls provided by software to prevent children from accessing harmful websites. He also comments that he disagrees people will become individuals spending too much time online with much less social interaction. However, careful observation during the past 15 years reveals that this is exactly what has happened ; parental control software have not been sufficient in preventing especially adolescents from accessing harmful websites, too many people surf the net for too long unproductively.Read more ›
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