by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson · Viking Pr · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670772896
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«The Road Ahead» is the technology essay by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson, published by Viking Pr in hardback (286 pages, in English).
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, presents his vision of how the digital revolution will transform society: the «information superhighway» will change the way people shop, work, learn and communicate. He reviews the evolution of computing, from the earliest calculating machines to the rise of the PC, and the economic and social impact of new technologies.
First edition, published in November 1995. The volume includes an index.
For readers interested in technology, computing and business, and in Bill Gates's vision of the digital future as the Internet was beginning to expand.
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's wealthiest person for 18 out of 24 years between 1995 and 2017, including 13 years consecutively from 1995 to 2007. Gates became the first centibillionaire in 1999, when his net worth briefly surpassed US$100 billion. According to Forbes, as of February 2026, his net worth stood at US$107.7 billion, making him the 18th-wealthiest individual in the world.
