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Gates: Hardware, Not Software, Will Be Free

Posted by timothy on from the gas-and-chocolate-will-be-free-too dept.

orthogonal writes "That's small-'f', not capital-'F' free: according to Bill Gates, "Ten years out, in terms of actual hardware costs you can almost think of hardware as being free -- I'm not saying it will be absolutely free --...." Gates expects this almost free hardware to support two of the longest awaited breakthroughs in computing: real speech and handwriting recognition. He further predicts -- ugh! -- that software will not be written but visually designed."

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  1. Re:Visual design by 1781 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ah, yes. Jest about it, but the UML-people has been working on visual programming for years. Perhaps there is a mutual interest... UMSL?

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  2. Re:Another Quote by e6003 · · Score: 5, Informative

    To be fair, it seems the (in)famous Gates 640K quote is an urban legend.