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Bill Gates On the Past, Future, and Google

editingwhiz writes "eWEEK reports that Bill Gates told PBS talk show host Charlie Rose and a Stanford University audience at TechNet Wednesday that 'We're at the beginning of something important again' in the development of technology — just as in the 1980s with the advent of the PC. He also discussed the growing Microsoft-Google competition, world health issues, how to give lots of money away to the benefit of mankind, and whether he'll return to Harvard to finish his studies." From the article: "On whether there's another idea today that is as powerful as the idea of the personal computer in the 1970s: 'If I knew medicine like I do computers, I would like to be able to control the [human] immune system, to fight against the onset of disease on a world level ... but I think the idea of the PC still would have topped that.'"

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  1. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Bill is a cunt.

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post!

  3. I for one by heauxmeaux · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    applaud this man as an international hero and example to us all.

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