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.'"

Comments

if only he cared about computer diseases...

[chroot_james]

then maybe windows wouldn't be the best way to transport disease from one machine to another!

Re:FP

[celardore]

A cunt you say? Whatever you say about him, he's donated more to charity than you and your children will ever earn combined! I think you're the cunt here.

In memory of...

[Ariastis]

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981 would become "One kidney should be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 2006 And of course, we'd all welcome ou monthly HealthCare Patch Tuesday :P

640 kb

[CSLarsen]

'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'

... around the time he professed that 640 kb should be enough for everyone. :-)