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Not in Library. The road ahead , Penguin. The road ahead , Wheeler Pub. The road ahead , Viking. The road ahead , penguin. Places United States. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Foreword 1. A revolution begins 1 2. The beginning of the information age 20 3. Lessons from the computer industry 35 4. Applications and appliances 65 5. Paths to the highway 89 6. The content revolution 7. Implications for business 8. Friction-free capitalism 9.

Eduction: The best investment Plugged in at home Race for the gold Critical issues Afterword Index. Edition Notes Includes index. System requirements for accompanying computer disc: Microsoft Windows. Colin Powell also released at the time. The Road Ahead occupied the top spot on The New York Times' bestseller list for over seven weeks in late and early , and sold 2.

A reviewer at The Seattle Times and coauthor of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America , a biography of Gates , called Gates' coverage of the Internet 'weakest of all' the topics Gates covered, saying the 'World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a functional appendage of the Internet rather than its driving force , and both come off as a subset of the Information Highway, a term Gates uses with abandon.

The New York Times review called the book 'bland and tepid' and reading 'as if it had been vetted by a committee of Microsoft executives'; it is 'little more than a positioning document, sold in book form with accompanying CD-ROM and designed mainly to advance the interests of the Microsoft Corporation. Gates's extensive effort to force his way back into the game before it's too late. Time magazine, in a December article about Gates in general rather than his book, said: [9].

Gates is as fearful as he is feared, and these days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. She sees an opportunity when she meets a snobby businesswoman with a broken leg, a platinum credit card, and a desire to get home.

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These early roads developed into the engineering marvels of today's modern highway system.