The Road Ahead (Gates book)
1995 book by Bill Gates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft; Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft executive; and former Microsoft vice president Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.
Author | Bill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson |
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Cover artist | Laurie Rippon (jacket design); Annie Leibovitz (photograph) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | Information technology, information superhighway, computer networks, telecommunications[1] |
Genre | Nonfiction |
Publisher | Viking Penguin |
Publication date | |
Media type | Hardback with companion CD-ROM |
Pages | 286 |
ISBN | 978-0-670-77289-6 |
OCLC | 33281938 |
Followed by | Business @ the Speed of Thought |
Website | https://archive.org/details/roadahead00gate/mode/2up |
Gates received a $2.5-million advance for his book and money from subsidiary rights sales;[2] all his proceeds were donated to "encourage the use of technology in education administered through the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education,"[4] a foundation created by the National Education Association.[5]