Bill Gates, an autobiography. We have lived the last 50 years, from slightly different viewpoints. Are the lessons the same? Different?
https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-bill-gates-book-autobiography-source-code/
Bill Gates was only a few years ahead of me at Harvard, and he dropped out after his freshman year. And now he is a centibillionaire, retired CEO of Microsoft, and a global philanthropist.
Other than that, he’s just like me and a bunch of other college grads.
Now, he has written the first book of an anticipated trilogy autobiography, which should be a fun read and an origin story at the core of the personal computer revolution.
Happy to read from this article and from his book, about how he terrorized his parents and was a sarcastic wit in school. Having followed his career over the decades, can’t wait to see behind the curtain.
I think all CMIO’s at their root owe some debt of gratitude to his pioneering tech, his career sparring with Steve Jobs at Apple, and the sparks from their works that ignited countless industries, including medical informatics.
I, for one, programmed in MSBasic on an Apple II, bought the first (and almost every subsequent) Mac, used Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, then Office, searched on Altavista, Yahoo!, used a modem to dial in to bulletin boards, surfed the world wide web in text until the first images arrived, all that.
How might we keep alive the knowledge of where we came from?
Yes, we must look to an AI-enabled, then AI-powered, and perhaps an AI-supervised future, but what lessons must we learn again if we forget?
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