Article: The road ahead.(book excerpt)(Cover Story)

In his long-awaited map to the information highway, the software king shares his revolutionary vision of how we'll work, play and communicate with the another

I wrote my first software program when I was thirteen years old. It was for playing tic-tac-toe. The computer I was using was huge and cumbersome and slow and absolutely compelling. Letting a bunch of teenagers like me and my friend Paul Allen loose on a computer was the idea of the Mothers' Club at Lakeside, the private school I attended. The mothers decided that the proceeds from a rummage sale should be used to install a terminal and buy computer time for students, a pretty amazing choice at the time in ...

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