Bill Gates on the Digital Decade
On a visit to Thailand, Microsoft Chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates spoke about the coming "Digital Decade", sharing his views on key technology developments. Gates told an audience of 2,000 at the Royal Thai Navy Convention Hall that all of our future activities would be based on digital technology.
"I think of the next 10 years as being critical years. I refer to them as the digital decade. This is the period of time where all of our activities will be totally based around digital approaches. And we can see this in our whole life," he said.
Bill Gates said that developing countries should prepare for, and embrace a digital future. Topics included:
- digital entertainment
- workplace, home, schools and universities become digitized
- how we view television will change
- changes for businesses would be even more dramatic
- jobs - work will find the people
- Mobile phones, too, would become more powerful, serving as an e-wallet
- Speech recognition
- extensible mark-up language (XML)
"we will see more changes, more advances in the next 10 years than in all of the last 30," Gates promised.
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