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Book Review of The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead
The Road Ahead
Author: Bill Gates
Genre: Computers & Technology
Book Type: Hardcover
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Obtaining this book through the kindness of Ms. Chitwood in Estill Springs, Tennessee, for the bookshelf at the old soldiers' home, I read part of it on the bus today.
In March 2017 I find it very easy and fast reading. It was published to introduce folks to the Information Age, but I read Chapter 12 "The Information Superhighway" and found Mr. Gates quite prescient.
However, he maintained that more jobs would become available as computing/Internet ended other jobs, and that will not be so. Especially interesting is his warning about the seductiveness of virtual reality!
Good index.