The Road Ahead

Bill Gates-whose vision of the personal computer propelled Microsoft into one of the world's leading companies-astonished the business community in 1996 by abruptly reinventing his entire company around the Internet. In this fully revised and updated edition of his bestseller, *The Road Ahead*, Gates explains why the Internet has revolutionized not just Microsoft but everything else too-and at a faster pace than even he had anticipated. Gates describes the implications for everybody of a world connected by interactive computer networks, and addressed our most pressing questions. • How will our lives change? • What about our children? • How long will it take? • What are good opportunities? • Will our jobs become obsolete? • How should we prepare? • What about privacy? Clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring, Gates shows how the new tools of the Information Age are transforming forever the way we buy, work, learn, communicate, and have fun together. *The Road Ahead* is Gate's bird's-eye view of the undiscovered territory ahead-an authoritative and thought-provoking guide for the journey.