Bill Gates talk at CEO Summit 04
For all the nonsense that Microsoft produces, you have to admit that it has some amazing visionaries. It is instructive to see how the view is from the top of ...$49B cash. Gates classifies the 6.9B research effort into 4 categories:
Redefining entertainmentDigital Lifestyle
Redefining business productivity
Rewiring the economy
The first two "pillars" are more consumer oriented, and is something we can easily relate to. But there is one very crucial technology which has to improve drastically if those dreams are to be realised: search.


