Here's how Bill Gates described the internet to David Letterman in 1995. (via CNBCMakeIt)
"What the hell is [the internet] exactly?" Letterman asks Gates.
"A place where people can publish information. They can have their own homepage, companies are there, the latest information," Gates says."I heard you could watch a live baseball game on the internet and I was like, does radio ring a bell?" Letterman says. Gates said unlike with radio, the internet would allow users to watch a baseball game whenever they wanted instead of live.19
to start Microsoft in 1975, also told Letterman "you can find other people who have the same usual interests as you do," by searching the web. In addition to working to make computers a useful tool for connecting and for education, Gates predicted the advent of artificial intelligence; he told Letterman there might be a way to make computers think on their own."That turns out to be a very tough problem," Gates says. "In fact, there has been almost no progress made on it, so no one knows what that will happen. Some people think it will never happen.
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