Bill Gates, The next 20 years of the PC will be astounding
Today, the PC has gone mainstream. More than 500 million PCs are in use around the world, and another 140 million will be sold in 2001 far more than the number of TVs that will be purchased this year. Todays PCs are inexpensive, powerful, reliable and simple enough for almost anyone to use. Great productivity software has made the PC an indispensable tool for business, and its easier than ever to use a PC to manage finances, do the family shopping or keep track of the household schedule.
PCs have revolutionized the way we live, work, learn and play, and transformed how we communicate with each other. They have empowered people to be more creative and businesses more efficient, opened up amazing opportunities for education, and helped stimulate productivity worldwide. Combined with inexpensive, widespread Internet access, they’ve helped news and information travel faster and more freely than ever before, and broken down borders between nations, people and economies. So its no surprise that more than half of PC users now consider it the most important device in their home.
When I first started using personal computers, I was amazed and inspired by what they could do and by what they might be able to do in the future. But whats even more amazing is that, even now, we are a long way from exhausting the PCs potential. Today, Im as excited as I’ve ever been about the PC were at the start of a wave of digital innovation that will create plenty of new, exciting ways for computers to enrich our lives.
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