Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Excerpts selected and emphasis in bold letters added by BillGatesWindows.com – We live in a media world simultaneously ... Read more »
On August 12, 1981, IBM announced its first PC. That makes today the thirtieth anniversary of the platform that’s sometimes been called the PC clone, IBM PC compatible, or Wintel…but is most often simply called the PC. 1. Is there any chance that PCs just wouldn’t have taken off if the IBM ... Read more »
Here is an article of Business Insider explaining 10 (among many more) ways Bill Gates helps people. They’re working on making a better banana The Gates foundation is funding research to add iron and Vitamin A to bananas. The modified bananas will be distributed in Uganda. James Dale, of ... Read more »
I was reading this interview of Bill Gates explaining what he understood after all those efforts for education, and I was surprised to see that he did not understand the most important, hoping that some magical dissertation, that so far mysteriously was not written by anyone in the world, will ... Read more »
Here is excerpts I select from Bill Gates’ interview at the Wall Street Journal concerning his educational efforts. On supporting schools with fewer students: “the overall impact of the intervention, particularly the measure we care most about—whether you go to college—it ... Read more »
Bill Gates keeps saying that such a great fortune as his most probably would exert a negative influence on his children, which is the reason why he decided to give only 10 millions to each of them. I think that Bill underestimates his judgement by this decision. Has he really sat down and ... Read more »
Here follows excerpts from the DailyMail interview (June 11, 2011): Gates is officially the second richest man in the world, only losing the No 1 spot to Mexican businessman Carlos Slim last year, after holding it for nearly two decades, on a technicality; he has given away $28 billion to ... Read more »
