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Bill Gates Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates · 1993

Quotes

“I don’t think AI’s impact will be as dramatic as the Industrial Revolution, but it certainly will be as big as the introduction of the PC.”

Bill Gates · The Risks of AI are Real but Manageable, 2023 · Primary source

Authors

American Entrepreneur and Philanthropist · 1955
Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft who helped shape personal computing and later became a major global philanthropist.

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Works

Bill Gates, David Allison (interviewer) · 1993
Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates

An oral history interview tracing Gates’s early computing experiences, Microsoft’s development, the personal computer industry and his expectations for computing’s future.

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Bill Gates, David Rensin (interviewer) · 1994
Playboy Interview: Bill Gates

A wide-ranging interview on Microsoft, software competition, emerging digital networks, management, personal wealth, and Gates’s expectations for the information age.

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Bill Gates · 1995
The Road Ahead

An examination of the emerging digital information age, predicting how personal computing and networks would transform communication, work, education, commerce, and society.

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Steve Jobs, Daniel Morrow (interviewer) · 1995
Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Steve Jobs

A 1995 oral history interview in which Steve Jobs discusses his upbringing, Apple, NeXT, education, computing and the internet.

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