Bill Gates Takes His Mask Off: 'The World Needs New 'One World' Religion to Accommodate AI'

Disswire.com ^ | 1 November 2024 | Bradley Greer

[grey_whiskers]

Who would Bill be?

He doesn’t fit either Frost or Wither.

Maybe Feverstone?

[SaveFerris]

I’ll have to try to find them again

Thanks

[jonrick46]

I first met young Bill Gates as a young year-old boy behind a immense stack of books at the University of Washington Library. A biography of Gates tells the same story:

Bill Gates’ dad reveals what his Microsoft billionaire son was like growing up.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the young Gates was an extreme bookworm:

“Just about every kind of book interested him — encyclopedias, science fiction, you name it. I was thrilled that my child was such an avid reader, but he read so much that Bill’s mother and I had to institute a rule: no books at the dinner table.”

When he met Paul Allen, he had a friend with more than a common interest in books. From a biography:

‘Paul, his mom, and younger sister Jody, would often spend hours in the family car devouring piles of books while waiting for his dad to finish with work at the University of Washington as associate director of libraries.”

“Paul’s young mind was inspired by what he read about space, science, and technology. He also regularly attended football games with his dad at Husky Stadium on Saturday afternoons. And it was the school’s computer lab where he and fellow high schooler, Bill Gates, notoriously honed their skills until wearing out their welcome and being asked to leave by the then director of lab. But the two were undaunted and, shortly thereafter, went on to start their first company (years before Microsoft), named Traf-o-Data, with a UW electrical engineering student.”

But seeing young Bill Gates behind that pile of books at the U of W library made me tell him, “I know for a fact, you are going to be very successful when you grow up.” He thanked me and I went my way after saying, “Good luck.”