Posted on 05/06/2008 1:46:14 PM PDT by kingattax
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said there will be a vast shift in Internet technology over the next decade as he met Tuesday with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.
"We're approaching the second decade of (the) digital age," the software mogul and philanthropist told Lee at the start of their meeting at the presidential Blue House, according to a media pool report.
"The Internet has been operating now for 10 years," Gates said. "The second 10 years will be very different."
Microsoft Corp., the South Korean government and South Korean companies are investing $313 million in information technology for vehicles, games and education, according to a Blue House statement.
Microsoft and automakers Hyundai Motor Inc. and Kia Motors Corp. announced earlier Tuesday a deal to use Microsoft's in-car software, which allows people to control music and telephones with voice commands.
The company has a one-year exclusivity deal on the software with Ford Motor Co. in the U.S., but that expires in November. Fiat also has been selling cars with the software.
"We're doing some very interesting work on automobile software," Gates said after having dinner with Lee. "That's a really wide open area where some very exiting things will come out of."
Lee, a conservative former construction CEO, swept into office in February with a vow to boost economic growth through deregulation and increasing foreign investment.
In the Blue House statement, Gates was quoted as saying that new deals would boost South Korea's economic growth by as much as $6.9 billion over the next five years.
Gates, at a later event sponsored by South Korean television network SBS, talked about the future of software and human interaction in the next decade.
"We can expect that the variety and quality of software will accelerate in the years ahead," the Microsoft co-founder said.
Gates added that "natural interaction" between hardware and software was finally becoming possible, citing as an example speech commands to computers.
"The whole environment will be very, very different," he said.
Microsoft also said Tuesday that it will invest $280 million to build a research and development center in China's capital Beijing, and will double the number of its full-time research staff in China to 3,000 in three to five years
Nah...that’s what micro waves are for LOL
Why does anybody care what Gates thinks on this subject? He has never had a clear vision of technology. Cue back to the early-mid 90s when he thought closed online communities like AOL were the future and this “Internet” thing wasn’t going anywhere.
Now have Gates speak about the software business and I’ll be listening.
Remember “Imminent death of Internet predicted”?
He probably sees the Internet through a Microsoft lens -- dating its existence back to when Internet Explorer was achieving dominance in the browser market.
Especially after upgrading to 300 bps!
The former is somewhat understandable in a monolithic kernel architecture, the latter is inexcusable.
Translation: “I’ve found a way to make another sh_tpot of money off it”.
Free Republic was founded in 1996 and opened to the general public in February 1997.
I heard a tele-modem sound in some piece of equipment a while back and had flashbacks!
Yes sir! (And if any FReeper knows Arrogant)...
And Atari and Commodore and MIT and Berkeley Softworks, to name just a few more GUIs that predated Windows 3.0.
Sure he has. He was certain that no one would ever need to address more than 640K of memory.
He's always has a clear and incorrect vision. Indeed, there is quite a Vista from his office...
Voice commands?? That’s it? Mobile software with voice commands?
Computer, STFU!!!
(Sound of S&W round sliding into chamber)
(click)
BAM!!!
So Microsoft is Cyberdyne and they will soon build Skynet?
Well, hopefully that software controlling you car isn’t ‘trialware’. I was looking at a new car a couple of weeks ago, which had an XM satellite radio, and a free 3 month subscription. But what happens after that subscription runs out, and you decide not to continue? Do you just have no radio?
The world waits breathlessly, hanging on every prediction, from the world savant Gates, whose company had its most recent raging success with its fabulous and exiting new operating system, Vista.
Vister is blazing with kewl eye candy, but rumor has it that some consumers just haven’t yet realized how much they love it.
By the time we got on-line, Prodigy and Compuserve were taking over the world.
Point and click...
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