Thinking Advance

Just reading an article on the newest "Time Magazine" issue (June 18, 2007), Bill Gates Goes Back To School. Bill Gates wrote the rules and system to transform people' thinking. He installed the engineer's approach - a literal, analytical, hacker's approach- to everything on the use of computer and the Web. On the other hand, Steve Jobs showed the use of technology differently, re-stalling the nature of human thinking.

In this article, as Lev Grossman stated,
"Bill Gates was at the center of the personal computer revolution and the Internet revolution, but now the big innovation are about exactly the things he's bad at. The iPod was an aesthetic revolution. MySpace was a social revolution. YouTube was an entertainment revolution. Technology doesn't need Gates anymore. Now education and health care - those are areas in which the bedrock problems, the bits and bytes, have yet to be solved. Sickness, death, ignorance, illiteracy --- those are the problems that need nerd, Gates 3.0. "

According to the article, Gates was never good at social skills. He foreseen there were forces reshaping the world weren't just political or cultural but technological if you knew there the bits and bytes were buried. An admirable and respectable action hero, for his courage and ambition to try to make a better world.