Pre-reading Activities I hope my book will serve as something like a map or a travel guide for the trip that we are all about to take together on the information highway. That is why Ive chosen to call it The road Ahead. My goal in writing this book is to encourage the exchange of creative ideas about technology. The information revolution is already underway and it's up to all of us to make the most of it nimmons on people aloud the wonlunive anlu won
During my second year as a student at Harvard University, a friend and I saw a description of the first “PC” or personal computer in a magazine. As we read about it, we got very excited. We didn’t know exactly how the PC would be used, but we knew that it would be important. We were right. The PC revolution has changed the way millions and millions of people around the world live and work. Now we are all beginning another great journey. This journey is based on new ways of communicating and exchanging information. Some people call it the “information highway.” This new communications revolution will take place over many years and will require us to solve problems which are not yet seen. Many important decisions will have to be made, and our choices will affect the whole world. Decisions about planning the information highway should be made by all kinds of people. Not just technical people and computer experts, but everyday citizens and computer users themselves must also be involved. That way, the information highway will fulfill its great potential. I hope my book will serve as something like a map or a travel guide for the trip that we are all about to take together on the information highway. That is why I’ve chosen to call it The Road Ahead. My goal in writing this book is to encourage the exchange of creative ideas about technology. The information revolution is already underway and it’s up to all of us to make the most of it. Pre-reading Activities
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Intensive Study • Text-related Information • Intensive Study ➢ Difficult sentences ➢ Key words, phrases & usages ➢ Comprehension exercises
Text-related Information 合 Bill(William) Gates Bill (william) Gates, born in 1955, is an American computer entrepreneur who in 1975 co-founded Micro-Soft Later Microsoft) with Paul Allen,a private company for the manufacture and sale of computers. By the end of the 1980s Microsoft was a leading multi- national computer company and had made gates, its chairman and chief executive, the youngest multi-billionaire in the world
Text-related Information Bill (William) Gates Bill (William) Gates, born in 1955, is an American computer entrepreneur who in 1975 co-founded Micro-Soft (later Microsoft) with Paul Allen, a private company for the manufacture and sale of computers. By the end of the 1980s Microsoft was a leading multinational computer company and had made Gates, its chairman and chief executive, the youngest multi-billionaire in the world
Text-related Information 合 The road ahead《未来之路》 Authored by Bill Gates, The Road Ahead was first published by the penguin group(New York) in 1995.In the book, Bill Gates looks ahead to show how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives and gives us his vision of the undiscovered territory on the information highway
Authored by Bill Gates, The Road Ahead was first published by the Penguin Group (New York) in 1995. In the book, Bill Gates looks ahead to show how the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform all our lives and gives us his vision of the undiscovered territory on the information highway. The Road Ahead 《未来之路》 Text-related Information
Language Points 合 Foreword by Bill Gates 1 The past twenty years have been an incredible adventure for me. It started on a day when as a college sophomore, I stood in Harvard Square with my friend Paul Allen and pored over the description of a kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine. As we read excitedly about the first truly personal computer, Paul and I didn't know exactly how it would be used, but we were sure it would change us and the world of computing. We were right. The personal-computer revolution happened and it has affected millions of lives. It has led us to places we had barely imagined
Foreword by Bill Gates 1 The past twenty years have been an incredible adventure for me. It started on a day when, as a college sophomore, I stood in Harvard Square with my friend Paul Allen and pored over the description of a kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine. As we read excitedly about the first truly personal computer, Paul and I didn’t know exactly how it would be used, but we were sure it would change us and the world of computing. We were right. The personal-computer revolution happened and it has affected millions of lives. It has led us to places we had barely imagined. Language Points