The Final CES Keynote From Bill Gates

Sunday evening saw the final CES keynote delivered by Bill Gates in his current role with the Microsoft corporation. Speculation about big announcements generally seemed to be for naught, as his last address at the show focused more on broad concepts than blockbuster news. "Gates outlined three major themes for the second digital decade-high definition displays with 3D experiences and high quality video and audio, connected services and the power of natural interfaces. Gates had a vision early of those themes, but his quest to make the Tablet PC, Media Center PCs and natural interfaces, such as speech and touch, more mainstream has not been realized." A full description of the talk, including his Guitar Hero finale with Slash, is available in Engadget's liveblog of the event.

Holodecks!

[AndGodSed]

The way games are getting better visual wise, and tech is getting more powerful, I have a feeling we might see at least an early version of a Holodeck in our lifetimes.

Now I ALSO hope that by that time Linux will be the OS of choice for the manufacturer, I simply will not survive a BSOD in glorious Holodeck VR...

Re:Second edition out soon

[deniable]

I worked with a guy who had that book. Is it the one with a CD that wouldn't work in Windows NT?

Video of fun part

[raffe]

clip of bill gs last day at the office [youtube.com]

Bye-bye Billy...

[ceeam]

... your predictions always sucked and they do now. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. Oh, and thanks for nothing!

Re:Changes nothing

[Anonymous Coward]

People say the same thing about GPL.

The Road Ahead

[LKM]

Awesome book. My mom got it for me because it's a computer book, after all, and she knew I somewhat disliked Gates. I love the part where he invents the Mac. Great stuff.