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More Bill Gates on Vator.tv: "computing was once thought of as scary"

by Taylor Buley, February 20, 2008 | Comments

(Editor's note: this is the second part of our video story covering Bill Gates' Feb. 19 speech at Stanford University titled "On Software, Innovation, Entrpreneurship and Giving Back.") In this segment, Gates talks about the evolution in people's attitudes about "computing itself, which was thought of as a scary, threatening thing that governments and large corporations would use to track info about you. "It’s been a real change to say that computing was going to be about the individual, about ...

Vator.tv exclusive: Bill Gates on why market-based innovation doesn't always work

by Taylor Buley, February 20, 2008 | Comments

(Editor's note: the best part of this video, which was shot for Vator.tv by Taylor Buley, a graduate journalism student at Stanford University, begins at the 3:09 time mark. Many thanks to Buley, one of our first campus correspondents, for his submission.) Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates has been raising eyebrows lately by saying that a market-based system is not always the best way to distribute the benefits of technology as widely as possible.In this speech, given Feb. 19 ...

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