Technology Leads to Prosperity
Published in Ohmynews Intl.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates opened his speech to a crowd of 3,000 people in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Friday by exploring the rapid changes of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Gates cited the global growth in the number of personal computers (PCs) available, up from 241 million in 1996 to 1.1 billion in 2008, in the number of broadband bandwidth subscribers, up from 0.1 million in 1996 to 264 million in 2006, and in the percentage of cellular subscribers, up from only 1 percent in 1994 to 41 percent in 2006.
He also mentioned how the capacity and the capability of PCs have doubled every two years over the last decade. He underlined that these advances in ICT would not slow down.
Gates then illustrated his speech with slides, showing how the next wave of business productivity would involve unified communication, social computing, enterprise search and business intelligence. He also congratulated President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for improving ICT infrastructure in Indonesia but reminded the country of the need for improving skills and continuing to prepare the national plan for economic development.
As for Microsoft advances, Gates told the crowd that his giant company was now preparing natural user interface software that could make four systems available through speech recognition, pen, vision or watching, and gestures. In addition, Gates assured the audience that in the next decades TV development would be Internet driven.
Before closing his speech, Gates showed the crowd of how his company has been trying to make a combined satellite-telescope system with specially designed software to explore the universe. Gates ended his presentation by giving an example of how an elementary student can explore the stars and use the software to learn more planet Earth.
President Yudhoyono introduction addressed them basic questions to Gates: 1) How will the world change? 2) How do we employ technical stuffs to resolve the issues of our time, such as poverty and global warming? And 3) how do we fit humanity issues into today's rapid changes.
The lecture also provided a half hour question and answer session. Six participants, including businesspeople, journalists, regular citizens and university students addressed questions to Gates and Yudhoyono.
When a student asked about the recipe for progress in a giant software business, gates just remind the audience not to quit school as he had done. He underlined that students should finish their studies first in order to have a broader vision for their future.
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Pak Eddy yth,
Terimakasih atas laporan Pidato Bill Gates di acara "Presdential Lecture Featuring Bill Gates".
Silahkan ditambahkan pandangan Bill Gates tentang Open Source atas pertanyaan pak Rene Patirajawane.
Kritk Bill Gates ini akan kita pakai sebagai cambuk dan strategi dalam pemanfaatan Open Source di Indonesia, dengan membuktikan hal yang sebaliknya.
Semoga bermanfaat bagi kemajuan bangsa dan negara Indonesia yang kita cintai bersama.
Wassalam,
S Roestam
Dear pak Mitro,
Sayang sekali, saya menunggu anda untuk bertanya tapi kok tidak dipanggil ya?
Hm..saya agak "absent minded" pas Bill menjawab pertanyaan Rene karena teman sebelah ngobrol. Tapi sayup-sayup saya tangkap bahwa Bill agak "nantang" agar Open Source lebih bisa maju dan memasuki kancah komersil untuk mempercepat pengembangan.
Namun saya gak terima nasehat Bill untuk mahasiswa kita penanya ttg resepnya Om Bil ini untuk sukses. Elegannya ia harus menjawab bahwa sebaiknya mahasiswa itu "quit" saja dari sekolah, persis sebagaimana yang ia lakukan dan masuk ke "garage" untuk mengembangkan diri. Namun mungkin jawaban itu ia berikan karena perbedaan atmosfir R/D di US dengan kita di Indonesia. Ya..anyway...we took lesson kan pak Mitro. Have a good one, pak. Oh ya...lucu juga tuh kayaknya SBY dan pembantunya bingung harus berpakaian jas atau batik bagi sang Presiden. Gitu aja gak beres yah, yang pasti acara jadi molor 35 menitan.
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