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1、Bill Gates Speech to Tsinghua University(12 December, 1997)1 Its great to be here and have a chance to share some of my excitement with you.2 I got involved with computers at 18, and the computer was a very limited teletype that had to be connected through a phone line up to a mainframe-like compute
2、r but my friends and I became fascinated with understanding what the computer can do, what was the future, and how would it be used. When we found out about chip technology, and the miracle of being able to improve the power of the chip exponentially, we realized that computers had a very bright fut
3、ure. We spent a lot of our time writing software because we loved writing software, because we thought that the software being written by a lot of big hardware companies wasnt as good as what we could do.3 I was 19 when I realized that if I wanted to be the first to do a software company for these n
4、ew cheap computers, I needed to get my friends, together and start right away, so Microsoft became the first company doing software for these new machines. Our vision was a computer on every desk and in every home. In the last 20 years, that vision is certainly becoming a reality. If we had to chang
5、e it today, we would simply add that now we also want to have a computer in every pocket, every carmany other places that we had not thought about when we first started doing development. I believe software is the key element that really unlocks the power of all this technology, and the idea of maki
6、ng it easy to find information, easy to create information, easy to communicate with other people. Software is at the center of that, and so software will be the fastest growing industry in the world and, one that will create lots and lots of great jobs. Certainly here in China the opportunity for h
7、undreds of thousands of great jobs should be very exciting because there is a global shortage in terms of computer skills.4 The personal computer revolution got started in 1975, thats when I left college and started Microsoft. These last 22 years have really been amazing, every prediction weve made
8、about improvements have all come true. As we look ahead, that pace of innovation is not slowing down, in fact if anything its speeding up. Very high speed processors like 300 MHz Pentiums, or new 64-bit processors that we re already developing Windows NT for; incredible storage capacity, which will
9、let us store, not just data, but also digital video as well; great screen technology to create a tablet-like device that would be good enough for reading and writing; advanced graphics and now the ability to connect computers together at very high speed.5 The Internet is the way that all these machi
10、nes can be connected together. And those standards and the improvement of those standards, is very very important. Some people like to think about how the computer industry compares to other industries. Ive shown before what the cost of the typical car was in 1980 in US, and that rose up to be about
11、 from 8, 000 to 19, 000 today, and likewise cereal has increased in price. How does that compare to PCs? If the same model was followed for PCs, you can buy a car for 27 cents and cereal for less than one cent, so theres no other area of the economy that has this rapid improvement, and people just a
12、rent used to it. You almost have to tell people, “What would you do if Internet computing power was free, “ because thats what well be able to deliver with all these improvements.6 Microsofts vision of computing is global computing. We see PCs connected to the Internet making the world a smaller pla
13、ce, and thats positive in so many ways: to build understanding between people, to share research in key science areas, including medicine, to allow world commerce to work very well. And the Internet is driving this already. Microsoft has set up operations around the world, and we are very pleased wi
14、th the success were having here in China. We are doing significant software development on products here, and that will continue to increase, and key for us is having very very high quality software people, and weve been lucky to hire a great number of people from this university. Really Id say that
15、 the core of the teams weve put together have come from here, and Ive listed some of those employees here, and we certainly hope that in the future this list will increase dramatically, and the quality of our work continues to rise.7 Microsoft believes in doing a lot of research because the software
16、 of today is not adequate for tomorrow. Its come a long way, such as the graphics interface, the application, and the way we deal with linguistics; its much better than it was a year ago. Building the Internet into the software has come a long way. Some of the more ambitious things, like teaching the computer to speak or listen or see, still require a lot of software work. That s not yet done, and so weve been investing in research, and bu
