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| Gates Addresses 3,000 People in Jakarta |
| Technology leads to prosperity |
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Eddy Satriya (esatriya)  |
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Published 2008-05-10 05:27 (KST) |
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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).
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| 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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