The Road Ahead (Gates book)

The Road Ahead
AuthorBill Gates, with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson
Cover artistLaurie Rippon (jacket design); Annie Leibovitz (photograph)
LanguageEnglish
SubjectInformation technology, information superhighway, computer networks, telecommunications[1]
GenreNonfiction
PublisherViking Penguin
Publication date
  • November 24, 1995[2]
  • October 1996 ("Completely revised and up-to-date.")
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardback with companion CD-ROM
Pages286
ISBN978-0-670-77289-6
OCLC33281938
Followed byBusiness @ the Speed of Thought 
Websitehttps://archive.org/details/roadahead00gate/mode/2up

The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft; Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft executive; and former Microsoft vice president Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.

Gates received a $2.5-million advance for his book and money from subsidiary rights sales;[2] all his proceeds were donated to "encourage the use of technology in education administered through the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education,"[3] a foundation created by the National Education Association.[4]

  1. ^ Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data
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  4. ^ "National Foundation for the Improvement of Education (NFIE)". 1997-12-16. Archived from the original on 2003-06-13. Retrieved 2014-09-15.