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One-on-one With Bill Gates
From here.
JENNINGS: What is the next big thing?
GATES: Well, we can make computers far simpler than they are today even as we’re doing more and more with, you still have to learn to much about the innards. You know, security is a great example of that. Even communications, you have multiple e-mail accounts, and instant messaging and phone numbers, it should just be that you pick the person you want to contact and the right thing happens automatically. If you want to have a meeting, you ought to be able to have somebody at a distance be involved in that in a very simple way. So communication itself is still very, very inefficient. That’s one of the areas where we see breakthroughs, even in the next 3 years.
UK techies blow 17 days a year yakking to mates
He..he..he.. really sounds like me … (and perhaps even worse :-p). What about you?
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The productivity of UK businesses is being threatened by employees who waste time emailing their friends, new research claims. Forty per cent of UK workers spend an hour or more every day messaging friends and relatives and swapping jokes, according to a poll by Clearswift. UK IT departments proved the worst behaved, spending 17 days a year chatting with friends. Their non-technical colleagues dedicated 13 days to personal email.
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