The Road Ahead By Bill Gates
The Road Ahead
A Prophetic, Definitive Blueprint of the Information Superhighway and the Digital Age
A Prophetic, Definitive Blueprint of the Information Superhighway and the Digital Age
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Road Ahead
- Author: Bill Gates (with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson)
- Publisher: Viking (Penguin Group), New York / London
- Publication Date: 1995
- ISBN-10: 0670859133
- ISBN-13: 9780670859139
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Includes original interactive companion CD-ROM pocket at the rear block (where issued).
- Binding: Original publisher's premium hardcover binding, spine lettered in gilt, with illustrated dust jacket under an archival protective wrap.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 286 pages. Finished with a central insert of high-gloss color architectural mock-ups and technological schemas.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good Plus (VG+)
o Exterior / Boards: The hardcover cloth boards are exceptionally flat, square, and structurally pristine, presenting in mint physical condition. The corners remain perfectly sharp. The spine is completely straight, tight, unbroken, and undamaged.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately preserved. Pages are entirely clean and intact. Free of standard user highlighting, previous owner inscriptions, name stamps, or dog-ears. This book has clearly been well-maintained and looked after thus far.
o Aging Characteristics: Displays standard, completely natural uniform tanning/browning of the text pages, entirely typical for 1990s US/UK paper stock editions of this vintage.
o Special Protection: The book is safely preserved and protected within a fitted cellophane cover. -
The Dust Jacket: Very Good (VG)
o Description: Complete, bright, and unclipped. Displays only very limited, microscopic signs of edge-wear and light shelf friction, fully consistent with careful storage. Free of major chips, deep tears, or sun-faded spine bleaching.
Synopsis & Corporate Value
Published in November 1995, The Road Ahead is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ landmark, bestselling manifesto mapping out the impending global technological revolution. Written at the precise threshold of the consumer internet boom, Gates provides an authoritative, thought-provoking, and refreshingly optimistic travel guide for the "information highway." The narrative systematically demystifies emerging digital tech to explain how personal computing, high-speed networks, and data synchronicity would forever alter how society works, learns, shops, and communicates. Decades later, this scarce first-edition hardcover stands as a brilliant time capsule of modern tech heritage, preserving the definitive early visions that accurately predicted the infrastructure of our current interconnected world.
Published in November 1995, The Road Ahead is Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ landmark, bestselling manifesto mapping out the impending global technological revolution. Written at the precise threshold of the consumer internet boom, Gates provides an authoritative, thought-provoking, and refreshingly optimistic travel guide for the "information highway." The narrative systematically demystifies emerging digital tech to explain how personal computing, high-speed networks, and data synchronicity would forever alter how society works, learns, shops, and communicates. Decades later, this scarce first-edition hardcover stands as a brilliant time capsule of modern tech heritage, preserving the definitive early visions that accurately predicted the infrastructure of our current interconnected world.
Author Profile: Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born 1955) is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who fundamentally shaped the modern computing landscape. After dropping out of Harvard University, he co-founded Microsoft in 1975, transforming a small microcomputer software startup into a global technology empire and cementing himself for decades as the world's premier technological visionary. Beyond his corporate dominance in building the Windows operating system, Gates later transitioned into global humanitarian work via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His written works remain core historical foundations for tech enthusiasts, recording first-hand insights from the vanguard of the microcomputer and internet revolutions.
William Henry Gates III (born 1955) is an American business magnate, software pioneer, and philanthropist who fundamentally shaped the modern computing landscape. After dropping out of Harvard University, he co-founded Microsoft in 1975, transforming a small microcomputer software startup into a global technology empire and cementing himself for decades as the world's premier technological visionary. Beyond his corporate dominance in building the Windows operating system, Gates later transitioned into global humanitarian work via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His written works remain core historical foundations for tech enthusiasts, recording first-hand insights from the vanguard of the microcomputer and internet revolutions.
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