Bill Gates

La historia de los comienzos de uno de los líderes empresariales y filántropos más transformadores e influyentes del mundo moderno. Los éxitos empresariales de Bill Gates son de sobra conocidos: el estudiante de veinte años que dejo sus estudios en Harvard para fundar una compañia de software que crecio hasta ser un gigante de la industria y cambio para siempre la forma de trabajar y de vivir; el multimillonario que se convirtio en filantropo para abordar el cambio climatico, la salud mundial y la educacion en Estados Unidos. Codigo fuente no es un libro sobre la epoca dorada de Microsoft ni sobre la creacion de la Gates Foundation, tampoco sobre el futuro de la tecnologia. Es la historia humana, personal, de como Bill Gates se convirtio en quien es hoy, de su infancia y de sus tempranos intereses y proyectos. Es tambien la historia de su abuela, una mujer de principios, y de sus ambiciosos padres; de sus primeras amistades verdaderas y de la muerte repentina de su mejor amigo; de sus problemas para integrarse y de su descubrimiento de la programacion y los ordenadores en los albores de una nueva era; de como siendo adolescente emprendio un camino que empezo con escapadas a medianoche a un centro de informatica cercano y culmino en la habitacion de su residencia universitaria, donde puso en marcha una revolucion que cambiaria el mundo. Por primera vez, es Bill Gates quien cuenta su historia. En ella hay sabiduria, calidez y momentos reveladores. Y tambien el relato de una vida fascinante.

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster.In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations.Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions-suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

La pandemia de la COVID-19 aún no ha terminado, pero mientras los gobiernos del mundo entero tratan de dejarla atrás, ya se plantean qué pasará a continuación. ¿Cómo podemos evitar que una próxima pandemia les arrebate la vida a millones de personas y hunda la economia global? ¿Podemos siquiera albergar la esperanza de alcanzar esta meta? Bill Gates cree que la respuesta es si, y en este libro explica de un modo claro y convincente que deberiamos haber aprendido de la COVID-19 y que podemos hacer cada uno de nosotros para evitar un desastre parecido. Basandose en los conocimientos de los principales expertos mundiales y en su propia experiencia combatiendo enfermedades mortales a traves de la Fundacion Gates, logra, en primer lugar, ayudarnos a entender, desde un punto de vista cientifico, como funcionan las enfermedades infecciosas. Despues, nos enseña que, si las naciones del mundo aunan esfuerzos y al mismo tiempo trabajan codo con codo con el sector privado, no solo podran prevenir otra catastrofe como la de la COVID, sino tambien eliminar todas las afecciones respiratorias, incluso la gripe. Este es un llamamiento intenso, exhaustivo y de suma importancia realizado por uno de nuestros mas grandes y mas eficaces pensadores y activistas.La critica ha dicho...En este libro, conciso a la par que coherente, Gates reflexiona sobre la COVID-19, considera futuras pandemias y propone recomendaciones sensatas para su prevencion. Apasionado por el tema pero sin sentar catedra, Gates hace un llamamiento razonado y consistente al mundo para que se una a fin de evitar proximas pandemias.BooklistGates aporta un analisis exhaustivo sobre como lo aprendido de la COVID-19 puede ayudar a desarrollar politicas globales de salud publica. Con una prosa accesible, detalla los pasos necesarios para evitar pandemias futuras, destacando la creacion de un equipo internacional dedicado a ello.Publishers Weekly

Information is the new business tool, and it can travel at the speed of thought. Bill Gates, in this fascinating book, explains business in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, started Microsoft in 1975 with a friend when he was only nineteen years old. Twenty years later he wrote this book about the future of computers and the Internet. Read the ideas and dreams of a man who has changed the world.

The COVID 19 pandemic isn t over but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us they re also starting to talk about what happens next How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy Can we even hope to accomplish this Bill Gates believes the answer is yes and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID 19 and what all of us can do to ward off another disaster like it Relying on the shared knowledge of the world s foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation he first makes us understand the science of corona diseases Then he helps us understand how the nations of the world working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector can not only ward off another COVID like catastrophe but also go far to eliminate all respiratory diseases including the flu Here is a clarion call strong comprehensive and of the gravest importance from one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists

The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gates believes the answer is yes, and in this book he lays out clearly and convincingly what the world should have learned from COVID-19 and what all of us can do to ward off another disaster like it. Relying on the shared knowledge of the world's foremost experts and on his own experience of combating fatal diseases through the Gates Foundation, he first makes us understand the science of corona diseases. Then he helps us understand how the nations of the world, working in conjunction with one another and with the private sector, can not only ward off another COVID-like catastrophe but also go far to eliminate all respiratory diseases, including the flu.Here is a clarion call - strong, comprehensive, and of the gravest importance - from one of our greatest and most effective thinkers and activists.

n this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe.Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal.He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions-suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise.As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical--and accessible--plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide toward certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions--suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

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Bill Gates is the founder of Microsoft. He thinks that businesses use computers in the same way we use our nervous system. In this book, he describes his idea of a 'Digital Nervous System' - a way for companies to get as much as possible from all the money they have spent on computers.

In this book Bill Gates--who built Microsoft into one of the most successful companies in the world--provides his vision of what the future holds. He shows how, just as the personal computer revolutionized the way we work, the emerging technologies of the digital age will transform forever the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with one another.