In The Road Ahead Bill Gates laid out his vision for the future and answered some important questions:
What is the information highway?
How will the new technology change our lives?
Do I have to learn to use a computer?
Will my job become obsolete?
Bill Gates said that we were on the brink of a new revolution, and crossing a technology threshold that would forever change the way we buy, work, learn, and communicate with each other.
The book made perfect sense and I knew right then what I wanted to do with my life. Five months after reading the book, in April of 1996, I formed The Technological Edge, Inc. with my future wife, Cara, who got certified in Web Design.
The name was chosen to remind us that for the rest of our lives the pace of change in technology will only quicken. Our focus from day one was to keep up with the current changes, because to give somebody the technological edge you have to stay on the technological edge.