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...Cargo Cults flourished on New Guinea and Melanesia: people who had never seen an airplane pondered incoming U.S. aircraft and assumed they must be divine. Technology is confusing, and these were reasonable guesses under the circumstances. In 1995 Gates published a book (co-authored with Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson) called The Road Ahead. Peering far into the future, he glimpsed a technology-rich dreamworld where you will be able to "watch Gone With the Wind," he wrote, "with your own face and voice replacing Vivien Leigh's or Clark Gable's." Apparently this is just what the public...
...changing collection of electronic art, a trampoline room with a 25-ft. vaulted ceiling where he can burn off steam, a 20-car underground garage and a trout stream. The Road Ahead, a book on which Gates is collaborating with Nathan Myhrvold, a Microsoft group V.P., and journalist Peter Rinearson (publication date: Oct. 16), received a $2.5 million advance from Penguin, a record for a book by a few computer geeks...
...medical treatment of severely handicapped children, most notably in the much litigated case of Baby Jane Doe; in editorial writing, to Editor Albert Scardino, 35, of the weekly Georgia Gazette (circ. 2,500), largely for attacks on official wrongdoing; in feature writing, to Seattle Times Reporter Peter Mark Rinearson, 29, for describing the development of the Boeing 757 passenger jet; in feature photography, to Anthony Suau, 27, of the Denver Post, primarily for pictures of mass starvation in Ethiopia...
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