How ‘intelligent agents’ and mind-mappers are taking our information democracy to the next stage.
Bill Gates on the Future of Information Democracy - Issues 2006 - MSNBC.com
By Bill Gates
Newsweek
Updated: 10:59 a.m. ET Jan. 25, 2006Issues 2006 - It’s hard to say exactly when it happened, but at some point in the last 20 years the word “knowledge” became an adjective. As intellectual property became increasingly important to businesses, and personal computers started appearing on every desktop, employees morphed into knowledge workers, companies began to focus on knowledge management and key information was stored in knowledge bases connected—in theory—via knowledge networks. The result was the knowledge economy, a phenomenon that has transformed the business of business and helped entire emerging economies to compete globally.
