Business @ the Speed of Thought is a book written by Bill Gates in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digitalinfrastructures and information networks can help getting an edge on the competition. Gates asserts cyberspace and industry can no longer be separate entities, and that businesses must change to succeed in the Information Age. Image File history File links Business @ the Speed of thought- Bill Gates This image is a book cover. ... Look up book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ... Bill Gates William Henry Gates III, KBE (born October 28, 1955), commonly known as Bill Gates, is an American businessman and a microcomputer pioneer. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Business refers to at least three closely related commercial topics. ... Technology (Gr. ... A digital system is one that mayoperate on digital signals, i. ... Cyberspace is a (virtual) reality within the worlds computers and computer networks. ... Information Age is a term applied to the period where movement of information became faster than physical movement, more narrowly applied to the late 20th century and early 21st century post 1970. ...
If Gates' conception of digitalbusiness were simply a continuation, even an intensification, of the rhetoric of traditional capitalism that would doom his perspective, and his future business strategies, to the normal ebb and flow of the cycles of capitalism.
It is the virtual will, moving first at the speed of business and, only later, in its future appearance as unfettered technicity at the speed of light.
The business model can be hegemonic today as the spearhead of digital reality because in the particular expressions of acquisitive business interests are to be found, in however an imperfect form, the general manifestations of the digital will.
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