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October 27, 2010

Business Tech

The Wizard Inside the Machine

An early attempt to explain the world-changing power of computer software—and the minds of young programmers like Bill Gates—to a mass audience. “Software,” the article begins, “is the magic carpet to the future.”

Michael Moritz, Peter Stoler Time Apr 1984 Permalink