Finding solutions for today and the future

by: Glenn Gibson

There’s a great quote attributed to Bill Gates circa 1999 floating around the internet: “If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has,” he allegedly said, “we would all be driving 25 dollar cars that get 1,000 miles per gallon.”

The story continues that GM apparently issued a caustic press release reply entitled: “If GM had developed technology like Microsoft,” and listed 13 scathing comparisons between cars and PCs. The list begins, “For no reason at all, your car would crash twice a day” and ends with the amusing observation, “you would press the start button to shut off the engine.”

Without getting into the middle of this alleged debate, there is no arguing that there has been tremendous innovation in both fields since 1999. In technology, we’ve seen touchscreens change the way we interact with devices, cloud computing revolutionize our ability to access information and recently, wearable tech. In the automotive industry we now have self-parking, fuel-efficient, internet-connected cars which can practically drive themselves, turning automobiles into veritable entertainment centers.

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