Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

In case you haven't watched this, a short clip put together for Bill Gates, to illustrate his last day at Microsoft, with a nerdy humor. Quite brilliant as matter of fact. The cast is incredible: Matthew McConaughey, Brian Williams, Steve Palmer (well, that's a given), Jay-Z, Bono (from U2), Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Al Gore. Here's the video:

This video was screened during Gates' farewell speech at CES 2007. A crucial part of the talk:

Gates outlined three major themes for the second digital decade-high definition displays with 3D experiences and high quality video and audio, connected services and the power of natural interfaces. Gates had a vision early of those themes, but his quest to make the Tablet PC, Media Center PCs and natural interfaces, such as speech and touch, more mainstream has not been realized.