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Tue 26 Feb, 2013 01:58 am
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The Road Ahead, published in 1995 and brought out in a new edition in 1996, touches on aspects of life close to everyone. Bill Gates, famous across
the world for his successful business, Microsoft, gives readers a fascinating insight into how personal computers are in the future going to change our lives still further and how the Internet will continue to evolve. Optimistic and
enthusiastic, Bill Gates takes the reader into a world of the near future. This is a world where less paper is used, where teachers share their work and reach more students, where businesses hold meetings across the world without
anyone leaving their offices, and where someone’s house can recognize them and choose their favorite music as they enter.
I'd say it means that the house will have something like today's facial recognition software, which can recognize an individual person who comes in as a member of the family, and will have a playlist of that particular person's favorite music. It does not discuss what happens when the house contains several different people at the same time with radically different musical tastes, who can't stand each other's favorite songs, and the resulting system crash.
@MontereyJack,
Anyhow, I don't particularly want even my own music popping up when I walk in the door. Sounds like some kind of motion picture. You know, I'm walking down the street, and you start hearing Roger's Theme in the background. On the other hand, I'm one of the four members known to be lacking a television.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:. . .where someone’s house can recognize them. . .
"Recognize them" refers to the "someone" who lives in the "house."
It could be one or more persons.
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