At a Technology conference in Lake Tahoe, Bill Gates made a prediction that the best education will come from the web in 5 years. Nicholas Negroponte also said that the physical book will be obsolete in 5 years. He compared paper books transition to their digital counterparts to the music and film industry of a few decades ago.

I saw this in pdf version on antitrust.slated.org, and I felt compelled to share. Microsoft sees the growing possibilities for open web standards and interoperability, but they don’t agree with the need for change. Yet they push Silverlight? None of us should ever forget: No matter what their marketing arm spins for us, their main agenda will always be sabotage.