Clive Thompson Explains Why We Can Count on Geeks to Rescue the Earth
| August 31, 2007 |  View for printing |
Bill Gates is an improbable humanitarian. He built a reputation as a nightmare boss at Microsoft, a totalitarian who screeched at employees he thought were stupid. He bludgeoned competitors with his illegal monopoly. And he's a nerd's nerd — someone who seems perennially uncomfortable around people and only at ease dealing with the intricacies of software code.
And that is precisely why he's now saving the world.
By Clive Thompson
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