Bill Gates last official Keynote address as chair of Microsoft. The Guy is a nerd. I understand that his vision of software has changed the world in a way that few people ever have, but he still can’t look cool. He has more money than anyone and yet he still manages to look like a geek. In one example he introduces a multi-touch interface and demonstrates how this could be used to customize a snowboard. Bill Gates knows nothing about snowboard culture. It was evident that he had been coached on what words to use. It was like listening to someone who has never used profanity swear to look cool. He just didn’t have what it takes to talk about or design a custom snowboard. This might not matter because he was in front of people just like him at the CES show in Vegas. At the beginning of the keynote Bill sets up a video clip about what his last day at the office might be like. The movie was actually about what Bill might do after he retires. The movie was kind of random and Bill looked foolish not funny. Bill made the mistake of telling too much about the joke before he told it, just like the clown fish makes in “Finding Nemo” with the joke about a sea cucumber. The technology at the conference was really interesting because it seemed to focus on how we will interact with computers in the future. I can’t wait to get rid of my mouse and just grab what I want off the screen, who know maybe I will design my own custom snowboard and send a picture of it to Bill, (If he is not to busy, Good Luck Bill with putting that money to good use.)
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Does it really matter that he looks like a geek to you when the geeks he is speaking to respond positively? If you could re-make his approach what would you do to make him more approachable to a larger audience. Perhaps geekness is a part of his schtick and in real life he is cooler than cool.
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