"Innocence is the child, and forgetfulness, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a holy Yea." - The Three Metamorphosis, Thus Spake Zarathustra Written in 1995, "The Road Ahead" was by it's very name a prophecy. A practice in making inferences and expanding our imagination; while educating us about the apparent "magic" of computing and networks. Serving multiple functions this book is gripping from page one. Unlike most academics and futurism fanatics, Bill Gates was fully invested in the subjects he was talking about. And what comes out as the most basic of insights from this book is that we all are affected and must be deeply invested. This is a snowball that is still rolling. In Chapter 5 "Paths to the Highway", the Gates of 1995 imagines today's semantic systems and the underlying principles that would (and do) support them. He imagines machines talking to each other on "software pl...