LinkedIn Answers | Bill Gates has a question for You on Information Technology
From time to time, LinkedIn Answers has featured some of the greatest minds on the planet (ranging from Jimmy Wales to Barack Obama) pose thought-provoking questions to the millions of professionals on LinkedIn, which in most cases yields an avalanche of well-thought out responses.
Today, we're glad to announce a question (that straddles education and technology) from one of the foremost and well recognized technologists of our generation and TIME Magazine's pick for one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century - Bill Gates, Chairman at Microsoft.
We will be updating this post with select answers as they come rolling in, so please stay tuned. And, don't forget to add your 2 cents to the conversation.
It's still the first half of the day and we've already received close to a 1000 answers. So here are some interesting answers from the initial stream of Answers.
Jeff Yablon (President & CEO, PC-VIP Inc.) kicked off the conversation with his take on encouraging the youth, from his perspective as a Dad.
While, Ed Dodds (Strategist and Systems Architect) suggests that learning from good corporate governance as well as open source community collaboration may be the place to start.
Nils Beers, inventor of a solar powered speedboat, laments the lack of innovative spirit in today's youth.
And for a global perspective, here's an answer from Sanjay Gupta an Mobile Solutions Entrepreneur from India.
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Did you know: Bill Gates was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 people who most influenced the 20th century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006! (Source: Wikipedia)
Koka Feb 28, 2008
This is amazing. The developers should really be proud of themselves! Thank you for making LinkedIn so much better.
Eddy Jones Mar 7, 2008
A. Get them out of public schools, or radically change the public system into something that might actually work.
B. Tell them the truth, so you garner some measure of their respect. They will NOT listen to you if they don't respect you.
C. Try to remember who you listened to, and why, at that age. Stretch yourself a little. Then emulate that person.
Try to put this in perspective. Youth today, as always, are among our bravest souls. They face the Great Unknown, with far too little real knowledge, and far too much bravado, and stroll into that unknown with a grin. Advise subtly. Youth have a built in mechanism to reject pointed advice. It derives from the need to become an adult and to break the chains of parental guidance. It bears great resemblance to leading a mule to drink. You do better pulling in the opposite direction.
Mario Sundar Mar 14, 2008
@koka Thanks!
@eddyjones Thanks for the comment, but the best way to respond would have been to go directly to Bill Gates' question on LinkedIn Answers.