Excellent book. I'd love to see a follow up or a reprint with a couple pages of what the people have done since. (Or even a reprint + a new book with shorter interviews with the original folks and some new ones).

It's interesting to see some themes that seemed to be repeated:

* Small programming teams of highly intelligent people
* Be creative
* Iterative development

Lots of people talked about the future of the computer as one as informatoin rich. Only a few recognize the rise of the network. Bill Gate makes off handed mention about how much the network was useful to him for his communication level, but then almost exclusively focused on cd-rom technology as the "gateway" that would make computing common.

It was funny though to read someone who predicted the future of video games as highly networked games. I was reading this on the bus so notetaking was difficult, can't remember which interview.

I may have to re-read this. Tempted to hunt down a personal copy just to take some notes from at my leisure. ( )

http://blog.kaixo.de/articles/2006/07... (a german review of the german edition) ( )