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Submitted to Digg by dreams800 8/15/2008

Recounting a short history of software development, Gates said innovations in natural interaction technology are making technology more pervasive. “When interaction gets more natural, computers can be everywhere to listen to you,” he said, adding that “society will have to have more explicit rules” governing privacy boundaries around software as technology develops.

What he’s really saying is that as computers get more embedded into the Internet and software is advancing more quickly than hardware, we are faced with the problem of diminishing security and increased threats. The bad guys are getting smarter than the good guys. There’s more at stake.

“Software innovation will be pervasive; it will happen to other things in our lives, like our cars and our TVs,” he said.

It’s scary.

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The software field is wrought with challenges. Gates believes privacy is at the top of the list.

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