Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online ...

despite unprecedented access to information, ignorance persists among the youth. The digital age was expected to guide in an era of enlightenment, with knowledge readily available at everyone's ...

The BBC's venerable science programme Horizon was investigating the new "Electronic Frontier", in an era where "information is starting to redefine our world, its geography and its economy".