Where will next Bill Gates come from? Survey says: not the United States
A new poll of Americans' attitudes about the Internet says the next tech titan, ala the Microsoft co-founder, is more likely to come from China or Japan than the United States. And a full one-quarter of Americans says they'd rather watch a citizen video account of a news event than a network news version.
Zogby International conducted the nationwide poll of 1,200 people for communications firm 463 Communications. Tom Galvin, a 463 executive, says the next Bill Gates has already been born, but Americans don't think he's walking among them.
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