In this case Bill Gates is describing some cases where it was young people who were the pioneers, and they were the ones coming up with important discoveries or inventions. He mentions Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and also ( more recent ) Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. He explains this occurrence with this paragraph...
"Why do young people play such an important role in innovation, even though older people have greater breadth of knowledge and a deeper understanding of their field? My theory is that young people aren't as constrained by traditional ways of thinking. They haven't yet completely absorbed the "right" way to do things, so they are free to pursue ideas that seem impossible to those of us with more experience."
Another article that I found interesting was this one. I have always had a dream of a world where services would be free, but ad driven. Cinemas can be free, and you pay for the pop corn... Even computers themselves can be free one day. It is nice to finally read an article which discusses such a concept. It even mentions Radiohead's new approach to selling music. Their new album is freely downloadable. However if you want the actual CD, you have to pay for it. Also, once fans that like the music attend the concerts, then they are making a profit anyway. Email services are free, searching on the Internet is free, and even air travel can be free. Radio is free... so why cannot all TV be free? What about music?
"The huge psychological gap between "almost zero" and "zero" is why micropayments failed. It's why Google doesn't show up on your credit card. It's why modern Web companies don't charge their users anything. And it's why Yahoo gives away disk drive space. The question of infinite storage was not if but when. The winners made their stuff free first."
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