WASHINGTON: A sizeable number of Americans believe that the next Bill Gates would come from India or China - as the two Asian giants are fast marching ahead on the global platform, a new US survey has revealed. "When asked where the 'next Bill Gates will come from,' 40 per cent of Americans predicted either India or China," said a national survey released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) on the sidelines of the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow at Las Vegas. The vast majority of them, about 96 per cent, believe that innovation was critical to the future success of the US as a world economic leader but they were concerned that the rising federal deficit would jeopardize prosperity of future generations, the survey said. The economic survey, conducted by Zogby International, found that 68 per cent of Americans think innovation was key to the future success of their place of employment, with 50 per cent maintaining that innovation was important for their job remaining in the US. After the World Economic Forum reported that the US has lost its global competitiveness ranking while India, China and Brazil have gained, 74 per cent of Americans said it was unlikely the US would regain its status next year. But 44 per cent pointed to innovation was the most important factor in seeking US competitiveness, it said. According to the survey, nearly 60 per cent Americans agreed that the rising national deficit would have a "major impact" on the prosperity of future generations. But when it comes to reducing the deficit, they were largely split on three issues: discontinuing corporate bailouts (23 per cent), reducing military spending (20 per cent), and relying on the free market to correct the imbalance (31 per cent). Nearly 60 per cent of the respondents said that they were concerned that current path being taken by Congress would be detrimental to medical innovation. Tensions seemed to run high: nearly half of them said they were "very concerned," the survey said. The Zogby survey was conducted between November 20 and 23, with a sample size of 3,779 US adults over the age of 18. Source & Link:
No one can be certain from what location the next Guru will come from but it would be odds on favourite that it would either be china or india just because of the massive population that these 2 continents.
Maybe from india but I dont think china will come with this. As some of you know how their government limit everything like they do lately with the .CN domains
Next Bill Gates are the owners of Google allredy 14 bilion each and growing ... it;s hard to beat that ...
well competition is tough, it can b even from a remote african nation, the only thing tht currently matters is, how is their working country helping their business ? china is gud in promotion of business compared to india who r still lagging behind with some of the business friendly policies, but I think India is better when it comes to the limited restrictive business the next richest need not be from an electronics field, he can b from some other field, only time will answer and may the best succeed
I wonder if they asked that "sizable number of Americans" if they see Bill Gates as someone favorable or not. I have no clue where the "next Bill Gates" will come from, but I'm really glad I'm not him.
Well I think both of the countries have excellent engineers and scientists and I think India could generate the next Bill Gates!
wooh.. Bill gates was the ultimate guy.. but his time is over. and we should not say like the next bill gates. am sure a new guy with totally different prospective will overcome everything.... see after 5 years from now..!!