We have entered a “golden age of computing,” says Gates

We have entered a “golden age of computing,” says GatesBill Gates, the founder of software giant Microsoft, has said at the opening of the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit on Monday that we have entered a "golden age of computing."

He said that the connectivity, data and processing power have been increasing to levels that can help solve many of the world's major problems. Gates took questions from an audience of researchers regarding the works of his Gates Foundation and other developments in the computing world.

He explained, "It's been talked about for decades, and now really is possible, where we see where you're going, we see your calendar, we see your various communications. We can actually look at the text, look at the speech, try to be helpful to you in your activities. I think we will be more connected and therefore if somebody wants to do a task like find a gift of a certain type, organize a trip in a certain way, there will be a closer match that is, the gap between what the software can do for them and what most people end up doing, that could be reduced."

He said that the company came up with its Microsoft Bob-style but it was ahead of its time and the company made some mistakes. More such tools like Siri personal assistant for iOS by Apple has merged since then. Gates said that such a tool will remerge at Microsoft and it will be little more sophisticated this time.