Meeting Bill Gates

What do 3000 IT professionals do together in one hall in Singapore on a Friday afternoon? Our host claimed it was the biggest professional IT crowd ever on the Singapore scale. Well... listening to Bill Gates, who gave an unexciting outlook of things announced over and over again.
So our lifestyles will be digital, our gadgets converge, computer recognize context, understand our voice commands and Microsoft's 6 billion R&D spending will make all this possible. I think it's increasingly difficult to come up with something visionary that has not been spoken about before.
Implementing visions seems is so much harder than having them....