Mr Gates, at a forum in Hong Kong to mark the 10th anniversary of the software giant's Asian research arm, added that technology currently being developed would transform the way people use computers, expanding their ability to interact with the machines.

Increasing internet connection will greatly broaden services for users, allowing them remote access to a wide range of software and information, he said.

"People often talk about this as the internet service revolution," Mr Gates told a gathering of 1600 researchers and academics

"That will eventually lead to machines with lots of server capacity, low-cost computing, low-cost storage. And that will let us write software in an even more ambitious way, eliminating the last constraints we have."

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