융합적 혁신가 빌 게이츠: 기술시스템의 관점에서

Abstract

This research examines the roles and characteristics of Bill Gates within the modern IT technological system using Thomas Hughes's point of view on technological system. For this purpose, the history of Bill Gates and Microsoft have been classified into three periods to analyze the characteristlcs of Bill Gatcs from the technological syscem point of view. Through this process, we can understand how Bill Gates has led the world of technological systems in the revolutionary IT era when numerous start-up comparues were collapsing, and we can summarize some characteristic roles that Bill Gates had played in that era. Bill Gates' life can be classified into three periods, Which are; the 1980's- when he could continue to grow relatively easily in the shadow of IBM after launching MS-DOS; the 1990's- when he had dominated the world of technologial systems after launching Windw: and the 2000 's-when he had transformed himself into a philanthropist as he had handed over his power after the lawsuit for breach of antitrust laws. Summing up the analysis results of each period, Bill Gates can be seen as a system builder who had worked over the course of growth, competition and consolidation of technological systems. This implies that he was at the top of his game not when the IT technological system were in the early stage of development but when a huge-scale technological system was being developed after the development of the technical system had been completed to a certain degree. Gates started to build the technological system after the technical system of the PC-based IT technological system had been almost completed. Also, Bill Gates's success story clearly shows why it is so difficult to complete a technological system by one innovator who has an engineer identity. The ultimate technological systems have been completed by the people who had focused on the extension of technologies. When it comes to individual technologies, it may seem like there is not much that Bill Gates has accomplished. However, in fact, he had developed a technological system which was able to process details. Bills Gates's successful revolution can be explained as a typical example of the Joan of Arc Syndrome because of the features of a new technology. Gates was lucky enough to be in the leading position during a new era like other many innovators. Bill Gates himself has enormous significance to the history of modern IT technology and which of America. Looking over Bill Gates from the technological system point of view, he can provide a new vision for the modern technology.