The world without Bill Gates

Bill Gates is a very important person in the world, and everything would be different if he had never been born. He created the co-founded Microsoft and helped popularize the personal computer, so if he had never been born, we would not known the about portable technology. It´s difficult to imagine the world without personal computers because the computers they are very common for us nowadays. Most of the people and companies, especially in rich countries like the United States, use software from Microsoft. For example, we use our computers to administrate our lives, to study, to work, to communicate with people in any place everywhere in the world, etc. Without the computers like we know, probably we probably would be less developed than we are now, and the communication would be more difficult; therefore, we might not have developed things like (<--Avoid using the word "thing" when writing. It's vague and childish.) other technologies, researches (<--"Research" is both singular and plural.) about different areas fields of knowledge like medicine, transportation, energy, etc. However, we can also think in a different way: if Bill Gates had never been born, we would have another person who could have created a better software, and we would have gained more knowledge and technology by nowadays.

Nicely written, Fernanda. Please be aware of two common mistakes in this notebook entry:

1) English's complex punctuation rules (they were different from Portuguese). For instance, we cannot separate two clauses that can stand alone as sentences with just a comma. We must either add a conjunction or use a semicolon.

2) The excessive usage of the definite article. Unlike Portuguese, English doesn't require the definite article "the" to be used so frequently.

I hope my corrections help. Please let me know if you have any questions.