At the end of October I stayed two weeks in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. I spent those 14 days living the simple life — I read, wrote, and hiked the nearby mountains with my camera. — The trip was inspired by Bill Gates. In 1995, he wrote a historic memo called The Internet Tidal Wave. It analyzed the future of the internet and predicted it would change the way we use computers. That tidal wave is now long gone and others have since swept over us…