karl
June 29th, 2012, 10:15 AM
Bill Gates changed our world, and the odds are that most readers have touched some kind of Windows machine today.
What is startling is the amount of foresight the Microsoft founder had, which is documented in his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, and - even further in past - a 1987 interview where Gates predicted LCD televisions, Siri-style voice recognition, YouTube, Wikipedia, and card-less payments.
One thing which may irk the founder is quite how much of these achievements have come from his fiercest competitors Apple and Google, with Microsoft being a relatively quiet company since the year 2000.
In 1987, the magazine OMNI featured predictions from some of the 'great minds', including Gates, who at the age of 32 was the world's youngest self-made billionaire, with Windows beginning to establish itself as the dominant workplace operating system.
The Smithsonian Magazine has compared Bill's predictions with the world in 2012.
Actually, Gates was specifically asked to predict the world 'in 20 years' time', or 2007, but perhaps only some of them have come true in the last few years.
In 1987, the Internet was just starting up, so it was perhaps it was quite an easy crystal ball to gaze into. But Bill's vision of the Internet, with touches of YouTube and Wikipedia, is still an apt description for today
See link below
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166055/Bill-Gates-spot-predictions-future-1987-thought-Microsoft-Google-Apple.html#ixzz1zCBhrejT
What is startling is the amount of foresight the Microsoft founder had, which is documented in his 1995 book, The Road Ahead, and - even further in past - a 1987 interview where Gates predicted LCD televisions, Siri-style voice recognition, YouTube, Wikipedia, and card-less payments.
One thing which may irk the founder is quite how much of these achievements have come from his fiercest competitors Apple and Google, with Microsoft being a relatively quiet company since the year 2000.
In 1987, the magazine OMNI featured predictions from some of the 'great minds', including Gates, who at the age of 32 was the world's youngest self-made billionaire, with Windows beginning to establish itself as the dominant workplace operating system.
The Smithsonian Magazine has compared Bill's predictions with the world in 2012.
Actually, Gates was specifically asked to predict the world 'in 20 years' time', or 2007, but perhaps only some of them have come true in the last few years.
In 1987, the Internet was just starting up, so it was perhaps it was quite an easy crystal ball to gaze into. But Bill's vision of the Internet, with touches of YouTube and Wikipedia, is still an apt description for today
See link below
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2166055/Bill-Gates-spot-predictions-future-1987-thought-Microsoft-Google-Apple.html#ixzz1zCBhrejT