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He's more interested in being exciting and controversial than being accurate. However, it's not a bad broad-brush picture if you don't look to hard at the detai
by scholia 11y ago
He's more interested in being exciting and controversial than being accurate. However, it's not a bad broad-brush picture if you don't look to hard at the details.
The thing is, it really is hard to predict the future. For example, when the microprocessor appeared, we all said Wow, we can all have a PC! And the mainframe is dead.
I don't think anybody said we'd be papering the world with giant server farms based on microprocessors, or that most of the Fortune 500 would still be running on mainframes 40 years later.