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I've never heard of him but I do know that there's been noone at any point in history who has been any good at predicting the future, even the very near future,
by dave2000 10y ago
I've never heard of him but I do know that there's been noone at any point in history who has been any good at predicting the future, even the very near future, so you can take anything he/anyone says with a large pinch of salt. Bill Gates wrote a book which barely mentioned the internet right as it was happening!
- pessimizer 10y agoBill Gates is another person with extremely limited technical achievements who happened to be in the right place at the right time, with the right connections.
- api 10y agoGates was a real programmer. He wrote a number of early BASIC interpreters for early PCs in assembler, which was not easy and not a thing many could do. His story has a good bit of luck as a factor but so does anyone's.
- vram22 10y agoSee book The New Magicians about early MS days. Le Nouveaux Magiciens in French original version, IIRC.
- jchonphoenix 10y agoGates proved new bounds for Pancake sorting as a freshman @ Harvard. He famously published with Papadimitrou. Gates is a better computer scientist than 90% of your rockstars at Google.
- xviia 10y agoStrange how someone can make the right decision in the right place at the right time over and over and over... Real lucky, I say!!
- rorykoehler 10y agoRay Kurzweil has done a fairly decent job of predicting the future and judging by some of the insights attributed to Tesla he also foresaw much of what we call life today.