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A little confirmation bias on this one. In addition to the infamous internet will collapse prediction he was also pretty whole hog on the Segway scooter revolut
by riceart 4y ago
A little confirmation bias on this one. In addition to the infamous internet will collapse prediction he was also pretty whole hog on the Segway scooter revolutionizing transit.
- jacquesm 4y agoSo let me enlighten you a bit: we did collapse the internet, and got a testy email from a bunch of backbone maintainers that they were going to block our live video streams (on port 2047) in four weeks time or so. Which resulted in us moving to the other side of the Atlantic to relieve the transatlantic cable. So even if it didn't make the news Metcalfe was 100% on the money on that particular prediction. The Segway never had a chance as far as I'm concerned but the other thing he got just so. But maybe he never knew (and I never knew about his bet).
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- riceart 4y agoHe made a very specific prediction - it didn’t pan out - that there have been near misses and even global degradation events multiple times in the past 3 decades is not relevant. He admitted he was wrong and literally ate his words.