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He of all people should know better. Unless he's talking in hundreds or thousands of years timescales perhaps?
by gtirloni 1y ago
He of all people should know better. Unless he's talking in hundreds or thousands of years timescales perhaps?
- rsynnott 1y agoGates-era Microsoft had a bit of a running problem with "[X] will change everything!" In particular see Windows for Pen Computing in the early 90s and their big voice interaction push in the late 90s/early noughties. I'd tend to discount Gates on this, because, like, it's not his first rodeo; he has predicted all ten of the last two tech revolutions.
- abraxas 1y agoAnd he famously nearly missed the internet. Microsoft famously came within inches of irrelevance when they ignored the internet for too long leading to his "tidal wave" memo. They got onboard but at the last minute.