In a decade electronic publications will be worth $1 billion a year in sales. Most of this will be distributed on various forms of compact disk read-only memory – CD-ROM, CD-I and so forth – and will be entertainment, education and home reference.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1993 article on worldwide electronic communication, Mike Holderness paraphrases Bill Gates. Holderness writes:”Bill Gates, president of the Microsoft Corporation and thus theoretically America’s richest man, predicts that in a decade electronic publications will be worth $1 billion a year in sales. Most of this will be distributed on various forms of compact disk read-only memory – CD-ROM, CD-I and so forth – and will be entertainment, education and home reference.”
Biography:Bill Gates, the most influential technology entrepreneur of the late 20th century, was the primary author of the prediction-packed 1995 book “The Road Ahead” and is the founder and CEO of Microsoft Corporation. (Entrepreneur/Business Leader.)
Date of prediction: March 2, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Publishing
Name of publication: New Scientist
Title, headline, chapter name: Down and Out on the Electronic Frontier
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.poptel.org.uk/nuj/mike/articles/nsc-elec.htm
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