The reason the Internet will be as important as the IBM PC is because there are literally thousands of companies – Microsoft and others – that are focusing on the Net as their primary strategy across their entire product lines.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Red Herring magazine, Alex S. Vieux interviews Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Madrid, Spain, at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. Gates says: ”Success is assured, in part, because the Internet has become the first global venue for publishing information. Anyone can be a publisher. The network has enough users now that it is benefiting from the positive feedback loop: The more users it gets, the more content it gets; and the more content it gets, the more users it gets. We witnessed this same phenomenon with application availability. The more applications are out there, the more attractive the device becomes, and the better the software business becomes … The reason the Internet will be as important as the IBM PC is because there are literally thousands of companies – Microsoft and others – that are focusing on the Net as their primary strategy across their entire product lines.”
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: October 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Economic structures
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Once and Future Kings
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue2.5/once.html
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