There is a significant advance coming in the next year, when 28.8 modems will include a built-in feature that will allow simultaneous voice-data capability.
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: ”Currently, the PC is being hooked up over a narrowband telephone structure, which does have a lot of shortcomings, but these problems will certainly be overcome. There is a significant advance coming in the next year, when 28.8 modems will include a built-in feature that will allow simultaneous voice-data capability. So for any scenario you can think of – talking to your lawyer or travel agent, collaborating with a business partner, whatever – you will soon be able to get the best of both worlds, that is, the human touch of a phone conversation and the ability to share a screen with them as well. I think this mutual collaboration capability is really underestimated in our business.”
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: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
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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