Right now, the file, mail, and directory system is very limited … We need to redesign the basic storage functions of an operating system, ratcheting up its response until it is a highly disciplined object storer.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Red Herring magazine, Anthony B. Perkins reports on what Microsoft CEO Bill Gates says at a Q-A session with other technology executives at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. A portion of one Gates answer: ”Right now, the file, mail, and directory system is very limited. It can’t track information as it moves around or query information from an expert position. We need to redesign the basic storage functions of an operating system, ratcheting up its response until it is a highly disciplined object storer. That’s in the next stage of what we’re doing with Windows – a very ambitious project that we call ‘Cairo.'”
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: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: Bill Gates: An American Gladiator in the Digital Arena
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue05/
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney