Most viewers can understand video-on-demand and will welcome the freedom it provides. It has the potential to be what in computer parlance is called the “killer application” for the highway.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “The Road Ahead,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates writes:”Most viewers can understand video-on-demand and will welcome the freedom it provides. It has the potential to be what in computer parlance is called the ‘killer application’ for the highway. A killer application (or just ‘killer app’) is a use of technology so attractive to consumers that it fuels market forces and makes an invention all but indispensable, even if it wasn’t anticipated by the inventor É Killer applications help technological advances change from curiosities into moneymaking essentials.”
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, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: TV/Films/Video
Name of publication: The Road Ahead (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 4: Applications and Appliances
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 68, 69
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