You’ll watch “Gone With the Wind” with your own face and voice replacing that of Vivien Leigh or Clark Gable. Or see yourself walking down a runway at a fashion show wearing the latest Paris creations adjusted to fit your body or the one you wish you had.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “The Road Ahead,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates writes: ”Televised sporting events will offer you the opportunity to choose the camera angles, the replays, and even the commentators for your version. You’ll be able to listen to any song, anytime, anywhere piped in from the world’s largest record store: the information highway. Perhaps you’ll hum an little tune of your own invention into a microphone, and then play it back to hear what it could sound like if orchestrated or performed by a rock group. Or you’ll watch ‘Gone With the Wind’ with your own face and voice replacing that of Vivien Leigh or Clark Gable. Or see yourself walking down a runway at a fashion show wearing the latest Paris creations adjusted to fit your body or the one you wish you had.”
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: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
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:
Page 86
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne