Software is the glue that will hold the entire information highway together, and whenever there are huge software requirements, we like to make a contribution.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Red Herring magazine, Anthony B. Perkins interviews Microsoft CEO Bill Gates at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. Gates says: ”For some time now, we have had a group working on software for the TV/PC. We’re betting that there’s going to be quite a breadth of applications and that those applications are going to need a lot of depth, which means a lot of software. You’ll need a very rich software infrastructure to operate the switch, servers, and the box that’s going to sit on top of your TV and run the applications. Software is the glue that will hold the entire information highway together, and whenever there are huge software requirements, we like to make a contribution. So we’ll just have to see if we’re right.”
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/
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