An “information highway” will enable parents to communicate electronically with teachers, pick a lawyer or doctor more judiciously, learn instantly about a medical prescription, find out about travel opportunities, find people with similar interests.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for The Boston Globe, Ronald Rosenberg interviews the chairman and co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates. Rosenberg writes:”Bill Gates sees the future in a television set, where an ‘information highway’ will enable parents to communicate electronically with teachers, pick a lawyer or doctor more judiciously, learn instantly about a medical prescription, find out about travel opportunities, find people with similar interests … Best known as America’s richest man, the still-boyish looking Gates will turn 38 years old next Thursday with a personal wealth estimated at $6 billion … Microsoft and his future, he says, are at the confluence of telephone, cable television and wireless communications.”
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, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Boston Globe
Title, headline, chapter name: Bill Gates, Evangelist: Q & A
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_docid=0EE14D11CA95C3B7&p_docnum=1&p_nbid=J61T52MMMTA1MzQ1NjE0MC42ODYwNTU6MTo2OjE1Mi4zMw
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