If you are using spatial navigation, the place you’re moving around in won’t have to be real. You’ll be able to set up imaginary places and return to them whenever you want … You will be able to play curator and gather images of your favorite artworks from around the world to “hang” in a gallery of your own … You will even be able to give friends tours, whether they are sitting next to you or watching from the other side of the world. “Here between the Raphael and the Modigliani,” you might say, “is a favorite finger painting I did when I was three years old.”
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “The Road Ahead,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates writes: ”If you are using spatial navigation, the place you’re moving around in won’t have to be real. You’ll be able to set up imaginary places and return to them whenever you want. In your own museum, you’ll be able to move walls, add imaginary galleries, and rearrange the art. You might want all still lifes to be displayed together, even if one is a fragment of a Pompeian fresco that hang ins in a gallery of ancient Roman art and one is a Cubist Picasso from a twentieth-century gallery. You will be able to play curator and gather images of your favorite artworks from around the world to ‘hang’ in a gallery of your own … You will even be able to give friends tours, whether they are sitting next to you or watching from the other side of the world. ‘Here between the Raphael and the Modigliani,’ you might say, ‘is a favorite finger painting I did when I was three years old.'”
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: Virtual Reality
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 83
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