Delivering goods ordered over the highway will become a big business. There will be an amazing competition, and as volume becomes enormous, delivery will get very inexpensive and fast.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In his 1995 book “The Road Ahead,” Microsoft CEO Bill Gates writes: ÒSoon there will be computerized shirt-making machines that will obey a different set of instructions for every shirt. When you order, youÕll indicate your measurements as well as your choices for fabric, fit, collar, and every other variable. The information will be communicated across the information highway to a manufacturing plant that will produce the garment for prompt delivery. Delivering goods ordered over the highway will become a big business. There will be an amazing competition, and as volume becomes enormous, delivery will get very inexpensive and fast.Ó
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: Economic structures
Subtopic: Shopping
Name of publication: The Road Ahead (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Chapter 8: Friction-Free Capitalism
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 166, 167
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