Someday you’ll be backing an 18-year-old who’s writing software that will change the world.
Predictor: Joy, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Newsweek, David Kaplan and Adam Rogers included a quote from Bill Joy in a special section titled “The Year of the Internet”: ”[Mosaic/Netscape inventor Marc] Andreessen envisioned a … populist universe, where any cyberschlub could plug into the Net, especially its World Wide Web of shared information. Andreessen, then 21, had programming in his genes … He can assimilate vast amounts of information from both the technical and the pop-culture bandwidths, which makes it easier to understand how he could see the marriage of the Internet to mass society. Three Christmases ago at Aspen, Colo., Bill Joy, cofounder of Sun Microsystems, was riffing about the future with his friend John Doerr, the legendary venture capitalist. ‘Someday,’ he prophesied, ‘you’ll be backing an 18-year-old who’s writing software that will change the world.’ Joy was off by five years.”
Biography:Bill Joy served as chief of technical strategy at Sun Microsystems, a position he held in the 1990s, from the founding of days of the company in 1982. (Technology Developer/Administrator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1992
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Newsweek
Title, headline, chapter name: Nothing But Net
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
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