Gilder’s fantasy of a Microsoft-free computer industry might come to pass if Bill Gates spent his time in his vault counting his money. He doesn’t. He obsessively watches the horizon for threats to his hegemony. When he spots a danger, he works feverishly to use his current monopolies to leverage his way into the new arena.
Predictor: Berst, Jesse
Prediction, in context:John Murphey included the following in his online column Tech Track, a compilation of technology-related items regularly summarized from magazine and newspaper articles. It is a direct quotation of Windows Watcher editor Jesse Berst’s Oct. 9, 1995, response in Forbes ASAP to an earlier Forbes ASAP column written by George Gilder that claimed, among other things, that Marc Andreessen, will be bigger than Bill Gates in the Internet World: ”Mr. Gilder’s article on the coming software shift is 10 percent fact and 90 percent wishful thinking … Gilder’s fantasy of a Microsoft-free computer industry might come to pass if Bill Gates spent his time in his vault counting his money. He doesn’t. He obsessively watches the horizon for threats to his hegemony. When he spots a danger, he works feverishly to use his current monopolies to leverage his way into the new arena.”
Biography:Jesse Berst was editor of Windows Watcher Newsletter. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Monroe Street Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: Tech Track
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.umich.edu/~msjrnl/backmsj/111395/techtrack.html
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