The way you browse local information and the way you browse remote information will be a seamless experience.
Predictor: Gates, Bill
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article for Red Herring magazine, Alex S. Vieux interviews Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Madrid, Spain, at the European Technology Roundtable Exposition. Gates says: ”If you looked around Microsoft and asked, ‘What’s the theme that’s driving innovation here?’ you would discover it is the Internet far more than anything else. That means making Windows the best client software for the Net – having all the browsing capability not only built-in, but integrated with the shell experience. The way you browse local information and the way you browse remote information will be a seamless experience. Another example is the Word group, which has been charged with making Word an excellent way to author and read online content. We realize that the future of the company rests in part on how well we can adapt to a competitive environment changed by the Internet.”
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, 1995
Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure
Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software
Name of publication: Red Herring
Title, headline, chapter name: The Once and Future Kings
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.redherring.com/mag/issue2.5/once.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney