<div>So considering the remarkable inverse accuracy of these statements they should have announced "Digital divide will be around for ever, we guarantee at least 5 years" - and then in 4 years we'd be clean?</div>
<div> </div><div>-C<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:51 PM, David Conrad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" target="_blank">drc@virtualized.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <<a href="mailto:chaitanyabd@gmail.com">chaitanyabd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That was 5 computers - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers</a><br>
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</div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote</a><br>
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However, that article you referenced suggests 5 is 4 too many.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> It's like Gates saying "640K Ram should be enough for everyone"<br>
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</div><a href="http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484</a> (note: potentially offensive language unrelated to the Gates quote towards the end of that article)<br>
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Bill Gates did however say (in 1989) that Microsoft would never make a 32-bit operating system and that spam would be "a thing of the past in two years time" in 2004.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> But yes why do they make such silly statements? And they're the ones in the forefront of computing (facepalm)<br>
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</div>Making predictions about the future is known to be a bit challenging, e.g., <a href="http://listverse.com/2007/10/28/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/" target="_blank">http://listverse.com/2007/10/28/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/</a><br>
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Regards,<br>
-drc<br>
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