[governance] IBM Predicts the End of the Digital Divide in 5 Years

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

That was 5 computers -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers

It's like Gates saying "640K Ram should be enough for everyone"

But yes why do they make such silly statements? And they're the ones in the
forefront of computing (facepalm)

-C

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:

>   I wouldn’t put a great deal of weight on IBM predictions. Some of their
> best past predictions include that the world would only ever need 13
> computers, and that USA  users would never use mobile phones for texting,
> information services etc because this was a peculiar Japanese fetish that
> would never take off in the west.
>
> I think the prediction of the end of the digital divide ranks with these
> other two examples.
>
> Ian Peter
>
>  *From:* Fahd A. Batayneh <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:47 PM
> *To:* IG Caucus <governance at lists.igcaucus.org>
> *Subject:* [governance] IBM Predicts the End of the Digital Divide in 5
> Years
>
>
> http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/17/tech/mobile/ibm-digital-divide-gahran/index.html
>
> Interesting...
>
> Fahd
>
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