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

[David Conrad]

On Oct 23, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Chaitanya Dhareshwar <chaitanyabd at gmail.com> wrote:
> That was 5 computers - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/21/computing.supercomputers 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote

However, that article you referenced suggests 5 is 4 too many.

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

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484 (note: potentially offensive language unrelated to the Gates quote towards the end of that article)

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.

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

Making predictions about the future is known to be a bit challenging, e.g., http://listverse.com/2007/10/28/top-30-failed-technology-predictions/

Regards,
-drc


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