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

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

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?

-C

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:51 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> 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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