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The Tricky Business of Predicting the Future

Posted July 19, 2007 4:34 PM

From Extremetech:

Few industries move as fast as the computer market. There's that old story about Bill Gates saying, "If GM made car improvements at the same pace the computer industry does, we would all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 miles to the gallon." To which GM reportedly replied, "And they'd crash twice a day." Whether this exchange ever happened or not, it's certainly true that few areas in life grow and change as rapidly as the computer biz. It's doubly apparent when you look at all the other things in our lives that are actually computers, even if we don't think of them that way. (Your new HDTV is a computer, so is your cell phone, and your iPod, and so on.)

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Re: The Tricky Business of Predicting the Future

07/20/2007 3:17 AM

There are 2 types of predictions - lucky and wrong.

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