Friday, February 10, 2006
A Look Back on "The Road Ahead"
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "CONTENT" @ 06:00 AM
"When Bill Gates wrote his vision of the future back in 1995, titled 'The Road ahead', he made a number of outrageous (at the time) predictions about what the digital world would be like in 2006. How have his predictions held up? We take a look back at the book and see what Gates got right and what he got wrong. Turns out that Bill predicted DRM, pro-gaming, Media Center - although he also got a lot of other stuff wrong. Interestingly, a 300GB Maxtor hard drive would cost $63,000 today according to Gates' numbers!"
Some of the predictions were eerily dead on while the ones that are off are pretty funny too. It is just hard to believe how far some things have come in 10 years. The next 10 should be just as interesting.
Some of the predictions were eerily dead on while the ones that are off are pretty funny too. It is just hard to believe how far some things have come in 10 years. The next 10 should be just as interesting.
