Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years

adamlazz writes "With an explosion of online video content on sites like YouTube and Google Video, Bill Gates believes that the Internet will revoloutionize the television within the next 5 years. 'I'm stunned how people aren't seeing that with TV, in five years from now, people will laugh at what we've had,' Gates told business leaders and politicians at the World Economic Forum. "

Comments

Re:"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

[despisethesun]

Except there's no evidence that he ever said that.

Re:Spam

[dvice_null]

2004-01-26 he said that it would be solved in two years:
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.j html?articleID=17500979

Re:The Museum of Bill Gates Proclamations

[the_womble]

The Road Ahead is unreadably boring. I found it on a friend's bookshelf and a few minutes was enough to see that it was all old hat and obvious.

Other than that, the only Bill G prediction I can remember that the internet was a fad or words to that effect. I can not find a reference for it. What I did find while looking was this http://www.danielsen.com/jokes/BillGatesquotes.txt

Bill Gates on Monday's Daily Show

[limecat4eva]

Forgive me for piggybacking on the top comment, but speaking of Bill Gates and TV, Gates is scheduled to be the guest on tomorrow night's Daily Show. Don't forget to set your TiVos or whatnot.

Re:"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

[SoulRider]

Ok, I was around back then. I dont remember the particular event but it was some random press conference right after DOS was released. Some reporter asked Gates why the 640K memory limit and this was his answer. It wasnt any sort of prediction, it was just an offhand comment to a reporter, from what I assumed at the time was a CEO who didnt really know all of the technical details behind what he was talking about. And dont forget that in 1981 640K was a helluva lot of memory (Apple II's shipped with 24K and were upgradable to 128K).