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Gates Proclaims Internet to Revolutionize TV in 5 Years

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-some-of-us-it-already-has dept.

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. "

3 of 314 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"640K ought to be enough for anybody." by despisethesun · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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    This poo is cold.
  2. Re:Spam by dvice_null · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  3. Re:The Museum of Bill Gates Proclamations by the_womble · · Score: 3, Informative
    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