From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 15 22:41:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA0937B404 for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:41:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0568.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.44.58] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 178E01-0003aH-00; Wed, 15 May 2002 22:40:25 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE3462B.22C9724A@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:39:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The road ahead? References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <15586.61471.456290.764885@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Meyer wrote: > If I knew what the next great computer revolution was going to be, I'd > be looking for investors, not reading freebsd-chat. I suspect the same > is true for most everyone here. I will say that it probably already > exists. The internet existed in the mid 70s, but didn't hit the > popular conscious until the mid 90s. Identifying it, that's the hard > part. We geeks aren't likely to do so, because we have such poor > perception of what jane sixpack really wants. Steve Jobs has a good track record of seeing 5 or 6 years into the future. Too bad the public won't tolerate more than 2 years, tops. Anything with a horizon over 2 years is really unlikely to be funded. Listen to the archived BASES lectures (Stanford V.C. lectures) for confirmation on this point. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message