Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:39:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1021937567.3082d8@mired.org> Cc: Nils Holland <nils@daemon.tisys.org>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The road ahead? Message-ID: <3CE3462B.22C9724A@mindspring.com> References: <20020516004909.A9808@daemon.tisys.org> <15586.61471.456290.764885@guru.mired.org>
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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
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