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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. Napster arrived in June, 1999. Who will sell the advertising space in our brains? What OS will they run?

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. Advertisers bid for our attention in online auction systems. But the items aren’t real (brands and IP) and don’t exist in the real world – they live in the ether to purely move money around. But when the web 2.0