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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. Nine years later, in February 2005, YouTube arrived.

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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. 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 It’s Urgent.