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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

By day he works on web and social media for HP. 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.

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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. Try going for a week without using a computer, smartphone, search engine, ecommerce, social media account, SMS, private message or email, to name a few services. But when the web 2.0 It’s nigh on impossible. Natural Monopolies.