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How To Predict The Future

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By day he works on web and social media for HP. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000. I plotted the growth in capacity of magnetic platter hard drives and flash drives back in 2006 or so, and saw that flash would overtake magnetic media in 2016. Napster arrived in June, 1999.

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I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

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While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. So I spent some time on my run yesterday rolling the idea of a bubble around in my head.

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Back From Sabattical

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Since 2000, Amy and I have been taking a week of the grid every quarter. Amy and I just got back from a month off the grid in Aspen. If you are an Atlas Shrugged fan, think of it like the annual trip to Galt’s Gulch. I’m in great relationship shape, as I got to spent 24 hours a day for a month with my beloved.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

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Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

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Hollywood’s Massive Miss on Strong AI

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The MIT Media Lab was created at the same time – opening in 1985 – and there was a revolution at MIT around AI and computer science. So while I didn’t study at LCS or the Media Lab, I was deeply influenced by what was going on around me. When I think back to Philip K.

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The Future of Transportation

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I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. Some concerns in the media include: Legislation. There’s always been a sweet spot in my heart for flying cars. If costs come down, are there other barriers?