Comments on: 1987 Predictions From Bill Gates: “Siri, Show Me Da Vinci Stuff”

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:18:41 +0000

What are examples of experts who, in the end, are really not experts?…

Most of them. Let’s safely say 90% of them. Robert Kiyosaki on everything. Purveyor of meaningless twaddle. Useful only for melting and making into candles. Alan Greenspan on the economy. Dr Phil McGraw on relationships. John Gray (‘Men are from Mars…

By: piratesmvp04

piratesmvp04 — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:45:52 +0000

This shows that Steve Jobs was wrong when he implied that Bill Gates was not a visionary.

By: paratrup2012

paratrup2012 — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:26:00 +0000

Now you know why he was the leader; a vision that could envisage what the world could be like in 20 years ahead of his time.

By: Lizard

Lizard — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:56:08 +0000

OK, it’s not DaVinci… but during our Pathfinder (D&D clone, for you non-tabletop types) games this Sunday, the DM was describing an obscure monster from older editions. As he did so, I flipped over to google on my iPad (I use it for my character sheet, and for web access to the rules, which are in an online database), typed in “Delver Dungeons Dragons”, clicked image, and found a buttload. It was thus possible to aid the DM’s description with a picture from the original sourcebook.

As I was born long before the PC era, and began with a 16K Atari 400 and moved through each generation of computers and online services, the fact I could be doing all this from a wireless tablet without even really thinking about it, just following a process as instinctive and ritualized as flipping a light switch or dialing (heh heh… “dialing”) a phone (both once miracles of their era), remains fascinating to me in a way it never will to people whose earliest memories are already firmly in the DSL or at worst 56.6K eras… (Someone 21 this year was born in 1991, meaning, they probably first worked with a computer in 1995, 1996, or so…)