The Vision Behind: The Future By Bill Gates.

Predicting the future is no easy task. Why would a sane person attempt such a foolhardy task? Bill Gates did it 10 years ago with “The Road Ahead.”

How did he do? Can you say, “Popular Mechanics 1962?” Do you remember the family helicopter? How about nuclear power for the home?

Gates, silver spoon and all, prefaced his own book with plenty of the necessary qualifying statements to the folly of predictions.

Then he went and predicted the future anyway. Here we are 10.... (excerpted).

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