“Businesses and governments often overestimate the impact of new technologies in three years and radically underestimate their impact over ten.”
This was how Microsoft founder Bill Gates summed up the nature and pace of customer adoption of new transformational technologies in an interview with the author of this column – in 1995 at the birth of the internet era.
Mr Gates’ assessment was true of the mainframe-to-personal computer era, the networking and internet era, and the social/mobile and cloud computing era.
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