Software Notebook: How does Gates shape up as a seer? Bill Gates has recently been prognosticating all over the place, offering his thoughts on the future of newspapers, television, advertising, communications, telephones and many other areas of business and technology.
But how good are his predictions, really? As luck would have it, there are plenty of media clippings, memos, books and official transcripts for comparing the Microsoft Corp. chairman's past comments with the harsh reality of 2007. And the result is a mixed bag. In some of his previous forecasts, Gates was right on the mark, and in others, well, he wasn't even close.
Here's a sampling: Avogadro. The Periodic Table of Videos - University of Nottingham.