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On Predicting the Future 13 Surprising Predictions by Steve Jobs
Posted by Ant on April 14th, 2009
[Via Direct Quote from macyourself.com]
1. He knew there would be a second coming
“I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.” — Playboy, 1985
2. He knew DRM was doomed from the start
“We don’t believe it’s possible to protect digital content… What’s new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet — and no one’s gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock — open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock… You’ll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.” — Rolling Stone, 2003
3. He knew the rise of generic PCs would stifle advancement
“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years. Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they always stop innovation — they prevent innovation from happening.” — Playboy, 1985
4. He knew he could bring Apple back from the (almost) dead
“You know, I’ve got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can’t say any more than that it’s the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me.” — Fortune, 1995
5. He knew the internet would change our lives forever
“The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people—as remarkable as the telephone.” — Playboy, 1985
6. He knew the iTunes business model would crush the competition
“We said: These [music subscription] services that are out there now are going to fail. Music Net’s gonna fail, Press Play’s gonna fail. Here’s why: People don’t want to buy their music as a subscription. They bought 45′s; then they bought LP’s; then they bought cassettes; then they bought 8-tracks; then they bought CD’s. They’re going to want to buy downloads. People want to own their music. You don’t want to rent your music — and then, one day, if you stop paying, all your music goes away.” — Rolling Stone, 2003
7. He knew the record labels would stupidly demand higher pricing
“Customers think the price is really good where it is. We’re trying to compete with piracy — we’re trying to pull people away from piracy and say, ‘You can buy these songs legally for a fair price.’ But if the price goes up a lot, they’ll go back to piracy. Then, everybody loses.” — 2005
8. He knew Disney would have to join forces with Pixar to stay relevant
“I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney — not replace Disney — but be the next Disney.” — BusinessWeek, 1998
9. He knew the iTunes Store would change everything
“It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can’t overestimate it!” — Fortune, 2003
10. He knew Apple’s portables would lead the industry
“[Portable computers] are OK if you’re a reporter and trying to take notes on the run. But for the average person, they’re really not that useful, and there’s not all that software for them, either. By the time you get your software done, a new one comes out with a slightly bigger display and your software is obsolete. So nobody is writing any software for them. Wait till we do it—the power of a Macintosh in something the size of a book!” — Playboy, 1985
11. He knew the iPhone would come (22 years before it did)
“The developments will be in making the products more and more portable, networking them, getting out laser printers, getting out shared data bases, getting out more communications ability, maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer.” — Playboy, 1985
12. He knew the graphic user interface would be the basis of all computers
“I was so blinded by the first thing they showed me, which was the graphical user interface. I thought it was the best thing I’d ever seen in my life… And within 10 minutes it was obvious to me that all computers would work like this.” — PBS, 1996
13. He knew how to handle tough economic times (and still does)
“We’ve had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place — the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time.” — Fortune, 2008
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FUTUROLOGISTS
FIRST POSTED ON DECEMBER 2009
List of futurologists
| Name | Birth | Death | Field | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alvin Toffler | 1928 | living | technological singularity | alvin + heidi toffler {futurists} |
| Archibald Low | 1888 | 1956 | space | |
| Arthur C. Clarke | 1917 | 2008 | writer | The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation |
| Arthur Harkins | living | innovation studies | Arthur Harkins | |
| Bertrand de Jouvenel | 1903 | 1987 | economist | Nature 0f Future |
| < Bill Joy | 1954 | living | technology dangers | |
| Buckminster Fuller | 1895 | 1983 | architect, cosmologist | Who is Buckminster Fuller? |
| Clem Bezold | living | healthcare | Institute for Alternative Futures | |
| Danila Medvedev | 1980 | living | transhumanist | Danila Medvedev |
| Gerald Celente | living | Trend Research | Gerald Celente’s Trends Research Institute | |
| Dandridge M. Cole | 1921 | 1965 | space colonisation | Dandridge M. Cole (my grand-hero-pa) |
| David H. Holtzman | living | technology | David H. Holtzman | |
| Deane Hutton | living | communicator | Deane Hutton | |
| Dennis Gabor | 1900 | 1979 | holography | Dennis Gabor – Autobiography |
| Douglas Engelbart | 1925 | living | hypertext, mouse | Douglas Engelbart |
| Dirk HR Spennemann | living | space heritage | Cultural Heritage Management | |
| Faith Popcorn | 1948 | living | popcorn report | Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve |
| FM-2030 | 1930 | 2000 | transhumanist | FM2030 Access |
| Freeman Dyson | 1923 | living | nuclear engineering, disarmament | Freeman J. Dyson’s Homepage |
| Fred Polak | 1907 | 1985 | social studies | |
| Gaston Berger | 1896 | 1960 | ||
| George Dvorsky | living | transhumanist | Sentient Developments | |
| George Gilder | 1939 | living | society | Gilder Telecosm Forum |
| George Orwell | 1903 | 1950 | writer | George Orwell – Complete works |
| Gerard K. O’Neill | 1927 | 1992 | space colonization | Life of Gerard K. O’Neill |
| Grace Hopper | 1906 | 1992 | women in computing | We Build a Better World |
| Hans Moravec | 1948 | living | Hans Moravec home page | |
| Harlan Cleveland | 1918 | 2008 | diplomacy | The Late Harlan Cleveland on Leadership |
| Herman Kahn | 1922 | 1983 | military strategist | Hudson Institute > Herman Kahn |
| Hugo de Garis | 1947 | living | AI | Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis |
| Jacque Fresco | 1916 | living | architect, resource economics | The Venus Project Future by Design |
| Jamais Cascio | living | ethics | Open the Future | |
| James Hughes | living | ethics | Dr. J. Hughes | |
| James Lovelock | 1919 | living | environmentalist | James LOVELOCK’s web site |
| Jennifer M. Gidley | living | psychologist, educator | President, World Futures Studies Federation | |
| Jerry Fishenden | living | Microsoft future | Jerry Fishenden | |
| Jean Fourastié | 1907 | 1990 | economist | Site Jean Fourastie |
| Jerome C. Glenn | living | futures wheel | ||
| Jim Dator | living | politics | Papers by Jim Dator | |
| Joanne Pransky | living | World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist | ||
| Joël de Rosnay | 1937 | living | molecular biology | |
| John Naisbitt | 1929 | living | megatrends | John Naisbitt |
| John Smart | 1960 | living | acceleration | John Smart Bio |
| Kevin Warwick | 1954 | living | Kevin Warwick – Home Page | |
| Lidewij Edelkoort | 1950 | living | fashion | Edelkoort |
| Magda Cordell McHale | 1921 | 2008 | painter, educator | |
| Marsha Rhea | living | boomers | Institute for Alternative Futures | |
| Mahdi ElMandjra | 1933 | living | economist, sociologist | Site mahdi elmandjra |
| Marshall Brain | 1961 | living | MarshallBrain.com | |
| Marshall McLuhan | 1911 | 1980 | communications | The Official Site of Marshall McLuhan |
| Matthew Simmons | living | peak oil | Simmons & Company International | |
| Meredith Thring | 1915 | 2006 | inventor | |
| 1915 | 1969 | social studies | ||
| Michael Crichton | 1942 | 2008 | Jurassic Park | MichaelCrichton.com |
| Michael E. Arth | 1953 | living | urban design | Michael E. Arth |
| Michio Kaku | 1947 | living | string field theory | Explorations in Science |
| Nicholas Negroponte | 1943 | living | OLPC | Nicholas Negroponte |
| Orrin H. Pilkey | living | crique of environmentalists | Nicholas School Faculty | |
| Patricia Aburdene | living | conscious capitalism | Patricia Aburdene – Mega Trends | |
| Peter Schwartz | 1946 | living | China, Climate Change, Business, Technology | Global Business Network |
| Renzo Provinciali | living | sustainability | ||
| Patrick Dixon | 1957 | living | business | Global Change |
| Peter C. Bishop | 1944 | living | Educator – Strategic Foresight | University of Houston |
| Peter Cochrane | 1946 | living | engineering | Peter Cochrane |
| Peter Newman | living | sustainability | ||
| Peter Russell | 1946 | living | consciousness | Spirit of Now |
| Ray Kurzweil | 1948 | living | AI, transhumanism, technological singularity | Kurzweil Technologies KurzweilAI.net |
| Raymond Spencer Rodgers | 1935 | 2007 | telesphere, food-chain | |
| Renzo Provinciali | 1895 | 1981 | anarchist | |
| Richard C. Duncan | living | peak oil | Minnesotans For Sustainability | |
| Richard Moran | 1950 | living | social scientist | |
| Richard Neville | 1941 | living | fearmonger | |
| Richard Slaughter | living | sociologist | Foresight International | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | 1907 | 1988 | writer | Heinlein Society |
| Robert Anton Wilson | 1932 | 2007 | psychonaut | Who “is” Robert Anton Wilson? |
| Robert Jungk | 1913 | 1994 | journalist | |
| Sohail Inayatullah | 1958 | living | political scientist | Metafuture.org |
| Stanisław Lem | 1921 | 2006 | writer | Official site for the author Stanislaw Lem |
| Stephen Euin Cobb | 1955 | living | transhumanist | Stephen Euin Cobb’s |
| Stewart Brand | 1938 | living | critical thinker and innovator | Stewart Brand |
| Theodore Modis | 1943 | living | business, physics | |
| Vannevar Bush | 1890 | 1974 | analog computing | Vannevar Bush |
| W. Warren Wagar | 1932 | 2004 | historian | Futurist W. Warren Wagar Dies |
| Walter De Brouwer | 1957 | living | OLPC | Walter de Brouwer Biography |
| Wayne Horkan | 1970 | living | transhumanist | Wayne Horkan’s weblog: eclectic |
| William Gilpin | 1813 | 1894 | politician | William Gilpin |
| William Rowley | living | healthcare | Institute for Alternative Futures | |
| Jason Ling | 1975 | living | Social Networking, New Media Technologies and Mobile Technologies | |
| Phil Salin | 1949 | 1991 | cyberspace and the Internet | Salon.com |
| Founder | living | futurepredictions.com |
WIKIPEDIDA’S LIST OF FUTUREOLOGISTS
