Had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Metcalf in Austin at the UT student startup presentations in 2018, always stimulating and interesting to hear his viewpoint.
One of my favorites of his predictions via wikipedia was:
Metcalfe predicted in 1995 that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not.
During his keynote speech at the sixth International World Wide Web Conference in 1997, he took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass.[14][15][16]
He had tried to eat his words printed on a very large cake, but the audience would not accept this form of "eating his words."
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[ 5.3 ms ] story [ 14.5 ms ] threadOne of my favorites of his predictions via wikipedia was:
Metcalfe predicted in 1995 that the Internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" the following year; he promised to eat his words if it did not.
During his keynote speech at the sixth International World Wide Web Conference in 1997, he took a printed copy of his column that predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass.[14][15][16]
He had tried to eat his words printed on a very large cake, but the audience would not accept this form of "eating his words."