That's what they said about personal computers - Negroponte, OLPC, etc.
Like with global warming, those predictions were abysmal failures. It turned out mobile phones gave people enough processing power (experts never saw that coming) and so did cloud (you can buy and pay by the second, also not predicted by "experts").
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 10.3 ms ] threadLike with global warming, those predictions were abysmal failures. It turned out mobile phones gave people enough processing power (experts never saw that coming) and so did cloud (you can buy and pay by the second, also not predicted by "experts").