25 Years Ago, Bill Gates Predicted Netflix, iPhones, and Facebook. Here's What He Got Wrong

In 1995, Bill Gates, then CEO of one of the world’s most successful companies, made some daring predictions about the future we’re now living in. Most of those predictions were uncanny in their accuracy, although a few were completely off-base. Now, 25 years later, with a new book coming out next year, he’s looking back at those predictions, grading his own younger effort, and looking ahead to what’s next.Here are some of Gates’ most amazing predictions from 1995.1. He foresaw smartphones almost exactly.”I was thinking and learning about these things obsessively back then,” Gates writes in a new blog post that looks back at his 1995 book The Road Ahead. That effort paid off when he looked ahead at what he called “the wallet PC.” Aside from the name, he was describing today’s smartphone in startling detail. Here’s some of what he wrote back in 1995:It will be about the same size as a wallet, which means you’ll be able to carry it in your pocket or purse. It will display messages and schedules and let you read or send electronic mail and faxes,  » Read More