Eerily-prescient predictions from 1998

[Thrax]

How about foreseeing the coming of Google, the death of Altavista, and the folly of Compaq's purchase of DEC? Oh yeah (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23412), these are good ones, straight from 1998.

[Your Amish Daddy]

It's like that guy knew Nostradamus..

[primesuspect]

I call BS. This reads like a spoof.

The really cheesy part is when they call Google "Gaggle, or gargle, or something silly" (i'm paraphrasing).

[Kwitko]

I concur. I call shenanigans. Unless, of course, Herr Thrax already knew it was a hoax, and his tongue was planted firmly in cheek.

[Snarkasm]

It looks less like predictions out of thin air and more like educated guesses on the things to come. Most of the stuff he mentions is based off of things that had already started when he wrote it (the MS antitrust investigation, the Google start, the fact that Compaq had already bought somebody else, so they'd be looking to capitalize on it, etc.). Neat, but not amazing.

[Leonardo]

Did you a miss the phrase right underneath the title?Don't knock 20-20 hindsight until you've tried it.

[Snarkasm]

Heh. Nice.

[Lincoln]

This reads like a spoof.
You don't say.

[Thrax]

;)