Teleconferencing – in which you can share data, images and speech – will make the concept of much business travel redundant … Already airlines are scaling down their expectations of numbers of business travelers toward the end of the century, and it’s the computer that is to blame.
The personal computer is evolving all the time. It’s going to take over the world … The future lies with the dealing with information in real time. Selling pre-recorded stuff – no matter how entertaining, like videos – down the line will not make a fortune for anyone.
I don’t think anyone will give a shit … If people wanted videos-on-demand, there would be home deliveries of cassettes as well as pizzas by now. But I’ve never heard of them.
Take that convergence of the computer and the television, a coalescing of technologies that should allow us to shunt around all those movies, spreadsheets, video shots, and “picture” telephone calls on one screen. “It’s a bit like talking about the convergence of the horseless carriage and the modern automobile,” says Grove. “The proper word is replacement. The computer is taking over the television.”
You, Inc. is a reality.
Globalization and the information revolution run the world. What can we do? Adapt or die … We need to develop a higher tolerance for disorder to cope with this new world. That doesn’t mean accepting disorder, but rather, working with the disorder to introduce order.
What will drive (the PC industry) forward is going to be communications.
People will carry newspapers under their arms, but some will get it in other ways … Operational excellence might not be enough in your business … There are reasons to believe you might need a rethinking of the business.
There will be a credibility industry.
Watch for a nascent culture of virtual reality that underscores the ways in which we construct gender and the self, the ways in which we become what we play, argue about, and build. And watch for a culture that leaves new space for the idea that he or she who plays, argues, and builds might be doing so with a machine.