Dreams for Jobs, Gates and Bezos about technology

Innovators are known as fertile imagination; they are like children imagining the impossible and chasing it down, and Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos have done so by predicting the future of technology that has now become reality.

Nine old predictions by technology giants prior to 2000, achieved during the new millennium, are:

Steve Jobs

1 - iPad and Siri dream of the eighties
Jobs predicted that we would carry tablets with aides inside them, which is the basis of the idea of ​​the iPad, iPhone and Siri from Apple.

"The next stage will be to use computers as assistants," Jobs told Newsweek in 1984. "In other words, it will be as if there is a little person inside this box who starts to anticipate what you want."

"I always thought it would be really nice to have a small box, which is the kind of board you can carry with you," Jobs told the magazine.

Apple iPhone was launched in 2007, and Apple's Siri Assistant was launched in 2010.

2- Your car on request
Jobs told Wired magazine in 1996 that car dealers spend a lot of money on manufacturing and storing cars; stock of cars is not a good thing; it is stored money, it is out of date, and it takes a long time and a tremendous amount of time to manage it. "All you have to do is get one white car to drive and maybe a laser printer to see the other colors. Then you can order your car and you will get it in a week."

Tesla Electric Motor Company opened its first showroom in 2008 in Los Angeles, and its famous stores have very few cars on site. Buyers can order their custom vehicles with a sales representative or online.

3- Cloud storage started by mail
In the same interview with Wired magazine, Steve Jobs said that he does not store any files on the storage devices, but send them to himself by e-mail, where he can open them wherever he is, without the need to carry special storage devices.

Apple launched iCloud in 2011 to automatically save our files online through cloud services, such as Google Drive and Dropbox.

Bill Gates

1- Your home is monitored by the Internet
Gates predicted the spread of online home surveillance. "Business @ the Speed ​​of Thought," said in 1999, "static videos of your home will become popular, which inform you when someone visits you while you're not at home."

Recently, Amazon's doorbell security cameras have been widely adopted in the United States, and even some local police departments have access to these videos, creating an unofficial surveillance system for video bells.

2- Smart advertising
"Devices will be able to show you the right ad, which is called a smart ad, where they'll see your buying trends, and show ads tailored to your interests." This is what Gates wrote in his book "Business @ The Speed ​​of Thought."

Today, it is widely believed that Facebook and Instagram listen to users' smartphones, and then display ads based on their talk.

3- Online recruitment
In his 1999 book, Gates also predicted that people looking for work would be able to find jobs online by announcing their interest, needs and specialized skills.

Four years after that prediction, LinkedIn began, in 2003, with 154 million US workers on the network in February 2019, according to HotSweet.

Jeff Bezos

1- Amazon is more than just a library
"I bet you a year from now, they will not consider us direct competitors," Bezos told Wired when asked about his rival Burns & Nobles. The future of e-commerce, and they just defend their livelihood. "

Amazon is a powerful online marketplace that goes beyond books, with sales of hardware, video, music and logistics just a few examples of Amazon's vast empire.

2- In 2020 you will buy toilet paper from Amazon
Bezos predicted in an interview in 1999 that the bulk of goods purchased in 2020 would be from basic food stores; paper products, cleaning supplies, and the like.

In 2014, Amazon launched the Amazon Prime Pantry, which offers “low-cost food and household items”, from laundry detergents to shampoos.

3. Internet-connected homes
Bezos told journalist Charlie Rose of Bloomberg in a 1999 interview that he was a strong believer in the idea of ​​small things in the house connected to the Internet, where he said there would be a whole bunch of things connected to the Internet to control home functions.

Now, Alexa and Internet-connected digital aids control home services, from headphones to home security systems.