9 mind-blowing tech predictions Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos made decades ago, from the iPhone to online shopping
- Apple founder Steve Jobs, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos had looked into the future before the turn of the century – and predicted the rise of iPhones, Siri, Amazon and smart homes, among many other life-changing technologies
Silicon Valley tech moguls Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos made predictions before the new millennium that are still coming true today.
Here are 9 prescient predictions made by the tech execs before the turn of the century.
Steve Jobs
Jobs predicted that we would carry around “slates” with “agents” – basically, iPhones with Siri.
Prediction (1984): “The next stage is going to be computers as ‘agents’,” Jobs told Newsweek Access magazine. “In other words, it will be as if there’s a little person inside that box who starts to anticipate what you want.”
“I’ve always thought it would be really wonderful to have a little box, a sort of slate that you could carry along with you,” Jobs told Newsweek.
Today: The iPhone was released in 2007, and the iOS digital assistant Siri launched in 2010.
