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Elon Musk made a prediction about the future of the internet in 1998 that some thought was “crazy” but was actually “super obvious.”
Given his status as the founder of companies such as SpaceNeuralink and OpenAI, that’s fair to say Elon Musk know anything about it or when it comes down to it technology. However, when asked about the ‘future of the internet’ more than 26 years ago, the 53-year-old revealed that people thought his prediction was ‘crazy’.
For those of us born just a few years later, the official birthday of the Internet is considered January 1, 1983, with the World Wide Web not being created until 1989 and the Internet reaching the public in 1991. had not existed long when Musk made this prediction.
In an excerpt from an interview between CBS Sunday Morning and Musk, you hear the business mogul ask the question: “What do you see as the future of the internet?”
“I think the Internet is the superset of all media. It’s the be-all and end-all of all media. You’ll see print, broadcast, maybe radio, essentially all media fold into the Internet.
“And what the Internet boils down to is that it is the first two-way communication medium that is intelligent. It allows consumers to choose what they want to see, when they want to see it and whether that’s radio or print or that. TV or broadcast. I think it will revolutionize all traditional media.”
Well, 26 years later, and he’s not entirely wrong, Musk himself reshared the video on December 10 with the caption: “The crazy thing is they thought I was crazy for making this obvious prediction.”
And it won’t be long social media users flock to the post to weigh in.
Musk claims people thought he was ‘crazy’ for making the prediction (YouTube/CBS Sunday Morning/Twiwtter/@elonmusk)
A Tweet user wrote: “Just admit it. You don’t have to hide it anymore. You’re from the future, right?”
“Foresight seems obvious now, but it wasn’t in 1998,” added a second.
A YouTube user wrote: “the fact that his prediction was almost exactly right is insane.”
Although another commented: “A lucky guess.”
“Damn. Microphone cuts out, honestly,” wrote a fifth.
And a sixth concluded: “What I want to know is where are our flying cars?”
Featured image credits: CBS Sunday Morning/YouTube/Marc Piasecki
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