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There won't be newspapers, magazines and TV programs. There won't be personal, social communications offline and separate. In 10 years it will all be online. Static content won't cut it in the future.
| Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, June 2009 |
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There will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form. Everything gets delivered in an electronic form.
| Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft, 5 June 2008 |
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"The techie-dominated Web holds limited appeal for today’s mainstream consumers."
| Jupiter Communications, August 1996 |
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"Its going to take several years to sign up large numbers of [Internet] customers"
| Glenn Britt, President, Time Warner Cable Ventures, 1996 |
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"It is simply too slow [the Internet] in its present state."
| Jupiter Communications, August 1996 |
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"The Internet is still very much an American preserve."
| Durlacher Research, July 1997 |
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"The Internet animates and integrates all our markets and all of us."
| Marjorie Scardino, Chief Executive, Pearson plc, May 1997 |
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"The Internet is now big enough that it qualifies as a mass market"
| Vinton Cerf, President, The Internet Society, 1995 |
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"The data superhighway is the most important marketplace of the 21st century"
| Al Gore, Vice President, USA, May 1993 |
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"I don't believe that the net is suitable for entertainment."
| Phil Monego, President, NetChannel, US, April 1998 |
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"Convenience is king."
| Bob Pittman, President, AOL, US, August 1998 |
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"In 5 years time all companies will be Internet companies, or they won't be companies at all."
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"We cannot all make money from the Internet, not at least until there are some profits."
| Sir Clive Thomson, Chairman, CBI, UK, November 1999 |
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"In some period of time, let's say five years, there won't be any internet companies. There will be companies that use the internet; all companies that will operate will use the internet in their business operations, or they will be marginalised out of operations."
| Andy Grove, President, Intel Corporation, USA, September 1999 |
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"I get sick of hearing about it. Web site this, dot com that - it drives you up the bloody wall."
| Derek Smith, Truck Driver, Grimsby, UK, December 1999 |
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"The current internet audience measurement system never ceases to produce results that are complete garbage. As it stands, the system is an institutionalised farce, with most media owners stretching the truth in the knowledge that their competitors are doing the same."
| Paul Cook, Managing Director, Redeye, UK, January 2000 |
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"At the moment it can be cumbersome and slow to get around and buy things on the internet. When you just have to switch on your TV I think it's going to be huge."
| Jan Sheperdson, Brand Director, Top Shop, UK, February 2000 |
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"I recall someone saying, ten years ago, that the only groups to make money from the Internet would be pornographers and lawyers. He was right."
| Simon Jenkins, The Times, UK, September 2000 |
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