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May 29, 2003

[FiRe] Predictions by Martin Tobias

These are notes from the Future in Review conference. More here.

Martin Tobias, a venture capitalist with Ignition Partners and formerly founder of Loudeye, had a few predictions about the coming five years, of which I noted down six:

  1. The economics of personal computing hardware ("Moore's Law") will be transferred into networking gear.
  2. Meaningful products will come out of nanotechnology, esp. in material sciences.
  3. Bankruptcies in venture capital will happen, and there will be less money flowing into venture capital.
  4. There will be a broadband blowout with real applications.
  5. Instant messaging will be integrated into more applications, especially automated Web services.
  6. There will not be any business model for a Wi-Fi ISP.
Posted by Stefan Smalla on May 29, 2003 at 20:00 | Permalink