Nine predictions about the internet Steve Jobs nailed 20 years ago

Kif LeswingMar 15, 2016, 22:30 IST

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In 1996, Google was still a research project at Stanford, the state-of-the-art PC operating system was Windows 95, and Amazon was a small startup selling books.

And Steve Jobs was not yet back at Apple when he gave a remarkably prescient interview to Wired's website the same year. Although the iMac, iPod, and iPhone were still years away, and Jobs was working at NeXT, he clearly saw where the computing industry was headed.

And although his later work at Apple clearly influenced the way things turned out, he still offers a slew of predictions that are shockingly accurate today.

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Nine predictions about the internet Steve Jobs nailed 20 years ago