In-Stat Forum Good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here today. At least they won't ask me to forecast next month's DRAM prices. Making forecasts or predictions can be a dangerous occupation.
History is littered with famous predictions that missed their mark.
And I'm sure Thomas Watson wishes he had never said that there was need for maybe five computers in the entire world. Some of the biggest missed predictions were more sins of omission. Lots of people predicted space travel but no one envisioned a world population glued to their TV sets watching a live picture of men landing on the moon. You could argue that TV has done more to change our lives than space travel ever has or ever will. So with those humbling examples fresh in our minds, I'd like to do two things this afternoon.