No future for DVDs, Bill Gates says

CHIEF SOFTWARE Architect of the Universe, Bill Gates, has been staring into his crystal ball and sees no future for the DVD.

In an article published in the German mass-circulation daily Bild, Gates said DVD technology would be "obsolete in 10 years at the latest".

He said the concept of carrying around film and music on little silver discs to stick them into a computer was ridiculous. He moaned that DVDs could get scratched or get lost.

Gates said that the home computer will know who we are from our voice or our face. It will know what we want to watch, our favourite programmes, or what the kids shouldn't be allowed to see.

Here the crystal ball clouded over due to a blue screen of death. Bill's predictions and his crystal balls can be a little inaccurate. He once said that there was no future in that little networking novelty called the Internet. µ