Giving an interview to 60 Minutes Australia in 1999, the Amazon founder also suggested computers would eventually become powerful enough to take on tasks for humans, and that we would reach a stage that when speaking on the phone, people would not be able to tell if they were communicating with another person or a computer, perhaps predicting the rise of artificial intelligence which has begun in the 2020s.
Predicting the future in 1999: Tech predictions 25 years on
