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Re:Nurturing Genius by jacobolus on Monday December 26, 2016 @03:08PM (#13259543)
> how sure are we Microsoft would exist if BG's/PA's parents were illiterate and couldn't afford to give them access to computers?

We can be entirely sure it would not exist. This is not a hard prediction.

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Re:Nurturing Genius by WhitneyLand on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:53PM (#13259970)
I think you're right. But I don't understand why they implied its predictive ability is low.
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