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This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

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Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions.

Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

Times 15.

So excited to be bringing you part five of our annual special this is predictions

on steroids we find fondly call it 2018 predictions part five and we are live here on january 17th

2018 so welcome a hundred times in total on this five part special we will have brought you more than

70 thought leaders.

That's right.

Seven-oh, count them.

I think we're inching up towards 75 with their predictions for what's coming up this year and even beyond.

In the world's business and strategy and technology, brilliant minds, great thinkers.

Let me just start off by telling you three, four things that were

very, very, very wrongly predicted way back in the day so we can level set a little bit here.

Here's a quote from Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Deck, Digital Equipment Corporation.

He said in 1977, there was no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

Just let that sink in for a second.

Here's another one.

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