Bill Gates

Email spam will be a solved problem by January 2006.

“Two years from now, spam will be solved”

Said on

24 January 2004 · Remarks to delegates at the World Economic Forum, Davos, as Microsoft chief software architect

Source

Gates: we'll kill spam in two years · The Register

Should come true

Jan 2006

How sure they sounded

stated as fact ("will be solved")

Categories

Technology

Importance

2 of 5 · Spam affects email users worldwide but is a problem within the technology/email field.

Outcome

Inaccurate

Spam was not solved by early 2006: an itnews report on the two-year anniversary (23 Jan 2006) found spam still widespread, and 2007 set a record with spam outnumbering legitimate email. Spam remains a large share of global email traffic today.

Evidence:

• https://www.itnews.com.au/news/two-years-after-gates-prediction-spam-still-exists-64153
• https://www.techspot.com/news/70175-who-two-years-now-email-spam-solved.html