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Werner Vogels

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

And if you think how they work, most of them are day laborers.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

That means that they go to the bank, they get $2, they buy something, they try to sell it, they bring the $2 back and hope to have 40 cents left to buy food.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

They probably have that.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

But then they don't have money left to cook it.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

Because these big canisters, these butane canisters, cost $10.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

And they don't have $10.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

And so there's a young company called Coco Networks that built a sort of ATM where you can go with a canister.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

You plop the canister in and you say, give me 15 cents of gas.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

And then you can take that home.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

You can cook your food.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

Yeah, now, this is not a world-shocking problem, but it is solving really hard problems that people have.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

And those kind of companies are really the ones that, and those kind of problems are often kind of the things that I like to service through the predictions.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

This year, you know, I do think there are things every year.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

I mean, I could have done 10 predictions.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

You could have.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

But that doesn't work that fairly well.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

But, you know, was it two years ago?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Werner Vogels predicts the future (Interview)

An example, a topic that has become more and more openly discussable is menopause for women.