Guess who said this in 2004: "Two years from now, (email) spam will be solved"

Choose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Correct Answer: Bill Gates, Microsoft What was Comdex before it was shut down in the early 2000s? At the 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates – then Microsoft's Chief Software Architect – made a bold prediction: within two years, the problem of email spam would be solved. Gates outlined a few possible solutions, two of which involved requiring senders to solve computational puzzles (a concept similar to what we now know as proof-of-work). But his preferred solution was a monetary system in which email senders would pay a small fee, similar to a digital postage stamp, to send a message. Trusted contacts like friends and family could be exempt from the charge. "Two years from now, spam will be solved," Gates said, expressing confidence in the monetization model. "In the long run, the monetary [method] will be dominant." However, reality played out differently. By 2007, far from being solved, spam had reached rec ... Read full article.