So much of life is pure luck, being in the right place at the right time.

This is not that.

Here are some other examples of tech visionaries:

Aug 2006: Elon Musk publishes "The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan"

https://www.tesla.com/blog/secret-tesla-motors-master-plan-just-between-you-and-me

May 1995: Bill Gates writes an internal memo titled "The Internet Tidal Wave"

http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/07/internet-tidal-wave.html

2003: Ben Affleck predicts the rise of streaming services like Spotify and Netflix and explains the economics behind the business models.

1999: David Bowie explains why the internet is not just another tool, why it’s not simply a different delivery system

1967: Educational video (produced with consultants from Bell Labs) predicts the future of e-commerce, video conferencing, and social networks.

By contrast... https://twitter.com/alecstapp/status/1105826226080497665?s=21

June 1997: Jeff Bezos explains why attention is the ultimate scarce commodity in the age of the internet (and why word-of-mouth & earned media were so important to Amazon's growth).

(h/t @BrianRoemmele)

June 1997: Jeff Bezos explains why print advertising is so much worse than online advertising ("a marketer's nirvana"), effectively predicting the rise of ad-based business models years before Google and Facebook were founded.

(h/t @BrianRoemmele)