ClaimsSatya Nadella

“It also opens the door to massive growth opportunity – technology spend as a total percentage of GDP will grow with the digitization of nearly everything in life and work.”

Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, in memo to employees 10 July 2014 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella vows to 'reinvent' productivity in huge memo sent to employees (The Next Web) archived copy

Prediction AI, the economy and work

Technology spend as a total percentage of GDP will grow with the digitization of nearly everything in life and work.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

Reasoning

Prediction with no horizon and vague 'will grow' framing.

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Satya Nadella, “Technology spend as a total percentage of GDP will grow with the digitization of nearly everything in life and work.” (said 10 July 2014). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0f0be53813fa, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0f0be53813fa

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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  2. Mostly true Prediction 30 April 2020
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  3. Resolved true Prediction 30 April 2020
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  4. Resolved true Prediction 10 July 2014
    “In this new world, there will soon be more than 3 billion people with Internet-connected devices – from a farmer in a remote part of the world with a smartphone, to a professional power user with…”

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