ClaimsMarc Andreessen

“Among other things the commercialization is absolutely going to guarantee that the Net will be there.”

Marc Andreessen, Netscape founder and COO June 1995 Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories: Marc Andreessen (Smithsonian) archived copy

Prediction Economics and markets

Among other things, commercialization will guarantee that the Net will be there.

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?

Reasoning

Open-ended prediction about the Internet's continued existence with no horizon and vague terms.

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Marc Andreessen, “Among other things, commercialization will guarantee that the Net will be there.” (said June 1995). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_5ab248e4d583, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_5ab248e4d583

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