Howard Anderson

I am going to let you in on a secret: there never, ever was a Y2K problem

It was with great sadness that I watched the curtain fall on Iridium a few weeks ago. That day, I received dozens of e-mail congratulations from those who had seen Yankee Group research and my own prognostications going back five years saying the Iridium LLC concept was fatally flawed. But I felt terrible nonetheless.

Twenty years ago I used to bemuse audiences on the rubber chicken circuit by talking about a Brave New World where computing would be free and bandwidth unlimited. (The industry was not ready for a Technology Communist, even one with a Harvard Business degree.)