Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

In addition to co-inventing Ethernet technology at Xeroc PARC labs in 1973, Bob Metcalfe is famous for:

  1. Metcalfe's Law that a network system's value is proportional to the square of its user population

  2. Predicting in 1997 that the Internet would soon fail due to traffic or he would eat his words -- and did, mushing his paper with liquid in a blender a year later

  3. Predicting that Microsoft Windows 2000 would kill Linux, likening the open source movement to "utopian balderdash" with "open sores"

  4. All of the above
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Bob Metcalfe is famous for all three accomplishments: co-inventing Ethernet, formulating Metcalfe's Law about network value, and making failed predictions about the Internet (which he literally ate his words about by blending his column). The 1997 Internet collapse prediction and his Windows 2000 vs Linux comments are both documented tech industry moments.

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