Yes, he is the same guy, he also invented the optical scanner, speech to text, and text to speech systems,a s well as predicting the rise of the internet in the mid-90's as well as several other things that have come to pass (Chess computer beating a human chess master in 1999, except that it actually happened two years earlier than he predicted, cars being driven by computers before 2010 - already happening, and so on).
He also has a lot to say about the specific predictions about the future.
You cannot for instance predict who will be the developer fo a piece of technology, or what type of technology will eventually be the specific driving force for a certain application (memory, CPUs, Power Generation, etc), but that they ALL appear to be on an unbroken line of continuous increasing capabilities. When one technological pradigm begins to hit an asymptotic wall, another paradigm will take over for it.
To take a few specific cases:
In the case of internal combustion engines for example: First was the deisel, then gasoline spark ignition engines, then along came turbo adn supercharging of those same technologies, then came Turbines, and MHD turbines, Ramjets, Scramjets, etc. Each continuing the increase of capabilities until the paradigm of their use switches to another paradigm, say that of electric motors of some sort, which will slowly replace internal combustion engines and continue to develop in capability. Eventually, you will only see internal combustion engines in applications where there is some sort of aesthetic behind the application.
Or, take for instance, bateries. They began as large Leyton Jars, full of acid. Eventually they were replaced by slightly safer batteries that were enclosed, but still basically a leyton jar. Then the dry cell was invented as the capabilities of the Liquid cell were beginning to reach their max... Then hybrid cells that contained the properties of both. Now we see Lithium and other alloy batteries that exceed the capabilities of both earlier paradigms, and even there the alloyed-core battery is being overtaken by nano-scaled developments of the older paradigms, which when applied to the alloy-core batteries will again put them in a position to be able to provide more power with less hear, in a smaller package.
The same thing is true of semi-condutors. First came mechanical relays, then vacuum tubes, then the solid-state transistor, then integrated circuits, and lithographed chips, and so on... Each paradigm giving way to a new one when the previous one began to see an asymptote appear. At a fine scale you will see the "s' curves, but when plotted on a scale of years to decades, the progression remains firmly exponential.
