Boldly predicting about technology usually leads to a laugh.
Just troll through old copies of Popular Mechanics.
Check out these predictions on computers and the internet:
Popular Mechanics, 1949
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
Editor of Prentice Hall business books, 1957
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.
Ken Olsen, 1977
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Bill Gates, 1989
We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
Bill Gates, 1987
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
Bill Gates, 2004
Spam will be a thing of the past in two years’ time.
Sir Alan Sugar, 2005
Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.
I wonder what we will be laughing at in 5-10 years?
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Yohan Perera says
Can’t imagine that Bill Gates said these…
Eric Dye says
There’s nothing like living under a microscope!