Top 10 Bad Tech Predictions

Just in case you think prediction is easy or better done by experts . . .

A timely post just before the 2013 forecast season!

Top 10 Bad Tech Predictions

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1. “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” – Sir William Preece, 1878.
2. “The phonograph has no commercial value at all.” – Thomas Edison, 1880s
3. “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” – Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
4. “Machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do” – Herbert Simon, 1956.
5. “The time has come to close the book on infectious diseases. We have basically wiped out infection in the United States.” – William Stewart, 1967
6. “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken Olson, 1977
7. “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” – Robert Metcalfe, 1995
8. “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.” – Clifford Stoll, 1995
9. Y2K “is a crisis without precedent in human history.” – Edmund DeJesus, 1998
10. “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.” – Sir Alan Sugar, 2005.

Stephen