Top Silly Tech Predictions By Kelly Dolan
Have you ever made a statement during a
conversation and suffered the humiliation of being proven wrong? Well how about if instead of a friend or a colleague putting you in your place, it was the whole world?
Here is a collection of comments and predictions regarding technology that serve to highlight just how wrong mankind can be. What’s your favourite?
‘Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we’re not going
to buy your product.’ - Joe Keenan, President of Atari, in 1976 responding to Steve Jobs’ offer to sell him rights to the new personal computer he and Steve Wozniak developed.
‘The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.’ - Sydney Brenner
‘No one will need more than 637KB of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough
for anybody.’ - Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981
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‘The Internet is a great way to get on the Net.’ - Bob Dole
‘Everything that can be invented has been
invented.’ - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
‘The world potential market for copying machines is 5000
at most.’ — IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify
production, 1959. ‘There is no reason anyone would want a computer in
their home.’ — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
‘I have travelled 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.’ - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
‘I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers.’ - IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
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