10 worst quotes about tech prediction.

1. "Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished gone, kaput."-Sir Alan Sugar (2005)

2. "No need for a computer at home."-Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment (1977)

3. "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years."-Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt Corp Vacuum company, (1955)

4. " There will never be a bigger plane built."-Boeing engineer, after the maiden flight of 10 seater Boeing 247 (1933)

5. "TV won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night"-Darryl Zanuck. (1946)

6. "We stand on the treshold of rocket mail."-US postmaster general Arthur Summerfield. (1959)

7. "Nobody would ever neeed more than 640 kilobytes of memory on their personal computer."-Bill Gates, 1981

8. "The Americans have need for telephone but we do not as we have plenty of messenger boys."-Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, (1878)

9. "Spam will be solved."-Bill Gates, (2004)

10 "X-rays will prove to be a hoax."-Lord Kelvin, president of the UK's Royal Society (1883)


Oh boy they could not be any further from the truth...