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Message: [QUOTE="Aluminny69, post: 2247047, member: 103"] [SIZE=6][B]15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time[/B][/SIZE] [B]1876:[/B] [I]"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."[/I] — William Preece, British Post Office. [B]1876:[/B] [I]"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." [/I]— William Orton, President of Western Union. [B]1889:[/B] [I]“Fooling around with alternating current (AC) is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.”[/I] — Thomas Edison [B]1903:[/B] [I]“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.”[/I] — President of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. [B]1921:[/B] [I]“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?”[/I] [B]1946:[/B] [I]"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." [/I]— Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox. [B]1955:[/B] [I]"Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years."[/I] — Alex Lewyt, President of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company. [B]1959:[/B] [I]"Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."[/I] — Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General. [B]1961:[/B] [I]"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television or radio service inside the United States."[/I] — T.A.M. Craven, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner. [B]1966:[/B] [I]"Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop.”[/I] — Time Magazine. [B]1981:[/B] [I]“Cellular phones will absolutely not replace local wire systems.”[/I] — Marty Cooper, inventor. [B]1995:[/B] [I]"I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." [/I]— Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com. [B]2005:[/B][I] "There's just not that many videos I want to watch."[/I] — Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube expressing concerns about his company’s long term viability. [B]2006:[/B] [I]"Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, 'Probably never.'" [/I]— David Pogue, The New York Times. [B]2007:[/B] [I]“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”[/I] — Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. [/QUOTE]

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