Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

David Pogue writing for Scientific American:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pogue-all-time-worst-tech-predictions

My favorites:

 "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."—Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office, 1876

 "I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders."—Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, Inc., 1997


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