10 Worst Technology Predictions

(The author of the ninth is interesting)

"Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development."
- Roman Engineer Julius Sextus Frontius in 10 A.D.

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."
- Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of British Post Office, 1878

"Everything that can be invented has already been invented"
- Charles Duell, Commissioner for the U.S. Patent Office, 1899

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"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

"The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at the most"
- IBM executives to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home"
- Ken Olsen, Founder of mainframe-producer Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer - 640 kb ought to be enough for everybody"
- Bill Gates, Microsoft, 1981

"Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, and kaput"
- Sir Alan Sugar, British entrepreneur, 2005