10 technology predictions that was dead wrong

many apologies for the 2 months disappearance. so, let's get to it. one of my most favourite topics of all - technology. i love technology and i love how we're advancing at an exponential rate. it's a good time to be alive and enjoy the wonderful things we human beings have created.

it's amazing to me how people could live without the things we have now. i know that there are some new technology that we think that are useless and you'd think no one would ever use it. which brings me to the main topic. the people of the past... they had the same feeling. and even some of the brilliant minds were so confident with their thought on the technology of the past. but they were so wrong. so dead wrong. so read on.

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let's start with something recent. the computer has been an important part of our lives. it consumes us and i personally have never gone a day without turning on my computer. but in 1977, Ken Olson (chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp) said, "there's no reason anyone would want a computer in their homes." so dead wrong.

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“To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.” — Lee DeForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, in 1926. he was proven very wrong 5 years later.

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“There will never be a bigger plane built.” — A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people. thank goodness he was wrong.. imagine being cramped in with 9 other people. it'll be fun though if you were flying with your large family. a plane to yourselves. ':)

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“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.” -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916. ironic that he even said that since cinema made him famous.

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“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.” — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer, Horace Rackham, not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903. one word - haha!

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“How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s. hmmm maybe if he'd listen to the guy, he'd won the war.

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“[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, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946. a foolish foolish man.

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“Dear Mr. President: The canal system of this country is being threatened by a new form of transportation known as ‘railroads’ … As you may well know, Mr. President, ‘railroad’ carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of 15 miles per hour by ‘engines’ which, in addition to endangering life and limb of passengers, roar and snort their way through the countryside, setting fire to crops, scaring the livestock and frightening women and children. The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.” — Martin Van Buren, Governor of New York, 1830(?). so freakin' funny...

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“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876). someone give him a Nokia.

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and finally to the most recent one.. one of the richest man in the world today who was so bold to even predict this. but most funny of all it was about what he does best. why make it since i think it'll hurt himself?

“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates

thanks for the 64 bit operating system Mr. Gates. you really scared us there for a second.

so people, don't judge a new technology so hastily. it might come handy one day.
hope you had a good laugh everyone!

till next time.