People love to predict. More than prediction people love to put someone else down. It gives them a sense of superiority over others. Most of the time “The Fallen RISE” and show us a thing or two on how things are done. Same goes with technology. But technology moves so fast it’s very dangerous to predict and even more embarrassing to put someone else down because you will never know who is going to create the next BIG thing. Here is the list of the five most arrogant technology predictions by famous personalities that embarrassingly never came true.
- “We don’t need you. You haven’t even got through college yet” – Hewlett-Packard rejects Steve Jobs
- “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” or “No one will need more than 637 kilobytes of memory for a personal computer.” – Bill Gates in 1981
- “The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” IBM to the founders of Xerox in 1959
- “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput” Sir Alan Sugar in 2005.
- “By the end of calendar year 1999, the Mac platform will have the best gaming machines available to the general consumer.” – Robert Paul Leitlao, in 1998.
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