Predictions and forecasts of this kind always kill me – that’s why I try to shy away from making them myself (unless I’m feeling confident; I allowed myself to predict a landslide victory for Obama in 2008, for example). These technology-related predictions, though, are downright amusing. A couple examples:
5. “Do not bother to sell your gas shares. The electric
light has no future.” –Professor John Henry Pepper, Victorian-era
celebrity scientist, sometime in the 1870s
6. “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.
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