Re: Worst Predictions of All Time
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- Date: 11 Jan 2008 14:02:13 -0800
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Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. - Popular
Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
[snip]
My computer certainly "weighs no more that 1.5 tons". So that one is
true.
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
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Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
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"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from theEricksen, surgeon
intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." -John Eric
to Queen Victoria, 1873
"Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will havecurtailed." -journalist
diminished, and their fees will have been vastly
Junius Henri Browne, 1893
"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything."
-Albert Einstein's teacher to Einstein's father, 1895
"It would appear we have reached the limits of what it ispossible to
achieve with computer technology." -computer scientist Johnvon Neumann,
1949
"The Japanese don't make anything the people in the U.S.would want."
-Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 1954
"Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a realitywithin 10
years." -Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Vacuum Cleaner Company,
quoted in the New York Times, June 10, 1955
"Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be deliveredwithin hours
from New York to Australia by guided missiles. We stand onthe threshold
of rocket mail." -Arthur Summerfield, U.S. Postmaster General under
Eisenhower, 1959
"By the turn of the century, we will live in a paperless society."
-Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, 1986
"I predict the internet ... will go spectacularly supernovaand in 1996
catastrophically collapse." -Bob Metcalfe, InfoWorld, 1995
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