The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time
* “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”—Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
* “The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”—Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office, 1876
* “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”—Western Union internal memo, 1876.
* “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
* “Everyone’s always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, ‘Probably never.'”—David Pogue, The New York Times, 2006
