11 failed Predictions

Here is the list of 11 failed technology prediction:

• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" -- Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)

• "We will never make a 32 bit operating system" -- Bill Gates

• "There is practically no chance communication satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United states" -- T. Craven, FFC Commissioner in 1961.  

• "A rocket will never be able to leave the earth's atmosphere." -- New York Times, 1936.

• "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."  -- Simon Newcomb; The Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk 18 months later.

• "There will never be a bigger plane built" A Boeing engineer.

• "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." -- Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company in 1955.

• "Television wont last, its a flash in the pan." -- Mary Somerville, pioneer of radio educational broadcast, 1948.

• "X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- Lord Kelvin, President od the Royal society, 1883.

• "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, 1916

• "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, 1878.

And in the present century one should think several times before using the word impossible.

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