TEchnology

PREdictions

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Computers in the future may weigh no more than

1.5 tons.

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-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

I think there is a world market for maybe �ve computers.

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”-- IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in

their home.

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”-- Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

640K ought to be enough for

anybody.

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-- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981

Almost all of the many predictions now being

made about 1996 hinge on the Internet's continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996

catastrophically collapse.

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”-- Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995