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