Foolish Tech Prediction 5
"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."
Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995
To his credit, Metcalfe made good on that promise in 1999 during his keynote speech at the International World Wide Web Conference, where he blended up a copy of his printed column with some liquid and drank it down before a crowd of onlookers.
Foolish Tech Predition 6
"Apple is already dead."
Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997
Who could have predicted that, a little more than a decade later, that same company would be steadily increasing its share of the PC market while utterly dominating the digital music business and rapidly overtaking the field in the smart phone market?
Foolish Tech Predition 7
"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004
So, uh, good guess, Bill. Glad that's been taken care of.
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