Unfulfilled predictions of future technologies

"There is no reason for which people would want to have a personal computer at home" - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.



"We never release a 32-bit operating system" - Bill Gates.



"The probability that a space satellite will be used to improve the quality of telephone, telegraph, radio and television in the territory of the United States is almost zero," - T. Craven, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, 1961.



"The rocket will never be able to go beyond the Earth's atmosphere», - New York Times, 1936.



"Flying machines heavier than air is inexpedient and has no practical value, if not impossible," - Simon Newcomb, an American astronomer, mathematician.



"Creating aircraft heavier than air is impossible" - Lord Kelvin, British physicist and engineer.



"Do not ever be able to build large aircraft" - Engineer The Boeing Company after the first flight of the US 10-seater passenger aircraft Boeing 247.



"Vacuum driving the nuclear energy will become a reality in 10 years" - Alex Lyuit, president of the company for the production of vacuum cleaners Lewyt Corporation, 1955.



"The energy that arises as a result of nuclear fission, is so small that anyone who expects to receive an additional source of energy from nuclear reaction betrayed a pipe dream" - Ernest Rutherford.



"There is not the slightest evidence that will ever be possible to get nuclear energy. To do this you need to learn how to split the atom arbitrarily "- Albert Einstein.



"Cinema - is nothing more than a fashion. It is recorded on tape play. Flesh and blood - that's what the audience really wants to see on the stage "- Charlie Chaplin.



"The horse will always remain, and the car - it is just a novelty, fashionable hobby" - the president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham refrain from investing in Ford Motor Co.



"Americans need a phone, and we - no. We have plenty of messenger boys "- Sir William Preece, the engineer of the British Post Office.



"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to seriously consider it as a means of communication. For us, this device is useless "- memo to Western Union, in 1878 (or 1876).



"I must admit that my imagination can not draw any sort was a submarine that is capable of something more than strangulation is in her crew and hanging out in a sea of ​​meaningless" - HG. Wells, English writer 1901 year.



"It will be shown that X-rays - a fiction" - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.



"The idea is that instead of the cavalry come these iron carriages, absurd. This is not much different from adultery "- Field Marshal Haig adjutant comment on demonstration tank maneuvers, 1916.



"How, sir, you will be able to make a ship sail against the wind and currents using divorced below deck fire? I do not have time to listen to this nonsense "- Napoleon Bonaparte.



"All of these games with alternating current - a waste of time. Nobody ever going to use it "- Thomas Edison.



"Home recording on tape killing music" - the slogan of the campaign, held in 1980 BPI.



"Television will not last long. This is a complete failure, "- Mary Somerville, creator of educational broadcasts, 1948.



"Television will not be able to resist in any market for more than six months after its introduction. People will soon get tired every night staring at a plywood box "- Darryl F. Zanuck, American producer, screenwriter and director.

"When closes the Paris Exhibition (1878), it will go along with it, and electric lights, and no one else about him never hear '' Professor at Oxford University Erasmus Wilson.



"Rail travel at high speeds is not possible because of lack of air passengers will die from asphyxia" - Dr. Dionysis Larder (1793-1859).



"The wireless music box has no commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nowhere? "- David Sarnoff companions in response to the call of the latter to invest in radio in 1921.



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