Fun: Information Week's 12 Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

These are often fun to review - but also a reminder of how limited our vision can be:

1. "No one will need more than 637KB of memory for a personal computer. 640KB ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft
2. "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." --Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp.
3. "I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." --Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, inventor of Ethernet, tech pundit and columnist
4. "We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." --Clifford Stoll, astronomer and author
5. "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." --T. Craven, FCC Commissioner (said in 1961)
6.  "Apple is already dead." --Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft
7.  "I'd shut [Apple] down and give the money back to the shareholders." --Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell
8.  "There's just not that many videos I want to watch." --Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube
9.  "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
10. "We are on a tear to be the undisputed winner in China." --Meg Whitman, former CEO of eBay
11. "Television won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." --Daryl Zanuck, film producer, co-founder of 20th Century Fox
12.  "We will never make a 32-bit operating system." --Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft 

From the fine folks at Information Week (article & slideshow)