The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

From Bill Gates and Steve Chen to Robert Metcalfe, Ken Olsen and Nathan Myhrvold, even smart people get big things wrong.
Nov. 12, 2014

Sources:

Jack Shaw

Eric Chaline, History's Worst Predictions an the People Who Made Them, Hove, England: The History Press, 2011.

http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_Predictions

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