Technology can be a finicky monster, seemingly going one way before ultimately going another.
And attempting to predict its course with certainty can pretty set you up to look like a fool, many years later.
Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but here's a collection of 10 things said by 10 smart people who just didn't get it right.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."–IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943
"500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine."–Steve Ballmer on the introduction of the first iPhone
"Two years from now, spam will be solved."–Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in 2004
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