31 Of The Worst Predictions
1. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943. 2. “Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.” — Popular Mechanics, 1949 [...]