7 Ultimate Tech Prediction Failures
Bangalore:Many world renowned engineers and entrepreneurs go out of the box to make predictions, sometimes frantically and often in the fit of excitement. A lot of it came true but few prophecies got busted badly.
Here are 7 tech predictions which never took shape and rather failed badly.
Year 1977
A large number of enterprises had started replacing registers and files with computers but the use of computers for personal means was being thought over.
Prediction
Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital Equipments predicted, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Present Scenario
China alone has more than 450 million PC users and the total number of users in the world is expected to cross 2 billion by the end of 2012.
