7 Ultimate Tech Prediction Failures


Year 1995

Internet, in year 1995 was in its embryonic stage. Microsoft had launched Internet explorer 1, Netscape announced the release of Java Script and there were no more than a few million users all over the globe.

Prediction

Robert Metcalf the inventor of Ethernet said, “I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."

Present Scenario

More than 32% of the world’s population i.e. 2.2 billion people use internet and the number of users has increased by 528% since year 2000.