Top Ten Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time

cogged from Reader's Digest

10. "X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

-Lord Kelvin, president of the UK's Royal Soiciety, 1883

9. "Spam will be solved."

-Bill Gates, 2004

8. "The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys."

- Sir William Preece, chief engineer of the British Post Office, 1878

7. "Nobody would ever need more than 640 kb of memory on their personal computer."

-Bill Gates, 1981, allegedly

6. "We stand on the threshhold of rocket mail." (Brings me images of Wile E. Coyote delivering mail for some reason)

-US postmaster general Arthur Summerfield, 1969

5. "There will never be a bigger plane built."

-Boeing engineer, 1933, after the maiden flight of a ten-seater Boeing 247

4. TV won't last because people will "soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

-Darryl Zanuck, 1946

3. "Nuclear powered vaccum cleaners will probably be a reality in ten years."

-Alex Lewyt, president of the Lewyt Corp vacuum company, 1955

2. "No need for a computer at home."

-Ken Olsen, founder of Digital equipment, 1977

and the winner is

1. "Next Christmas the iPod will be dead. finished, gone, kaput."

-Sir Alan Sugar, 2005