2005 – Alan Sugar – “Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput”
It’s so much better when someone wholly unlikable gets it wrong isn’t it?
1903 – The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Company – “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is just a novelty – a fad”
Nope. The car has done pretty well for itself as I’m sure you’ve noticed. Although our gas guzzling metal chariots are awful for the environment and public health at large, if we had continued to use horses with our current population density can you even imagine the amount of horse manure there would be? Where would we have put it all? Each horse can produce up to 30 pounds of poop a day… I digress.
1949 – Popular Mechanics magazine – “Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons”
My desk is currently breathing a creaky sigh of relief that that one turned out to be true. So I guess that one isn’t a bad prediction really, he got it spot on.
1955 – Variety Magazine – “Rock n’ Roll? It will be gone by June”
Sorry Variety Magazine, you’re gonna have to put up with those evil beats just a tad longer. I once said a similar thing about boy bands, thankfully I was never printed in a magazine.
1962 – Decca Records executive to the Beatles – “The Beatles have no future in Show-business… Groups are out; four-piece groups with guitars, particularly, are finished”
Wrong and wrong. Four-piece groups with guitars still do OK on Top of the Pops, and I’m fairly sure the Beatles went on to sell quite a few records.
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