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Andre Leibovici

My Top 12 Predictions for 2015 and Few Shockingly Bad Predictions

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 Last week I published on Twitter some of my enterprise datacenter predictions for 2015. While predictions are easy to be made up because they do not hold anyone accountable, I personally believe my top 12 will hold true for 2015. Here they are:

 

 

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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

 

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"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876

 

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"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

 

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"There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." -- Albert Einstein, 1932.

 

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"There will never be a bigger plane built." -- A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.

 

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"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." -- Lee DeForest, inventor.

 

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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

 

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"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

 

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"Everyone's always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, 'Probably never.'"—David Pogue, The New York Times, 2006

 

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"World Economic Forum, 2004: "Two years from now, spam will be solved."—Bill Gates

 

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"Apple [is] a chaotic mess without a strategic vision and certainly no future."—TIME, February 5, 1996

 

Screen Shot 2015-01-02 at 3.54.32 PM"Remote shopping, while interlay feasible, will flop."—Time magazine, 1968.

 

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net.

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