PREDICTION/PROPHECY
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march
of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and
talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data
processing is a fad that won't last out the year.
-- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice
Hall, 1957
Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high
plateau.
-- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1929.