Famously Wrong Predictions. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.“ -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to.

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Famously Wrong Predictions

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.“ -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859

“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

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” New York Times editorial

"Who the h_ll wants to hear actors talk?" H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

"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

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face not Gary Cooper." -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.

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

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

"But what... is it good for?" -- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip

"So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'“ -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.‘ And they said, 'No.'

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." -- A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service

"640K ought to be enough for anybody.” -- Bill Gates, 1981

"$100 million dollars is way too much to pay for Microsoft." -- IBM, 1982 Annual Revenue, Microsoft (in billions of USD)

So what do YOU say about these predictions for 2030? China will have the world’s biggest economy. English will no longer be the main language for international communication. The price of gold will be over US$5000/ oz. The Arctic Sea will be ice-free most of the year. Cancer will no longer be a leading cause of death. People will still be using Facebook.