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Una piccola raccolta di perle di lungimiranza, con relativa fonte (almeno per le più recenti)!
Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft, parlando di Iphone nel 2007: [quote]Now we’ll get a chance to go through this again in phones and music players. There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It’s a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I’d prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get.[/quote]
Fonte: http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2007-04-29-ballmer-ceo-forum-usat_N.htm
Clifford Stoll, scrittore, sul futuro di Internet nel 1995: [quote]The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works[/quote]
Fonte: http://www.newsweek.com/id/106554
Erik Sandberg-Diment, fondatore della rivista ROM, nel 1985: [quote]For the most part, the portable computer is a dream machine for the few … On the whole, people don’t want to lug a computer with them to the beach or on a train to while away hours they would rather spend reading the sports or business section of the newspaper.
Somehow, the microcomputer industry has assumed that everyone would love to have a keyboard grafted on as an extension of their fingers. It just is not so … Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can’t imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing[/quote]
(qui manca il link, è un’intervista al NYT del dicembre 1985)
Ignoto sulla televisione, 1939: [quote]TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it.[/quote]
Fonte: NYT del 1939
Capi della RCA a proposito della radio: [quote]The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?[/quote]
Sir John Eric Ericksen, chirurgo inglese, 1873: [quote]The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon[/quote]
Niente male, eh?
P.S. Prima che qualcuno la citi: quella di Bill Gates e dei 640 kb di memoria non è vera! ;-)
