7 flawed predictions

1. "It will be years -- not in my time -- before a woman will become Prime Minister." - Margaret Thatcher, 1974.
2. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
3. "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.
4. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
5. "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.
6. "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." - Lee DeForest, inventor of the Cathode Ray Tube.
7. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.