Go west schreef :
Maar je moet nooit nooit zeggen.
In een vorig leven gaf ik regelmatig presentaties over strategie.
Een leuke start was altijd een lijstje foute voorspellingen door deskundigen.
Dit is een selectie uit mijn Powerpointslides:
“When the World Fair in Paris will have ended, the electrical light will disappear also and no one will ever here about it again” Prof. Wilson, Oxford University, 1875
"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication; no value to us ” Western Union Telegraph, internal memo, 1876, when offered the patent to the telephone
"Everything that can be invented has been invented” Charles Duell, Head of US Patent Office, 1899
“The automobile is at the end of it’s development; this is clear from the fact that no single fundamental improvement has been invented during the last year” Scientific American, 1909
“Airplanes are interesting toys, but have no military use at all” Marshall Foch, 1911
"The talking motion picture will not supplant the regular silent motion picture; there is such a tremendous investment to pantomime picture that it would be absurd to disturb it” T.A. Edison, 1913
“The wireless music box, the radio, has no commercial use. Who wants to pay for a message that is addressed to nobody specifically?” David Sarnof, speaking to investors, 1923
“Although television is probably theoretically and technically possible, I regard it commercially and financially impossible” Lee de Forrest, US radio pioneer, NY Times, 1926
“ Television will never be a serious competitor to radio because people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it” New York Times, 1939 World Fair
“ I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” Thomas Watson Sr, IBM, 1943
“ I don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out anyway” Decca Records executive, not signing the Beatles, 1962
"Mr. Speliotis, you’re fired” IBM manager to Harddisk-developer, because magnetic media is supposedly dead, 1968
"There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home” Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipent Company, 1977
“ Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible” S. Newcomb, 19th century mathematician
"But what is is good for?” engineer at IBM, commenting on the new microchip, 1968
"There will never be a mass market for motor cars because there is a limit to the number of chauffeurs available” Gottlieb Daimler
“Whatever will happen, the American Navy will not be unpleasantly surprised”
USA Minister of Navy, 3 days before Pearl Harbour
“When will Apple announce a phone? Probably never” Technology journalist David Pogue, 2006
“The ever-growing sale of houses will always make prices rise,whatever scientists and analysts will say” Housing Market economist David Lereah, 2007
“Our understanding of the universe is almost complete, except for some minor details” Physicist Lord Kelvin, 1900
“Who would want a computer without a keyboard? Nobody.” Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, 2007, when iPhone was announced