The Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

Nov. 12, 2014

From Bill Gates and Steve Chen to Robert Metcalfe, Ken Olsen and Nathan Myhrvold, even smart people get big things wrong.

Patricia Panchak and Jack Shaw

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Jack Shaw

Eric Chaline, History's Worst Predictions an the People Who Made Them, Hove, England: The History Press, 2011.

http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Worst_Predictions

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