[ladyjane]

Was it Gates who said that? I thought it was Ken Olson of DEC who said something similar to that. John Watson of IBM said there was a world market for only 5 computers. Of course Lewyt of vacuum cleaner fame predicted that by 1960 everybody would have nuclear powered vacuum cleaners.

[jimtorr]

All these guys and more have made dumb predictions. They were all looking at their present market and thinking it would never change.

To be fair to Watson of IBM, though, he was talking about the near term market, and the year was in the mid 1940's, I believe.