10. Lord Kelvin, president of the UK’s Royal Society, 1883:
X-rays will be prove to be a hoax.
Spam will be solved.
8. Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer of the British Post Office, 1878:
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messengers boy.
Nobody would ever need more than 640 kilobytes of memory on their personal computer.
We need stand on the threshold of rocket mail.
There will be never a bigger plane built.
TV won’t last because people will “soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.
No need for a computer at home.
Next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.