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The technology specialists often predict the future of the technology, but their prediction sometimes wrong, and even impressed as nothing than ‘nonsense’. Here are some of biggest mistakes on technology prediction.

In February 2005, Sir Alain Sugar predicted that iPod will vanish in a year, that time he did not know that his prediction will be wrong 174 million times.

Sir Alain Sugar said ‘next Christmas iPod will run out, destroyed, and disappeared’, he said. Since then, this music player has become one of the gadgets with all-time highest sales with sales reaching 174 million units.

Bill Gates is also twice into the list of 10 wrongest prediction. The first came in 1981 when he said the computer will never need more than 640KB memory – many memory at this time are 2GB, 3500 times slip from his estimation.

If that is not bad enough, in 2004, Gates prediction declined again when he said to world economic forum that spam will be overcame only in two years.

And here we go the complete mistake predictions:

1. British citizens no need telephone

Sir William Preece predicted in 1878 who at that time he’s the chief engineer at the post office. ‘The United States needs a phone, we don’t. We have a lot of message sender,’ he said.

2. X-Ray is a hoax

Lord Kevlin, President of Royal Society in a comment in the year 1883 said that the X-Ray is solely spoof.

3. There will be no more bigger aircraft

There will be no more aircraft larger than this – and that time Boeing 247 in 1933 for the first time fly with capacity only for ten passengers. Interviewed after the flight, the Boeing engineer says: ‘There will be no more larger aircraft. ”

The largest aircraft today is Airbus A380, can load 853 passengers.

4. The TV will not survive long

Darryl Zanuck the founder of 20th Century Fox comment in 1946, claims that the television technology has a short life, because the audience will be bored staring at a wooden box every night.

5. House will use nuclear-powered Vacuum Cleaner

In 1950, Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt Corp company, a vacuum cleaner manufacturer claims that soon we will see peoples to uses nuclear energy for household applications. ‘Vacuum cleaner equipped with nuclear will be a reality within ten years,’ he said.

6. Mail will be delivered with rocket

‘We are on the doorstep of rocket mail,’ said the United States post office’s general, Arthur Summerfield in 1959.

7. Computers not for in-house usage

In 1977, Ken Olsen, president, founder and commissioners of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) claim that there is no reason people want to use a PC.

8. You will not need memory more than 640KB

Bill Gates in 1981 said that the computer does not need that big capacity. Since then he refuse that he ever made this statement.

9. We will destroy spam in two years

Gates made this statement in 2004 on the World Economic Forum, claimed that the solution is already in front of the eye.

10. iPod will be disappear in next Christmas

And a complete list of 10 biggest mistakes is predicted by Sir Alain Sugar who said in 2005, interviewed ‘Christmas next year, iPod will vanish, dissapear, destroyed’.