The Future of Information Technology

Examples Of Expert Predictions

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- William Thompson Kelvin, physicist

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles Duell (U.S. Patent Office Commissioner), 1989

Man will not fly for fifty years. -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine. -- Lord Rutherford (Nobel Laureate), 1933

The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. -- Admiral William Leahy, circa 1944, commenting on the Manhattan Project

Things To Keep In Mind

Experts' forecasts will always be wrong. -- Clayton Christensen

The future isn't what it used to be. -- Gerrit Jeelof