Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions

[Norgy]

Great collection of largely apocryphal statements. 

How do you know is apocalyptical?
Where you there when Haig was inspecting the tanks?

grumbler was present during the Gettysburg Address and while a mere toddler, watched the battle of Thermopalye from a distance. True story.

[Siege]

Great collection of largely apocryphal statements. 

How do you know is apocalyptical?
Where you there when Haig was inspecting the tanks?

grumbler was present during the Gettysburg Address and while a mere toddler, watched the battle of Thermopalye from a distance. True story.

You sure about this?
I heard from a solid source that he watched the battle from the command deck of his trirreme. He could not have been a todler.

[Ed Anger]

He was assisting the famous Athenian Admiral, Sanstesticles.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Yep. Telling him what he was doing wrong. grumbles knew thee guy since childhood and felt he needed direction.

[Warspite]

Predictions are very difficult, especially about the future.

[alfred russel]

31. "The good natured and gracious add on features to the grumbler bot will be a resounding success."

[The Brain]

10. "Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years." -– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955.

In civilized countries they are and have been for decades.

[Norgy]

So, not available in Sweden, then? I am asking because I am going to buy my tobacco and stuff in your little Nazi cuntry. Sverigedemokrater 12 prosent, fy fan.

[The Brain]

So, not available in Sweden, then? I am asking because I am going to buy my tobacco and stuff in your little Nazi cuntry. Sverigedemokrater 12 prosent, fy fan.

Lots of vacuum cleaners in Sweden are nuclear powered.

[grumbler]

31. "The good natured and gracious add on features to the grumbler bot will be a resounding success."

[dps]

24. “Home Taping Is Killing Music” — A 1980s campaign by the BPI, claiming that people recording music off the radio onto cassette would destroy the music industry.

Not sure this one belongs on the list.

Like a lot of them, it's more about the commercial implications of technologies, not the technologies themselves. 

[Norgy]

Tell THAT to your fellow 300 Spartans and they won't believe you.