"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

[Ice Cream Truck]

http://rinkworks.com/said/predictions.shtml

Was surfing the net for fun and ran into this site, just thought I'd share

[dieselboy]

Re: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.


"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

[GBrushTWood]

Re: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

There's no question that Ken Olson was a buffoon for saying that about desktop computers (in terms of lost opportunity to be a billionaire), but in fairness to him, his idea was that there was no point in having a desktop computer when one could just have a "smart" monitor in their house that connected them to the world via distributed networks.
He may yet be right because I can definitely see inter-connected PDA's becoming more and more intertwined with day to day life in the future.

Even I'm interested in obtaining a BlackBerry that utilizes Google Maps/Google Earth. That would be rad.