John Thomson, Director of Software Engineering GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has written a very interesting article.
It may well be that the story of Bill Gates claiming that “640K is enough memory for anyone” is apocryphal. IBM’s Thomas Watson may not have said in 1943, as was widely claimed, that he estimated the total worldwide market for computers to be no more than five. Ken Olson however, the founder of DEC, certainly offered a hostage to fortune when he told a convention of the World Future Society in 1977 that “there is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home” – even if his remark has been taken out of context. The point is that hindsight – especially in the world of technology – is a very wonderful thing, not to mention a very precise science. History has a way of making us look stupid.
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