Before computers were even invented, had to fight other communication media against pessimistic predictions of respected contemporaries. In 1899, the chairman of the U.S. patent office even said “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” The story was right after all the new inventions, and so were able to enforce many ingenious technologies today, and some of them were no longer essential to our lives . Some inventions might have been intended, of course, better save.

“The invention has so many shortcomings that it is not good for seriously as a communication tool. The thing has no value for us. “(Memo to Western Union Financial Services to the invention of the telephone, 1876)

“The radio has absolutely no future.” (Lord Kelvon, mathematician and inventor, 1897)

“The global demand for vehicles will not exceed one million – if only for lack of available chauffeurs.” (Gottlieb Daimler, inventor, 1901)

“Man, it will create in the next 50 years, unable to stand up with a metal airplane in the air.” (Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, 1901)

“I’m sorry, but I can not imagine the best of intentions, which submarines could bring the war – except that their crews to suspend the suffocation.” (HG Wells, writer, 1901)

“The horse will always exist, automobiles, however, only a passing fad.” (The President of Michigan Savings Bank, 1903)

“Airplanes are interesting, but have no military value.” (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist, 1911)

“On television, we should not waste any dreams, because it is not easy to finance.” (Lee De Forest, Father of Radio, 1926)

“There is not the slightest indication that we will ever be able to develop nuclear energy.” (Albert Einstein, 1932)

“The TV will not prevail in the market. People will very soon be tired every night, staring at a plywood box. “(Darryl Fl. Zanuck, head of film company 20th Century Fox, 1946)

“It will take generations before man landed on the moon.” (Sir Harold Spencer, an astronomer, 1957)

“We are 60 years lived without television, and it will do more 60 years.” (Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, 1960)