Let there be balance. Our side of the industrie got some idiots aswell. We rounded up some views on the future, made in the past:

1987: CEO DEC said; I don´t see why everybody needs a computer
1985: CEO IBM said; before 1990 we have a economy based on spare time and offices are paperless
1968: CEO GM said; There is no place in the world market for japanese cars
1945: UN said; in 2000 the world population will be 16 billion people