Gordon Crovitz: Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk - WSJ.com

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Gordon Crovitz: Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk - WSJ.com:

"'Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments,' said Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus in 10 A.D. This end-of-progress view has been echoed many times, including by Charles Duell, commissioner for the U.S. Patent Office, who in 1899 said, 'Everything that can be invented has already been invented.'

It's worth recalling, especially in a gloomy year like the one drawing to an end, that the opposite is true: The more we invent, the more we invent. Knowledge grows on itself.

So here are the rest of my Top 10 Worst Technology Predictions, which prove that when it comes to tech, optimism pays:"