Quote from: techstorm2 on February 12, 2014, 12:42:53 PM

Quote from: hamiltino on February 07, 2014, 06:23:47 PM

Shows what education can do to the brain. Makes you unable to think outside of whatever dogma you were taught.

Some of the greatest minds ever have made the same silly mistakes by trying to predict the future.

"No one will need more than 637KB of memory for a personal computer. 640KB ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." --Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp.

"I predict the Internet 0x2026 will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse." --Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, inventor of Ethernet, tech pundit and columnist

"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." --T. Craven, FCC Commissioner (said in 1961)

"There's just not that many videos I want to watch." --Steve Chen, CTO and co-founder of YouTube

"The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys." --Sir William Preece, chief engineer, British Post Office

"Television won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." --Daryl Zanuck, film producer, co-founder of 20th Century Fox

"We will never make a 32-bit operating system." --Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft

Full story - http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/12-worst-tech-predictions-of-all-time/d/d-id/1096169?page_number=12

Even so, people who don't have an academic education tend to be, intuitively speaking more open minded to new ideas. This is just my generalization without looking at any studies on this issue. So I could be wrong.