>> In the 1950's the President of IBM supposedly said there was a market for maybe 5 computers in the world. But in 1965, when there was a viable path to scali

>> In the 1950's the President of IBM supposedly said there was a market for maybe 5 computers in the world. But in 1965, when there was a viable path to scaling the technology, Moore predicted moore's law and personal computers being sold next to cosmetics: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82372000/jpg/_82372637_de9dcc20-dd65-40cb-bf64-d4cad52b5d9f.jpg http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/82372000/jpg... >> whatever will happen next will be a surprise to most people Most people ? sure. But there are enough people to see a coarse vision of the future, or at least reasonable guesses.