The Segway comes to mind as something that was disproportionately hyped up compared to its end result. Quoting a TIME magazine article from 2001 [0]: > As big

The Segway comes to mind as something that was disproportionately hyped up compared to its end result. Quoting a TIME magazine article from 2001 [0]: > As big a deal as the PC, said Steve Jobs; maybe bigger than the Internet, said John Doerr, the venture capitalist behind Netscape, Amazon.com and now Ginger. > [Inventor Dean] Kamen's aspirations are even grander than that. He believes the Segway "will be to the car what the car was to the horse and buggy." [0] http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,00.html http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,186660,...