Yet another example of Amara's law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara (sometimes also attributed to Arthur C. Clarke

Yet another example of Amara's law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara (sometimes also attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in the form "When it comes to technology, most people overestimate the impact in the short term and underestimate it in the long term").