I think the article is interesting irrespective of the "wrong prediction" aspect. I think it was asking a legitimate question at the time. I was only a kid, but

I think the article is interesting irrespective of the "wrong prediction" aspect. I think it was asking a legitimate question at the time. I was only a kid, but my dad had a computer company and I remember those early laptops he sold. They were interesting, but they were limited in a number of ways. Also, they took some weird turns. Manufacturers didn't want to try to cram standard 5.25" floppy drives (3.5" were not yet standard at that time) into laptops, so they came out with all kinds of weird proprietary drives. And then you had to shell out tons of money for those proprietary disks.