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Being Dead Wrong
Fri, 10/17/2008 - 03:22 — deadprogrammer
I like to think that I have a great intuition and am very good at predicting things. I also sometimes feel that I suffer from the Cassandra syndrome, as people don't listen to my prediction as much as I would like them to. This made me think about the times when I made ridiculously bad predictions. Here's a list of what comes to mind off the bat: 1. When I was young I thought that programmers will soon write a computer program for writing computer programs, and that computer programming as a profession does not have much of a future. 2. I thought that architectural drawings will always have to be done by hand, as you can't print out plans on dot matrix printers (the only printers I've seen at the time). I thought, sure, you can program some straight lines and such, but you'll never get beautiful detailed drawings with all kinds of details. 3. I thought that Handspring would become the dominant player on the handheld market the same way that IBM did: by opening up the peripheral standards. 4. I thought that Diamond Rio would be huuuge and that Diamond Multimedia would become the hottest company ever because they were first on the market with an mp3 player. 5. I thought that Apple would just shrivel up and die, and if not, that I would certainly never completely switch to Macs. Whewww, man. Those are some doozies. How about you, my readers? |
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