The danger in predictions

The president of AIIM International, John Mancini, qualified his statements about the future of document management by quoting these these classic clangers.

That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?

US President Rutherford B. Hayes, after participating in telephone demonstration, 1876

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

US Patent Commissioner, 1899

1930 will be a splendid employment year.

US Department of Labor, 1929

No matter what happens, the US Navy is not going to be caught napping.

US Secretary of Navy, three days before Pearl Harbor