Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

To be fair, just about everyone in the computer business thought that was in its death throes when Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold made this comment back in 1997.

Who could have predicted that, a little more than a decade later, that same company would be steadily increasing its share of the PC market while utterly dominating the digital music business and rapidly overtaking the field in the smart phone market?

Foolish Tech Predition 7

"Two years from now, spam will be solved."