Four incorrect predictions about the future of the internet

 Four incorrect predictions about the future of the internet

Today, I would like to look back on 4 mistaken predictions of many different opinions regarding the future of the internet.

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1. Spam mails will be disappeared within the next two years (Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, in 2004)
Bill Gates asserted in 2004 that spam mails would become things of the past because Microsoft made people use spam filters.
Spam filters are partially effective to prevent spam mails but users are still under a lot of spam mails.

2. Internet and online news are not able to replace newspapers. (Newsweek, in 1995)
A security expert, Clifford Stall criticized that the internet were flooded with a lot of incorrect information and he affirmed no online database could replace your daily newspaper.
However we normally read about the news on the Internet nowadays.

3. Internet will collapse. (Robert Metcalfe, a designer of Ethernet, in 1995)
Robert Metcalfe predicted in 1995 that the internet would suffer a "catastrophic collapse" in the following year.
The reality is that Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail are becoming more and more popular around the world.

4. There will be nobody that buys something on the web. (Newsweek, in 1995)
This prediction also came from Clifford Stall. He made various predictions about e-commerce. No secure ways to transfer money on the web and the lack of personal contact between clerks and customers, due to those two reasons; he considered shopping on the web not to be viable.
However, in reality, in a single word, Amazon will be enough to disprove.

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