Sometimes there needs to be some humour. The site Top 87 bad predictions about the future sports quite a lot of quotes of prominent persons who were dead wrong with their predictions. Yet there are two quotes that are relevant to this side and I do think they might be not too wrong - just a little too shortly time framed.
Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927.
Well yes I do believe that some actors should rather shut up and I do think that people will get bored JUST staring at plywood/plastic boxes every night not very much into the future....