The 21 Biggest Technology Flops

ComputerWorld has an interesting article titled “Don’t Believe the Hype: The 21 Biggest Technology Flops”. As explained on the website the technologies listed are not necessarily bad, but they were either ahead of their times or overblown by high expectations. Here is the list:

  1. Apple Newton
  2. Digital audio tape
  3. DIVX
  4. Dot-bombs
  5. E-books
  6. IBM PCjr
  7. Internet currency
  8. Iridium
  9. Microsoft Bob
  10. The Net PC
  11. The paperless office
  12. Push technology
  13. Smart appliances
  14. Virtual reality
  15. Apple Lisa
  16. Dreamcast
  17. NeXT
  18. OS/2
  19. Qube
  20. Speech recognition
  21. WebTV

Check the story for a description of each technology. You can also vote to declare the biggest flop!

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Daniel Scocco on April 14th, 2007 | Filed Under Technology

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3 Comments so far

  1. Joe Gats April 15th, 2007

    My dad bought me a pcjr when I was a kid. “Ok,” he said. “Now I want you to do all your home work here now.” There was no printer, no hard drive, and only one peice of software. Prince or Persa. Most expensive video game system ever!

  2. Daniel April 16th, 2007

    Joe, hehe that is why it got nominated I guess. I never had one, but I can imagine how bad it sucks… thanks for commenting.

  3. R Bruce April 16th, 2007

    #11, paperless office. This was probably labeled a flop due to “some” companies not taking advantage of it. Many govt agencies have gone paperless, Many of the biggest companies in the US have implemented a document management system.The companies that have taken advantage of this technology are leaps and bounds ahead of what used to be their competition. They are seeing paperbased companies in their rearview mirror only.

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