Way back in 1981, when IBM first introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit, a certain luminary supposedly uttered this (now famous) statement - "640K ought to be enough for anybody". Bill Gates can however take solace in the fact that in the late 1950s, the then head of IBM, Thomas J Watson, predicted a potential world market for "maybe five computers".
Both these prophecies have been proved wrong. There are hundreds of millions of computers being used the world over. And technology permeates every aspect of our social, family, and business lives.
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