Here are some of my favorites, as per Mr. London's article:
Uh, Mr. President..... |
Reisman Never Saw This Coming... |
Social scientist David Riesman declared, in 1967, "If anything remains more or less unchanged, it will be the role of women."Nowhere Man?! |
Let's Just Stick to Telegrams... |
"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be considered as a means of communication," said the president of Western Union in 1876. "The device is of inherently no value to us."
The president of Michigan Savings Banks advised Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Company because, he said, "The horse is here to stay, the automobile is a novelty."
Like a Pet Rock.... |
Darryl Zanuck observed, in 1946, "Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
BORRRR-INGGGG.... |
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," said Lord Kelvin, president of the British Royal Society and one of the nineteenth century’s greatest experts on thermodynamics.
Na na na na na, Pops! |
"A rocket will never be able to leave the earth’s atmosphere," stated the New York Times in 1936.
Prepare to be Amazed! |
"Space travel is utter bilge," said a British astronomer in 1956.
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom," said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Robert Milliken in 1923.
Trisk, Trisk.... |
The chairman of IBM said, "I think there is a world market for about five computers," in 1943.
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home," said the president of Digital Electronic Corporation in 1977.
In 1929, Yale economist Irving Fisher said, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Two weeks later, the stock market crashed.
How About $Millions? |
or Else Become an Icon.... |
Right, then.... |
"We will bury you," predicted Nikita Kruschev in 1958.
Which one is your favorite?
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