“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?”
— Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter’s call for investment in the radio in 1921.
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Making fun of people for not predicting the future is a bit mean. Maybe ten years from now we’ll use our toilets to read people’s minds, or some other insane new setup. You won’t have been an idiot for failing to predict it.