9.) "The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty—a fad." – -The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903
10.) “When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” – Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson
11.) A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” — New York Times, 1936
12.) "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free." – King William I of Prussia, on trains, 1864
13.) "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will." – Albert Einstein, 1932
14.) "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." – -Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a talk given to a 1977 World Future Society meeting in Boston
15.) "If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one." – -W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954
16.) "No, it will make war impossible." – -Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, in response to the question "Will this gun not make war more terrible?" from Havelock Ellis, an English scientist, 1893
17.) "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
18.) "There will never be a bigger plane built." – - A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.
19.) "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." – Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles, 1962
20.) "How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.” — Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s
21.) "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
22.) "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.” — HG Wells, British novelist, in 1901
23.) "It'll be gone by June." – Variety Magazine on Rock n' Roll, 1955
24.) "And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam" – -Newsweek, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.
25.) "Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure." – -Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880
26) There are jobs Americans won’t do. - Free Traitors™ and globalists early 21 century
27)Those (manufacturing) jobs are never coming back. - Free Traitors™ and globalists early 21 century
"We can even imagine what new machinery for handling information may some day become: a small pocket instrument that we carry around with us, talking to it whenever we need to, and either storing information in it or receiving information from it."
At least SOME people got it right!
B Gates
Bump for later!
In 1987 I saw a memo from an NBC employee to his boss that noted: Cosby is putting together another TV show that looks like it won’t last long. So the Brooklyn sound stage will be available for use in the fall.
That show was The Cosby show which went on a 8 plus year run and was filmed at NBC’s Brooklyn studio that remained unavailble. This memo was part of some litigation about a failed studio in Manhattan which had alrady been booked for shows creating as shortage NY of studio space in 1980.
"It's pretty d****d hot in here!" Stephen Jay Gould, May 22, 2002
"You can say that again!" Carl Sagan
"I've made a horrible assumption." Stephen William Hawking, 2052
“1.) “The idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.”
This reminds me of the Polish cavalry bravely going up against Hiter’s tanks where they must have taken that notion seriously.
Why the Polish never modernized is way beyond me.
And to every war that was fought in the western world...
We will be home by Christmas.
Gen. Grant, in his biography, said that the first time he rode a train, it rocketed along at 25 mph and he thought "we have annihilated space".
“The market for color printers will be limited to the administrative offices of a few of the Fortune 500 CEOs for the sole purpose of preparing color handouts for board meetings”
- Kodak Management (circa 1995)
Add Paul Ehrlich’s murderous prediction that we’d all starve due to overpopulation by the 1980s