04-17-2007, 11:20 AM
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Often Thinks About Pickles
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Okotoks
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Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future
http://www.2spare.com/item_50221.aspx
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«There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.»
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977.
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«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.
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«Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.» -– Alex Lewyt, president of vacuum cleaner company Lewyt Corp., in the New York Times in 1955
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