"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
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"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
(Western Union internal memo, 1876)
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"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
(Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)
I'm afraid to say, I totally agree with this:
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
Posted by: BiggyDonk | April 04, 2006 at 08:36 AM
Oh, Please!
Talk about not learning from history :-O
Posted by: Proteus@home.se | April 04, 2006 at 09:01 AM
...in fact this is already happening...
Remote storage, blade technology, virtualisation... = utility.
Get with the programme Proteus...
Posted by: BiggyDonk | April 04, 2006 at 09:09 AM
There we gooooo!
Posted by: Nadja | April 05, 2006 at 04:05 PM