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Berlum

(7,044 posts) Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:00 PM Dec 2012

Top 10 FAILED predictions

1. “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

2. “Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.” - Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of the TV

3. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

4. “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates, 1981

.... http://www.forbes.com/sites/brentbeshore/2012/12/31/12-failed-predictions-for-2013-inspiration/

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Top 10 FAILED predictions (Original Post) Berlum Dec 2012 OP

Love this one... LeftofObama Dec 2012 #1

Call me a spoil-sport, but Lee DeForest didn't invent tv. He invented the triode vacuum tube. dimbear Dec 2012 #2

At least I'm not the only one who knows who REALLY invented the TV. RoccoR5955 Dec 2012 #3

11. Steve Forbes will do something useful and not self-serving with the billions he inherited tjwash Dec 2012 #4

LeftofObama

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1. Love this one...

Reply to Berlum (Original post)

Mon Dec 31, 2012, 08:13 PM

Dec 2012

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.” - Western Union Internal Memo, 1876

LOL! Wonder how that one will play out?