Sometimes it's hard to visualize the future and the opportunities that
are presented when a new technology enters our lives. You'll be
shocked at the following quotes from some of the brightest, most
educated people in recent history.
"Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over
wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no
practical value."
Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865
"I think I may say without contradiction that when the Paris
Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it, and no more will
be heard of it."
-- Erasmus Wilson, Professor at Oxford University, 1878
"There will never be a mass market for motor cars - about 1,000 in
Europe - because that is the limit on the number of chauffeurs
available!"
-- Spokesman for Daimler Benz
"The average American family hasn't time for television."
-- The New York Times, 1939
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
-- Thomas Watson, Chairman, IBM, 1949
"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific
advances."
-- Dr. Lee De Forest (inventor of the vacuum tube), 1957
"The potential world market for copying machines is 5000 at most."
-- IBM to the founders of Xerox, 1959
I don't think I can WORK FROM HOME.?
--You, today