See The Future

02/17/04

Home

 

 

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

Home

This site was last updated 02/17/04