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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTop 10 FAILED predictions
1. We dont 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/
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)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?
dimbear
(6,271 posts)Even that's not so very clear.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)It was Philo T. Farnsworth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo_Farnsworth
tjwash
(8,219 posts)That jagoff gives me indigestion.