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Berlum

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Mon Dec 31, 2012, 07:00 PM Dec 2012

Top 10 FAILED predictions [View all]

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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