Bizarre Predictions

[Rhonda]

+----------------- Bizarre Predictions -------------------+

"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are
impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." - English
scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1899

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio
Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of
Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that every-
one in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.
- Time Magazine, 1966

"An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the
serious job of postal transportation." - Second Assistant
U.S. Postmaster General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922

"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."
- Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on miniskirts, 1966

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H.M. Warner,
Warner Brothers, 1927

"You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Concert
manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out." - Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to
anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895

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[aka]

Thanks for sharing this Rhonda, it is a great post, It just goes to show how much, people can get it wrong, because their minds are trapped within their own little worlds.

Although Kelvin contributed to the scientific world he was one very narrow minded person, trapped within his religious beliefs.

It reminds me also of...... "they said...."they say".....I often wonder who "they" are and where all their mis-information comes from.

[Rhonda]

I am unsure about these ones but know from researching at a historical museum that alot of things varied ..while reading old journals and diaries.

I think alot depended on who the author of the book was and their personality or just how they interpreted what was written, in these recordings of other people and their way of putting things.

Of course once they wrote the book and it sold well that seemed to be considered the accepted norm of how things happened.

"they "could be whoever's records or opinions of how things went down.

I must say also the "we:" thing was the one that got me
at meeting s always "we " were going to do this--there was assignement ever made in those cases so nobody knew WE were suppose to do it.

Interesting how things transpire , isn't it?
~Rhonda

[aka]

Interesting indeed Rhonda.

Your mention of "WE", brought a very large smile to my dial.

It reminds me of my wife, who is always saying, we with have to do this or that.

I think of what this really means...........

For example, when she says "WE' will have to paint the outside of the house soon.

It really means..... I had better get off my butt and get painting, if I know what's good for me.

Yes life sure can be an interesting pastime. ;D ;D