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1 \u201cA rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.” – New York Times, 1936<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 “When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it.” \u2013 Oxford Professor Erasmus Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3 “And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, safaris in Vietnam” –Newsweek, predicting popular holidays for the late 1960s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4 “It’ll be gone by June.” – Variety Magazine on Rock n’ Roll, 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 \u201cThe Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.\u201d \u2013Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6 \u201cThe world potential for copying machines is 5000 at most.\u201d \u2013 IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7 \u201cI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.\u201d \u2013 HG Wells, British novelist, 1901.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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8 \u201cThe idea that cavalry will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.\u201d \u2013 Comment of aide-de-camp to Field Marshall Haig, at tank demonstration, 1916.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9 “How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton’s steamboat, 1800s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10 “There will never be a bigger plane built.” — A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that holds ten people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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11 “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?” — Associates of David Sarnoff responding to the latter’s call for investment in the radio in 1921.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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12 “No, it will make war impossible.” — Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, in response to the question, “Will this gun not make war more terrible?” from Havelock Ellis, an English scientist, 1893.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13 “If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.” -W.C. Heuper, National Cancer Institute, 1954.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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14 “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.” — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), in a talk given to a 1977 World Future Society meeting in Boston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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15 “No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free.” – King William I of Prussia, on trains, 1864.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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16 “Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” — Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17 “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty–a fad.” — The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18 “Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure.” — Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison’s light bulb, 1880.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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19 “X-rays will prove to be a hoax.” — Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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21 “Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.”– Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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22 “Reagan doesn’t have that presidential look.” — United Artists executive after rejecting Reagan as lead in the 1964 film The Best Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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23 “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” – Western Union internal memo, 1876.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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24 “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” — Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles, 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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25 “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”- – Albert Einstein, 1932.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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