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Along those lines from a US News article:
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
-Sir William Preece, chief engineer of Britain’s General Post Office, 1876.
“I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbook.”
-Thomas Edison, 1922.
“I think there is a world market for about five computers.”
-Thomas Watson Sr., founder of IBM, 1943.
“Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.”
-Popular Mechanics, 1949.
“We have a computer here in Cambridge; there is one in Manchester and one at the [National Physical Laboratory]. I suppose there ought to be one in Scotland, but that’s about all.”
-British physicist Douglas Hartree, 1951.
I assume cfmdobbie is referring to this:
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