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#4342146 - 03/05/17 11:54 AM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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'A Reich that will last a 1,000 years!'
You got that one rather wrong Adolph
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#4342150 - 03/05/17 12:36 PM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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That being said, I think that Admiral Grace Hopper was worth listening to. She was both cautious making predictions, but bold where she did, and usually was right about it. Also, she always carried a piece of cable with her to explain to people around her what a microsecond was. A nanosecond, I expect. A microsecond is quite a lot of cable ...and a millisecond is transatlantic sort of range. "Nanosecond per foot" is a standard mnemonic.
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#4342151 - 03/05/17 12:38 PM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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And w.r.t. horse and cars, there is a similar quote from Kaiser Wilhelm II. 1912: "I believe in horses, the automobile hype will pass."
I'm pretty certain that neither Wilhelm nor his translator used the word "hype".
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#4342239 - 03/05/17 10:10 PM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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Thanks for clearing that up FourSpeed. The correct quote does indeed exonerate Bill Gates of any buffoonery.  He was obviously referring to what the needs of the consumer market would be for that time. All was good until Falcon 3.0 and Quarterdeck EMM came along. Ordering your config.sys and autoexec.bat files to free up enough space under the 640k cap was an art.
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“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” -Milton Friedman
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#4342313 - 03/06/17 12:06 PM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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I don't think even sci-fi authors considered that mankind would simply just shut down the space projects.
"They might look the same, but they don't taste the same."
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#4342354 - 03/06/17 04:19 PM
Re: 15 Worst Tech Predictions Of All Time
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I don't think even sci-fi authors considered that mankind would simply just shut down the space projects. They mistakenly believed historical precedent would apply--once humans reach a new frontier, they embrace it and never retreat. Until space. The Jedi Master
The anteater is wearing the bagel because he's a reindeer princess. -- my 4 yr old daughter
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by RedOneAlpha. 04/18/24 05:46 PM
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