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"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/] | "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/] | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan] | |||
** Television wont matter in your lifetime or mine. Rex Lambert, The Listener, 1936 | |||
** Television wont last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. movie producer Darryl Zanuck, 1946 | |||
** Television wont last. Its a flash in the pan. BBC school broadcasting director Mary Somerville, 1948 | |||
* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including: | * '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including: | ||
** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works." | ** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works." | ||