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You're not going to have a calculator with you at all times. (exploding-heads.com)
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Every math teacher everywhere in the 70's. Suck it Mrs. Krenchmeyer, I can look up that 13 + 11 = 21 anytime on my phone!

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You will not get covid if you get a vaccine (twitter.com)
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"Joseph Biden"

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The earth will be gone in five years if we don't stop using fossil fuel (sh.itjust.works)
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Gretta Turdberg

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“Two years from now, spam will be solved.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004

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“Apple is already dead.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“Apple is already dead.”

Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

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The Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

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“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.”

Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955

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“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”

Darryl Zanuck, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946

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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” (exploding-heads.com)
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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

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ECB official labels crypto as ‘deleterious’ with ‘no societal benefits’ in scathing speech (cointelegraph.com)
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“security, scalability and decentralisation” of crypto transactions was “not achievable,”