The Journal of Unlikely Science


	The Journal of Unlikely Science
Socratoad
6-20-2008 7:49 AM
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson ., IBM Chairman, 1943

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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		<H1><A href="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk">Null Hypothesis - The Journal of Unlikely Science</A></H1>
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">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. 
</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2">Radio has no future.
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            <DIV align="right"><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT size="2">- <FONT size="2">Lord Kelvin</FONT></FONT></FONT>, </FONT></EM></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT size="2"><EM><FONT size="1"><FONT size="2">British mathematician and physicist</FONT>.</FONT></EM></FONT></FONT></FONT>
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            <FONT face="Arial" size="2">             </FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2">Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
<DIV align="right"><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM>- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865</EM></FONT>
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            <EM>            </EM></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD colspan="2">Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. 
<DIV align="right"> <FONT color="#0000ff"><EM>- Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
British mathematician and physicist</EM></FONT>
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            </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><TR><TD colspan="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT size="2">There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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            <DIV align="right"><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT size="2">- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977</FONT></FONT></EM></FONT>
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            </TD></TR></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/strange-but-true/item/invention_failure_never_work_disaster"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><TR><TD colspan="2"><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><FONT size="2">This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. 
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            <DIV align="right"><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><FONT size="2"><EM>- Western Union internal memo, 1878</EM></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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