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Other posters have already mentioned the urban legend that this comprises.. but on a slight rant, I hate it when this anecdote gets rolled out because this is t
by artmageddon 15y ago
Other posters have already mentioned the urban legend that this comprises.. but on a slight rant, I hate it when this anecdote gets rolled out because this is the sort of short-sighted thinking that gets interesting research canned.
One person felt long ago(can't find the exact quote) that there was once a world market for maybe five computers, and others thought that lasers and x-rays would be nothing more than a sham.
To put it another way: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2088#comic http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2088#c...
- InclinedPlane 15y agoFor a considerable time the laser was considered a solution in search of a problem. Now, of course, they have a huge number of vital uses and nearly everyone in the developed world owns several in one form or another. For that matter it took a long time for computers to have an impact on productivity. For a while people wondered whether personal computers actually made business sense. Now, in the era of mass global computerized communications the advantages are hard to ignore.