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The Experts Speak Date: Sent Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Category: None

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Electric Light - "good enough for our transatlantic friends, but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men" British Parliment report on Edison's work, 1878.

The Telephone - "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" Pres. Rutherford Hayes, 1876

Television - "People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." Darryl F. Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946.

Computers - "There is no reason for any individual to have computer in their home." Ken Olson, Pres. of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Aviation - "The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers...it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary." Harvard astronomer Wm. Henry Pickering, 1908.

Nuclear energy - "Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years." vacuum cleaner manufacturer, Alex Lewyt, 1955.

Medicine - "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". leading British surgeon Sir John Erichsen, 1837.

Received from Jan Hughey.