Ramalan Orang Terdahulu Yang Salah Tentang Masa Kini

kalau korang hidup pada zaman mak bapak kite kecik dulu, ape yang korang ramal tentang masa depan? apa yang nenek2, atok2 kita ramalkan tentang masa kini? zaman dulu dah banyak orang buat ramalan apa yang akan berlaku pada masa kini.. bukan lah ramalan nombor ekor atau ramalan cuaca.. tapi kali ni aku nak tunjuk ramalan2 salah yang terkenal pada masa dulu…

 

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

 

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

-- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

 

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"

-- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

 

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

 

 

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."

-- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

 

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"

-- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

 

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."

-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

 

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."

-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

 

 

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction".

-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

 

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon".

-- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

 

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

-- Bill Gates, 1981

 

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

-- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

 

Popular Mechanics, 1949
Computers may weight no more than 1.5 tons.

 

kalau orang zaman sekarang dengar balik ape yang dorang ni cakap, mesti korang kate dia sume ni bongok gile kan? haha tapi zaman sekarang pun dah ramai buat andaian macam2 tentang masa depan.. tapi belum tentu tau ramalan semua tu benar terjadi atau tidak.. kita tunggu dan lihat je la..