Kind of what Penn was saying in the above
History is filled with bold predictions that completely missed the mark:
* At the turn of the 20th century, car makers produced only four million automobiles because the experts believed the world would eventually run out of chauffeurs.
* Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, made the bold pronouncement that radio had no future in 1894.
* Mark Twain refused to invest in Alexander Graham Bell's telephone because he didn't see a use for it.
* Thomas Watson, the President of IBM, once said the future world would need "maybe only five computers."
* And in 1899, the director of the United States patent office told President McKinley that "everything that can be invented has already been invented.
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