Everyone likes to think they are smart. We have all we consider geniuses in our own right, and you could very well be one. As much as people like to be considered geniuses, however, we also hate to be called when we are wrong. The ego can not really take that shot.
Do not feel bad about it, though, because some of the greatest minds the world has made bold predictions about the future that have proven to be totally false.
1. "How, sir, could you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under the bridge? Please, excuse me, I have no time to listen to such nonsense. "- Napoleon Bonaparte
Flickr / Dennis Jarvis
2. "flying machines are impossible." - Lord Kelvin
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3. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value." - Associates of David Sarnoff when he suggested to invest in radio in 1921
Flickr / Joe Haupt
4. "film is a little more than a fad." - Charlie Chaplin
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5. "There is virtually no chance that space satellites communication will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States. " - FCC Commissioner T. Craven
Flickr / Greg Goebel
6. "When the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard." - Professor of Oxford Erasmus Wilson
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7. "Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever." - Thomas Edison
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8. "We will never make a 32-bit operating system." - Bill Gates
Flickr / Mohammad Jangda
9. "There will never be a bigger plane built." - a Boeing engineer, after the construction of an aircraft which held 10 people
Flickr / Bernal Saborio
10. "There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable." - Albert Einstein
Flickr / Amador Loureiro
11. "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. "- HG Wells
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12. "nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within 10 years." - Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum cleaner company
Flickr / Jessica Spengler
13. "the Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not." - Sir William Preece
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14. "There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corp
Flickr / Kevin Ballard
15. "the energy produced by the decomposition of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. "- Ernest Rutherford
Flickr / Cezary Borysiuk
16. "A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere." - the New York Times 1936
Flickr / Steve Jurvetson
(via Fooyoh)
See? you should not feel bad if you were wrong about everything you wrong. These geniuses were wrong about things too! We're all idiots at some points, so do not worry.
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