Here are some predictions of the future. All from people who could be trusted: "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949 "While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility." Lee DeForest, inventor. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Decca Recording Co. ...
... potential drillers responded to Edwin L. Drake in 1859. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project. "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the ... we need God more than ever before. 1. Rick Marin, "Jerry Seins Off," Newsweek, January 12, 1998, p. 56. 2. Edith Schaeffer in The Greatest Lesson I've Ever Learned, Vonette Zachary Bright, ed. (San Bernardino, CA.: Here's Life Publishers, 1990), ...
