Train. The Quarterly Review in 1825, published “What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stagecoaches?”

Train. King William I of Prussia, 1864: "No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in one day for free."

Phone. The Western Union considered Bell's invention this way: “The idea is idiotic on the face of it, ignoring the obvious limitations of his device, which is hardly more than a toy. This device is inherently of no use to us."

Lightbulb. A British Parliamentary Committee in 1878 about the lightbulb: “Good enough for our transatlantic friends, but unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men.”

X-rays. Lord Kelvin, 1883."X-rays will prove to be a hoax."

Radio. Lord Kelvin, 1897: "Radio has no future"

Airplane. Simon Newcomb, 1902. "Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible."

Car. Literary Digest, 1899. The ordinary “horseless carriage will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.”

Airplane. Marechal Ferdinand Foch, 1904: “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”

Radio commercials. Associates of David Sarnoff, 1921: "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?"

Television. Lee De Forest, 1926: “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.”

Sound film. Joseph Schenck, 1928: "Talking pictures are a fad."

Cheesburger. The New York Times wrote about cheeseburgers in 1938: "A Californian eccentricity".

Data processing. The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957."I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."

Satellitar communication. T. Craven, FCC Commissioner (USA), in 1961: "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."

Shopping from home. Time magazine, 1966. “Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will flop — because women like to get out of the house, like to handle merchandise, like to be able to change their minds.”

Microchip. An engineer in IBM’s Advanced Computing Systems division, presented with the first microchip in 1968: “But what … is it good for?”

Voicemail. AT&T , 1973: "There is no need for the device."

Laptop. The Times about laptop technology, 1985: "They are heavy, pricey, and had poor battery life, all of which made it hard to imagine them becoming mainstream."

Cryptocurrencies. [So many economists, journalists, politicians]: "It's a scam."





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