What's Ahead?
If we consider what people thought years ago about life in the future, we realize how hard it is to know what’s ahead. For instance, what if everyone had believed the patent office worker who, in 1899, said, “Everything that can be invented has been invented”? Or what if folks in the 19th-century had believed this memo from Western Union: “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication”?
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