A L O H A !
That's ME!
“X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
Lord Kelvin,
British physicist 1899
“Printed books
will never be the equivalent
of handwritten codices,
especially since printed books
are often deficient in spelling
and appearance.”
Johannes Trithemius,
German abbot and scholar
“In Praise of Scribes”
1492
" 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
and weighs 30 tons,
computers in the future
may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes
and weigh only 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics
1949
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What do the experts know?
My laptop
weighs in at only
One Ton
and uses only
Three Vacuum Tubes!
These days,
I seem to be learning
all the things
that I have been
wrong
about.
Once past the
embarrassment
it's actually been
liberating.
What have
Y O U
been wrong about?
Thanks for visiting today
Warmly, cloudia