Упр.24 Unit 3 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
Read the quotations and comment on them. What do they all have in common?
“I think there’s a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, the Chairman of IBM, 1943“But what… is it good for?”
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”
David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings
All these quotations have one thing in common: they are examples of bad predictions. People who said them did not believe in new inventions, but later these inventions became very important and successful.
They show that it is easy to make mistakes when you try to predict the future, especially in science and technology. New ideas often seem useless at first, but then they change our lives.
