Упр.25 Unit 3 2020 ГДЗ Enjoy English 11 класс
Read the quotations and comment on them. What do they all have in common?
“But what… is it good for?”
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates, 1981“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
Western Union internal memo, 1876“I think there’s a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, the Chairman of IBM, 1943“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977“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“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899
All these quotations have one thing in common: they are famous examples of wrong predictions about new inventions and technologies.
The speakers underestimated the future importance of the microchip, the computer, the telephone, the radio and other inventions. Today we know that all of them became extremely useful and changed people’s lives.
So, the main idea is that people often do not understand the value of new ideas at first.
