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"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little time dreaming.” Lee de Forest, inventor of radio amplifier tubes, 1926.
$750B, TV revenue, 2018.
$750B, TV revenue, 2018.
“I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning… So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the aeronautical Society.” Wm. Thompson, Lord Kelvin, 1896.
751.6 Billion airline passenger miles flown in 2017 alone.
751.6 Billion airline passenger miles flown in 2017 alone.
“We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.” Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888.
“In this field [physics] almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes.” Philipp von Jolly, physicist, 1874
