Odd Predictions - Electrical Learning - Lecture Slides, Slides of Learning processes

Electrical Learning is way of learning of this era. It becoming very popular with speed. Main points from this lecture are: Odd Predictions, Career Prediction, Secretarial Work, Blue Book, Modeling Agency, Marilyn Monroe, Future Patents, Hope for Future, Roman Engineer, Julius Sextus Frontius

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Odd Predictions

Career Prediction

  • “You better learn secretarial work or get married because you have no career in show business.” - Director of Blue Book Modeling Agency to Marilyn Monroe in 1944

Movie Prediction

  • “I’m just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who’s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.” - Gary Cooper, after turning down the lead role in “Gone With The Wind.”

Voice Transmittal

  • “Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.” - Boston Post Newspaper in 1865

Telephone Prediction

  • “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communications. The device is inherently of no value to us.” - Western Union in an internal memo in 1876

Graphical User Interface

  • “I see no advantage to the graphical user interface.” - Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, in 1984

Telephone as a Toy

  • “It’s only a toy.”
    • Gardines Green Hubbard, Alexander Graham Bell’s future father in-law, on seeing Bell’s telephone in 1876

Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone

Einstein Prediction

  • “It doesn’t matter what he does, he will never amount to anything.” - Albert Einstein’s teacher to his father in 1895

Radio Prediction

  • “The radio craze will die out in time.” - Thomas Edison in 1922

1920s radio

Computer RAM Size

  • “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” - Bill Gates, Microsoft CEO, in a 1981 speech

Copying Machines

  • “The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most.” - IBM to the founders of Xerox in 1959

Stock Prices

  • “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” - Irvin Fisher, Professor of Economics at Yale University, in 1929

Elvis Career

  • “You ought to go back to driving a truck.” - Concert manager at the Grand Ole Opry while firing Elvis in 1954

Microsoft Value

  • “$100 million is way too much to pay for Microsoft.” - IBM in 1982 when offered an opportunity to purchase Microsoft for $100 million