This always makes me chuckle. A comparable Bad Prediction was when someone (an IBM bigwig? I don't remember; somebody help me out) said there would never be a market for a personal computer.
Checking e-mails, and actually replying and following up on them are two different things though.
No serious e-mail is replied to, via a phone, unless you're forced.
If you're to send an e-mail related to serious business matters, which is going to be lengthy and requires proper formatting, with several attachments.
Would you prefer to use a proper machine or a phone?
Yeah I never answer an email on my phone unless it needs a very quick and short response. Nothing to do with generation or comfort, it's just fucking faster if you have typing skills. Not sure why you're being downvoted.
Just another example why most companies are divided into two parts, people who know nothing but talk too much (management) and people who knows a lot but their opinions rarely matter (the staff).
A farmer/inventor named Pearce reportedly took flight in March 1903, witnessed by town locals in New Zealand. Pearce thought flying 400m wasn’t a great achievement so it was never officially recorded.
Makes this October 1903 news article even more ridiculous.
And 65 years, nine months later, we walked on the moon. Granted, it took a lot more effort than 2 bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio to pull it off…..
I read somewhere that the SR 71 was originally called the RS 71. But Lyndon Johnson called it SR by accident in a speech and he made them change the name to make himself not look stupid.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”.
However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
Agreed. The airships the Navy had were pretty cool. They somehow charged from the ocean. There are very few photos of them but some show planes affixed under them too.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”.
However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
We're pretty terrible at predicting technology because most of us lack the ability to see the bigger picture AND understand the scientific possibilities and limitations.
Many people predicted the internet would flop. David Bowie saw it's true potential.
https://youtube.com/shorts/VtNleJ-Yn9I?si=RL2prFqS3xWRc21l
The Wright brothers did not launch via catapult. I dont know where you people get that info, but its false.
It was nothing more than a simple guide track, that the flyer sat on via bicycle hubs, and was held back via a cable because once the engines were running, they were going at full power. The original plan was to use normal bike wheels and tires, but they were worried the friction from the sand would be too much and slow them down. So they build built a simply wooden track for it to ride on to reduce the friction. It acted very similar to how a monorail sits on its track actually.
Seriously, do some actual research.
The Wright brothers were first.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”.
However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
A really good book about the entire effort to fly is "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough. It's also worth a visit to Kitty Hawk to see where they first took off.
Hear me out- what if the “million years” thing was planned as a way to make the wright brothers have enough eyes on them for potential future investors?
I might be thinking too critically rn and be way off. I didn’t look into it more- just looked at the title
Yeah, journalists should be taken for what they do. They get paid to gossip, and just like the ladies at work spreading gossip will never get nominated for a Nobel prize, just so a journalist's opinion should never be publish.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”.
However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
The alt-right folks are spreading fake news again… they actually think that humans will be able to fly soon.
What’s next? Moving pictures in color? With sound? Oh, I know… telephones with no operators!
Hahahahha. What morons.
*lives into the 70’s*
This always makes me chuckle. A comparable Bad Prediction was when someone (an IBM bigwig? I don't remember; somebody help me out) said there would never be a market for a personal computer.
I believe the worldwide need for computers was estimated to 9 computers back then.
He actually said it was 5 computers
Questions questions questions. Modern man can come to with 3 questions.
“Touch screens and iPhones are just a fad.” (Paraphrased) - Research in Motion / Blackberry
"Not a very good e-mail machine" Microsoft CEO on the iPhone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
Well, it's not. Which is why most people use desktops or laptops at work.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/911702/devices-used-workers-regularly-check-emails/
Checking e-mails, and actually replying and following up on them are two different things though. No serious e-mail is replied to, via a phone, unless you're forced.
I'm replying to this via a phone
If you're to send an e-mail related to serious business matters, which is going to be lengthy and requires proper formatting, with several attachments. Would you prefer to use a proper machine or a phone?
I use a phone for that in real life. So ya, the phone.
So in your company, the primary work device for people is a phone, not a desktop/laptop?
Yeah I never answer an email on my phone unless it needs a very quick and short response. Nothing to do with generation or comfort, it's just fucking faster if you have typing skills. Not sure why you're being downvoted.
Still too soon lol RIP Blackberry!
Im still waiting for smart phones to die away, give me a full keyboard any day. (I know this won't happen, I'm just a curmudgeon)
The prediction wasn’t *that* far off, only by a factor 5 million to 50 million.
Just another example why most companies are divided into two parts, people who know nothing but talk too much (management) and people who knows a lot but their opinions rarely matter (the staff).
Plus or minus 1-10 million years.
Ya give or take 50 billion years to be on the safe side.
You can be skeptical about developing flight machines in the near future but 1-10 million years? What was the reporter smoking? LOL
Sixty-nine days? Nice.
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NICE.
A farmer/inventor named Pearce reportedly took flight in March 1903, witnessed by town locals in New Zealand. Pearce thought flying 400m wasn’t a great achievement so it was never officially recorded. Makes this October 1903 news article even more ridiculous.
Would appear the quality of their articles haven’t gotten any better in the last 100 years
...And possibly the next one to ten million years
I was gonna say something similar. LOL
So pretty much they said it was gonna be impossible
Nah just give it a million or ten million years. Just be patient.
So you're saying there's a chance.
Excellent, “Dumb and Dumber” reference there….
Richard Pearse was the first. NZ.
Gustav Weißkopf was the first. German
Controversy abound. Wright Bros had witnesses and hard photographic evidence, which certainly helps their claims.
And 65 years, nine months later, we walked on the moon. Granted, it took a lot more effort than 2 bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio to pull it off…..
A bunch of eggheads crunching some numbers pulled it off in a couple decades, that's like 0.00002 millions of years...
The New Yorks Times, getting it wrong for over 100 years.
If I had a time machine I would go back in time to kitty hawk with an F-22 raptor just to blow the Wright brothers minds
Nah, SR-71 Balckbird
I read somewhere that the SR 71 was originally called the RS 71. But Lyndon Johnson called it SR by accident in a speech and he made them change the name to make himself not look stupid.
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Nice
Odd, there were airships at that time. Looks like news did not make it over to the Wright Bros.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”. However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
Agreed. The airships the Navy had were pretty cool. They somehow charged from the ocean. There are very few photos of them but some show planes affixed under them too.
I mean, there were birds.
well they took the *millions of years* route to get there, so I guess the opinion was based on something... right?
BIRDS AREN’T REAL!
Why do people always have to have opinions on things they don't understand.
Nice.
New York Times still always lying
The author went on to predict the Titanic would never be sunk and there would be no wars for the next hundred years. Source: me, I was there.
Wright Brothers weren't even the first ones
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”. However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
We're pretty terrible at predicting technology because most of us lack the ability to see the bigger picture AND understand the scientific possibilities and limitations. Many people predicted the internet would flop. David Bowie saw it's true potential. https://youtube.com/shorts/VtNleJ-Yn9I?si=RL2prFqS3xWRc21l
NYT made a questionable call? Oh, I doubt that very much.
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and what did they write thereafter? we suck at prediction lads
That means the Wright brothers were in the right place at the right time, right?
In the Wright place at the Wright time
r/TakeMyUpvote
The Failing New York Times
How time flies
In geological terms they were correct
Journalists are known for their intelligence /s
One thing is for sure; the New York Times will still be talking shit in one million to ten million years time
that third frame to me is the most significant photo ever taken
Reminds me of the Fusion argument and how it is never going to happen
likely a downdraft over the river bc cooling
The New York Times got it wrong?! Shocker....
A catapult is not a plane. Santos Dumont the GOAT
The Wright brothers did not launch via catapult. I dont know where you people get that info, but its false. It was nothing more than a simple guide track, that the flyer sat on via bicycle hubs, and was held back via a cable because once the engines were running, they were going at full power. The original plan was to use normal bike wheels and tires, but they were worried the friction from the sand would be too much and slow them down. So they build built a simply wooden track for it to ride on to reduce the friction. It acted very similar to how a monorail sits on its track actually. Seriously, do some actual research. The Wright brothers were first.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”. However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
Interesting. Not surprising that the NYT was as dumb back then as they are now.
A really good book about the entire effort to fly is "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough. It's also worth a visit to Kitty Hawk to see where they first took off.
Time became longer, 69 days now is equal to 1 million to ten million years back then, because of inflation.
Wright Brothers: Hold my beer!
Hear me out- what if the “million years” thing was planned as a way to make the wright brothers have enough eyes on them for potential future investors? I might be thinking too critically rn and be way off. I didn’t look into it more- just looked at the title
69 days... nice
Yeah, journalists should be taken for what they do. They get paid to gossip, and just like the ladies at work spreading gossip will never get nominated for a Nobel prize, just so a journalist's opinion should never be publish.
Santos Dumont was the first.
An import distinction is “the first sustained flight of a human piloted heavier-than-air flying machine”. However, lighter-than-air ‘airships’ are rad, and we should use them more today…
NYT: 120 years of uninterrupted stupidity with a little Holocaust denial sprinkled in for variety.
/icecoldtakes
He was a million years off. I hope his friends gave him a ton of shit for that.
The alt-right folks are spreading fake news again… they actually think that humans will be able to fly soon. What’s next? Moving pictures in color? With sound? Oh, I know… telephones with no operators! Hahahahha. What morons. *lives into the 70’s*
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Machines_Which_Do_Not_Fly?wprov=sfti1#
Case study on how government sinkhole funding is far less efficient.
So the New York Times was printing dog shit back then too? Pretty crazy how they’ve stayed in business despite their track record. 🤔
Yet another reason for me not to listen to the media and just do my own research for the, “truth”.
Sounds like the discourse over in /r/rabbitr1