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Deborah-Leigh:
http://www.keelynet.com/shoulders/

"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --- (Western Union internal memo, 1876)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --- (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)

"The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." -- Adm. William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Energy Project, 1945.

"Landing and moving around on the moon offer so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them." -- Science Digest, August, 1948.

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." --- (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

cjwood:
ahh, the knowledge of man.  NOT!!! 

thanks deb for the read.  wouldn't those older fellas be knocked out of their socks if they could see what technology was like in 2014.   :D

claudia

Rhys 🕊:
Excellent stuff.....you never know what can be so just believe

From the website mentioned:

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --- (Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)

After watching some TV I think this one is true  :D :D :D


Rhys  ;)

Kat:

Does these very things that have unexpectedly burst forth into our lives as ways and means to have increase in knowledge and run to and fro have a significance? It does have a certain familiarity to it.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

zvezda:
Yes, Kat. I often find it amazing that some prophecies are fulfilled by the internet.
Knowledge shall increase (Daniel 12:4) - thanks to the internet.
Increase of wickedness (Matthew 24:12) - thanks to the internet, I've written a post about this (http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,14893.msg137794.html#msg137794).
While "run to and fro" might refer to traveling is much easier today, I wonder if it could also refer to surfing the web, after all, the internet is also called world wide web (www), and as we know the scripture is not always literal.

when I look at the development of the internet, I see the similarity. If you remember the beginning of the internet age, we used dial-up, we needed cables and wires to connect computers, monitors were bulky. Then we have broadband with faster speed, smaller computers, thinner monitors, then we have wireless, much much smaller computers (smart phones, tablets). Wireless signals are invisible. Now students can take online courses, no need to be in classrooms physically. Employees can work remotely via internet, no need to be in offices physically. We talk online and we are invisible to each other. This process of going from visible to invisible, it's like a shadow of going from physical to spiritual.

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