23 high-profile prediction that fell flat

• 23 high-profile prediction that fell flat

Fortunately (at least - unfortunately) for us, not all "one hundred percent" projections even the most authoritative experts are correct. Here are a few striking examples:

"Who wants to hear actors speaking in the movie?" - said at the time the founder of the film company Warner Brothers Harry Warner.

"By June, all this will end," - wrote Variety Magazine magazine about the future of rock 'n' roll in 1955.

"It soon became clear that the x-ray - it's just a joke", - assured in 1883 the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin.

"The rocket will never be able to escape from the Earth's atmosphere," - believed in 1936 in the New York Times.

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut for human surgical intervention", - said the eminent British surgeon Sir John Eric Ericksen in 1870.

"No one will ever be able to build large aircraft", - said an engineer Boeing soon after the twin-engine aircraft that can lift only 10 people.

"There is no hope that nuclear energy will ever be available. This would mean that the atom can be split by the human desire, "- this is the rare case when Albert Einstein was wrong. He said this in 1932.

"Anyone even slightly familiar with the topic, understand that it is an inevitable failure," - said at the time president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, Henry Morton of Edison's light bulb.

"The horse will always be, and the car - it's just a fun, temporary fad" - these words in 1903, the bank's president Michigan Savings Bank tried to convince the lawyers - advisers Henry Ford did not invest in the company Ford Motor Company.

"Television is a long time not survive. People will soon get tired every night to look at a plywood box, "- said the film producer Darryl Zanuck in 1946.

"Rail travel at high speed is impossible, since in this case the passengers will not be able to breathe and die of asphyxiation", - concluded in 1823 a professor of natural sciences and astronomy Dr. Dionysius Lardner.

"A man is not and never will be no need to keep the computer in their home," - said the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, Ken Olson, addressing a speech to the World Future Society in 1977.

"The potential world market photocopiers - a maximum of 5,000 pieces," - said in the future founder of the Xerox IBM, believing that consumers photocopiers enough lots for mass production.

"Children are no longer interested in stories about wizards and witches" - JK Rowling heard from the first publisher to whom addressed in hopes to publish his "Harry Potter".

"If excessive addiction to smoking, and plays a role in lung cancer development, it is very small," - said William K. Hyuper from the US National Cancer Institute in 1954.

"No, it would make war impossible," said the inventor Hiram Maxim machine gun when he was asked how his invention would change the war - whether they will be more of this terrible, or vice versa, less scary?

"The wireless music box has no commercial value. Who wants to pay for a message sent to no one ", - he said on the radio partners David Sarnow in 1921.

"Astronomy closer to the limit of knowledge, which it can reach," - said the US-Canadian astronomer Simon Newcomb. He was convinced that we have learned about astronomy everything we could, as early as 1888.