The Machine That Fooled a City: Charles Redheffer’s Perpetual Motion Con
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10 Predictions For The Future That Missed The Mark
— June 13, 2014 Comments Off on 10 Predictions For The Future That Missed The Mark 56065. Computers
Here’s one where technology actually overshot expectations rather dramatically. In 1949, when computers were in their infancy, Popular Mechanics wrote that, “Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh only 1½ tons.” That would be one heck of a heavy iPhone!
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