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Computers Have No Future? Who Says?

April 19, 2006

business communication, computers
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
 
Kenneth Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
 
Computers in the future may weight . . . perhaps only 1.5 tons.
Popular Mechanics, 1949
 
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