Youre hence cool! When i dont think Ive learn something like that ahead of. Hence good to find someone using a lot of original ideas on this subject issue.

 My limited cranial capacity is lacking in vacant space to store colossal failures quoting a particular technology’s importance; however, I’ve got a prime example of a band wagon technology investment that went horribly wrong. 

As a high school student at the turn of the millennium, I was fortunate to have computers in many of my classroom settings. With the advent of the internet, our course material was ever evolving, and precisely current. As it was, our school board with teaming with technology enthusiasts eager to boast that our school system’s classrooms housed the latest and greatest technological advancements in education. Insert the LASER DISC. I have the time to google the average cost of equipping a classroom with LASER DISC technology, but sadly, I doubt I have the available battery life to do so. Regardless, my high school proudly put a LASER DISC system in each Science and Social Science (history, geography, etc.) classroom. To date, inside those classrooms was the only place I have EVER seen a LASER DISC. Talk about investing in a technology that was virtually DOA (dead on arrival). I’m not sure what was a bigger flop. The LASER DISC, the MINI DISC, or the ZUNE. Sorry I was so late contributing, but you know my story. Hope you had an exceptional weekend and have had a wonderful start to the work week. 

 Hi Griddy,

Sorry joining this party a bit late but I just changed phones and boy I hate doing that, now I need to learn how to use the new one.

Worst predictions ever ? “Nothing heavier than air can fly”Just before the Wright brothers made their first flight in St Louis. The crazy thing is that I have actually met people who will argue it’s true and will never get into a plane. 

Love the messenger boy quote by the British dude. It reminds me of my life in Dubai where every company has an army of drivers which spend their days on the roads to deliver, envelopes, or even better – printed emails ! The day I saw that I was flored. Some guy was writing his email answers,  and then giving them to his PA to print on letterhead paper. This would end up in an envelope which the driver would take across town to the recipient. How to use technology very best.

Anyways, off to organize my weekend
 

TV as vast wasteland.. sorta still true for a snob like me that hates reality programming. 😉 Like all of these and it’s funny — cars, planes, radio, TV, talking in movies, faxing, texting — you name it, people has dismissed it as a passing fancy. I want to say a little over a year ago, folks were wondering “WTH do people need with an overgrown iPhone that’s not a netbook?” as four years before that, they doubted the keyboardless phone. Oh to have invested in Apple. FWIW.

Then there’s a verseBin the Christian bible that says ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’. I think I wrote a post once along the lines of the lyrics of Nas: ‘No ideas original. It’s very seldom someone comes up with new ideas/concepts and breaks open new ground. That’s a ground breaking blogger.

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I like that iPod one! So funny. I did a post on my blog about failed predictions not too long ago. I don’t know if it’s cool to post the link but I’ll share a couple I liked….

“With over fifteen types of foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn’t likely to carve out a big share of the market for itself.” – Business Week, August 2, 1968.

“Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” – Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

Well, back in the day, when Facebook was still a teeny weeny baby, I spent a lot of time speaking to groups about Social Media (mostly from the sociological/cultural perspective) and I told people something along the lines of… “MySpace is a giant. There is no way anyone can touch them”

Um…I was wrong.