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Woozle: /* Links */ removing extra lines (where did those come from?)

2019-02-02T13:01:30Z

Links: removing extra lines (where did those come from?)

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	[[File:B7kMtOoIQAEleqk.jpg-large.jpeg\|thumb\|1999: Amazon hasn't revolutionized the book industry, and probably won't.]]		[[File:B7kMtOoIQAEleqk.jpg-large.jpeg\|thumb\|1999: Amazon hasn't revolutionized the book industry, and probably won't.]]
	* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan]		* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan]



	* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:		* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:
	** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works."		** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works."
	** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."		** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."

	** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.)		** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.)
	* '''2010-09-16'''		* '''2010-09-16'''
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	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.
	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.

			[[Category:Quotes\|Utter bilge]]

	==Notes==		==Notes==

Woozle: Amazon won't revolutionize books

2015-01-18T15:34:07Z

Amazon won't revolutionize books

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	"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]		"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]
	==Links==		==Links==
			[[File:B7kMtOoIQAEleqk.jpg-large.jpeg\|thumb\|1999: Amazon hasn't revolutionized the book industry, and probably won't.]]
	* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan]		* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan]
	** �Television won�t matter in your lifetime or mine.� � Rex Lambert, The Listener, 1936		** �Television won�t matter in your lifetime or mine.� � Rex Lambert, The Listener, 1936

Woozle: /* Links */ television

2013-12-24T22:01:49Z

Links: television

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	"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]		"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]
	==Links==		==Links==
			* '''2013-12-24''' [http://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/24/box-scores/ Television: flash in the pan]



	* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:		* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:
	** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works."		** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works."

Woozle: /* Notes */ another usage of the quote

2013-02-15T15:32:58Z

Notes: another usage of the quote

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	Need to track down this quote: "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors had lied than believe that rocks can fall out of the sky."		Need to track down this quote: "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors had lied than believe that rocks can fall out of the sky." (one usage [http://www.phys-l.org/archives/1999/09_1999/msg00568.html here], from 1999, but no source)

	Also, are there any choice quotations about the impossibility of continental drift?		Also, are there any choice quotations about the impossibility of continental drift?

Woozle: /* Links */ punctuation fixes

2012-02-19T17:29:55Z

Links: punctuation fixes

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	==Links==		==Links==
	* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:		* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:
	** "The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."		** "The truth is, no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher, and no computer network will change the way government works."
	** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."		** "Try reading a book on disc. At best, it's an unpleasant chore: the myopic glow of a clunky computer replaces the friendly pages of a book. And you can't tote that laptop to the beach. Yet Nicholas Negroponte, director of the MIT Media Lab, predicts that we'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Intenet. Uh, sure."
	** "Then there�s cyberbusiness. We�re promised instant catalog shopping�just point and click for great deals. We�ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet�which there isn�t�the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."		** "Then there�s cyberbusiness. We�re promised instant catalog shopping�just point and click for great deals. We�ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does more business in an afternoon than the entire Internet handles in a month? Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the Internet�which there isn�t�the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople."
	** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.)		** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.)

Woozle: /* Links */ Cliff Stoll's predictions

2011-08-31T22:06:09Z

Links: Cliff Stoll's predictions

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	"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]		"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]
	==Links==		==Links==
			* '''2011-08-27''' [http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/08/27/and-the-nostradamus-award-goes-to/ And the Nostradamus Award Goes To...] Clifford Stoll said a number of things in 1995, including:
			** "The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works."


			** (Stoll, at least, has admitted how incredibly wrong he was -- partly because technology moved fast enough to prove this in a mere 15 years or less.)
	* '''2010-09-16'''		* '''2010-09-16'''
	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."
	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.
	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.

	==Notes==		==Notes==
	Need to track down this quote: "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors had lied than believe that rocks can fall out of the sky."		Need to track down this quote: "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors had lied than believe that rocks can fall out of the sky."

	Also, are there any choice quotations about the impossibility of continental drift?		Also, are there any choice quotations about the impossibility of continental drift?

Woozle: meteorites, continental drift

2011-07-26T02:30:09Z

meteorites, continental drift

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	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.
	** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.
			==Notes==
			Need to track down this quote: "I would sooner believe that two Yankee professors had lied than believe that rocks can fall out of the sky."

			Also, are there any choice quotations about the impossibility of continental drift?

Woozle: DEC CEO

2011-02-11T15:19:27Z

DEC CEO

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	"Very interesting, Whittle my dear boy, but it will never work". ''— said to the future Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the modern aircraft jet engine, by his supervisor at Manchester University, upon viewing Whittle's original jet engine design [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/guards-guards.html]''		"Very interesting, Whittle my dear boy, but it will never work". ''— said to the future Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the modern aircraft jet engine, by his supervisor at Manchester University, upon viewing Whittle's original jet engine design [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/guards-guards.html]''

			"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." — Ken Olsen, CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, presumably 1980 [http://www.cringely.com/2011/02/ken-olsen-and-post-industrial-computing/]
	==Links==		==Links==
	* '''2010-09-16'''		* '''2010-09-16'''

Woozle: the invention of digital audio

2010-09-19T22:40:32Z

the invention of digital audio

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	"Very interesting, Whittle my dear boy, but it will never work". ''— said to the future Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the modern aircraft jet engine, by his supervisor at Manchester University, upon viewing Whittle's original jet engine design [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/guards-guards.html]''		"Very interesting, Whittle my dear boy, but it will never work". ''— said to the future Sir Frank Whittle, inventor of the modern aircraft jet engine, by his supervisor at Manchester University, upon viewing Whittle's original jet engine design [http://www.lspace.org/books/apf/guards-guards.html]''
	==Links==		==Links==
	* '''2010-09-16''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."		* '''2010-09-16'''
	* ~~'''2010-09-16'''~~ [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.		** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."
			** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.
			** [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727772.100-zeros-to-heroes-the-long-wait-to-speak-in-code.html Zeros to heroes: The long wait to speak in code]: inventions can be discovered long before the technology exists to implement them. Also, being a mystical kook doesn't automatically invalidate one's inventions, even if the technology doesn't yet exist to implement them.

Woozle: Paul Kammerer

2010-09-19T19:59:23Z

Paul Kammerer

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	==Links==		==Links==
	* '''2010-09-16''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."		* '''2010-09-16''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.700-zeros-to-heroes-the-man-who-learned-to-fly.html Zeros to heroes: The man who learned to fly]: "During the 18th and 19th centuries, scientists and the public all believed that it was not only impossible to fly using an artificial wing, but an act of folly to suggest that you could. This did not discourage the English gentleman scientist George Cayley, even though his contemporaries - including his own son - were embarrassed by his efforts."
			* '''2010-09-16''' [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727771.600-zeros-to-heroes-the-tragic-fate-of-a-genetic-pioneer.html Zeros to heroes: The tragic fate of a genetic pioneer]: this one's a little complicated. In 1926, Paul Kammerer makes observations which appear to support Lamarckianism. Kammerer was prominently condemned as a fraud (reason not stated), and killed himself six weeks later. In 1971 Arthur Koestler argues that Kammerer's experiments may have been tampered with for political reasons. In 2009, Alex Vargas reexamines Kammerer's work and pronounces it not fraudulent at all, but actually consistent with the then-undiscovered field of epigenetics.