predictions
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Thomas Edison Predicted Nobody Would Be Able To Make Phone Calls Across The Atlantic Ocean
Never say never. Thomas Edison was both a great inventor and an amusing prognosticator. But nobody, no matter how smart, knows the future. And that goes for Edison as well. Back in 1894, Edison predicted that transatlantic phone calls would be impossible. But his doubts would prove silly roughly 30 years later when the first…
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Stephen Hawking Was Right To Worry About Our Impending Doom
Physicist Stephen Hawking died yesterday at the age of 76. In the latter stages of his illustrious career, Hawking devoted a considerable amount of time and effort to issuing warnings of future threats – from the perils of climate change and nuclear war through to artificial superintelligence and alien invasions. And for this he was…
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Tech Nerds Who Predicted An Internet Utopia Are Sorry For Being So Wrong
You probably remember those tantalising tech predictions from the 1990s. The world wide web was going to become a paradise for access to information and civil discourse. The internet would allow people of different cultures to come together and learn from each other. The information superhighway was supposed to make our lives so much easier.…
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Worst Psychic Reading Ever: Predictions In CyberSecurity For 2018
What does the future hold? According to security firm Proofpoint, attackers will continue to exploit us fragile and fallible humans to install malware, transfer funds, and steal information. Happy new year!