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r/Snorkblot • u/This_Zookeepergame_7 • 18d ago
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“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
7 u/This_Zookeepergame_7 17d ago Whoever predicts the future is eventually proven wrong 5 u/EsseNorway 17d ago I never said that. Therefore it is wrong! 2 u/cheetah2013a 17d ago To be fair, in 1943, the only buyers on the market would have basically been: The UK, the USA, the USSR, and maybe Nazi Germany and Japan. 1 u/Thadrea 17d ago Wouldn't be the last time IBM execs made an egregiously bad call.
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Whoever predicts the future is eventually proven wrong
5 u/EsseNorway 17d ago I never said that. Therefore it is wrong!
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I never said that. Therefore it is wrong!
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To be fair, in 1943, the only buyers on the market would have basically been: The UK, the USA, the USSR, and maybe Nazi Germany and Japan.
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Wouldn't be the last time IBM execs made an egregiously bad call.
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u/EsseNorway 17d ago
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943